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Lucknow tunes into AIR digital streams as State went to polls

In one of the top 10 cities featured in latest NewsOnAir rankings Lucknow, Vividh Bharati National, AIR Lucknow, FM Rainbow Lucknow, AIR Varanasi, FM Gold Delhi, AIR News 24x7, AIR Raagam, AIR Agra, AIR Chhatarpur and AIR Visakhapatnam came out as popular radio streams.

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India pledges supports to ITU South Asia presence

International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is all set to open an area office in New Delhi by mid-2022 that will enhance regional initiatives for sustainable and inclusive digital transformation

The Indian Government will fund a new Area Office for the ITU to foster digital technolog...

Discovery appoints Tushar Singh as product director.

American pay television network and flagship channel Discovery has announced the appointment of Tushar Singh as product director. The news was shared by Tushar himself on his LinkedIn account. Tushar will be heading up D2C products a...

B’cast hardware local manufacturing should be of global standards: Ficci

An Indian chamber of commerce, Ficci, has said that while there is hardly “any market for local manufacturing” of the broadcasting equipment, it should be a focus area that should keep evolving as technology marches globally.

“The idea is to promote manufacturing, which can keep pace...

TV9 appoints Sandeep Unnithan as editor News9 Plus

TV9 Network has appointed India Today's Managing Editor Sandeep Unnithan as the editor of News9 Plus - the recent video magazine OTT service by the network. The network also appoints television journalist Aditya Raj Kaul has joined as Executive Editor, News9 Plus, and investigative journalist Sandhya Ravishankar has been appointed Chief of Bu...

Google, FB top India digital rankings in Jan-22: comscore

Tech giants Google and Facebook are in pole positions in the Top 10 list of digital companies in India in terms of total unique visitors/ viewers and reach, according to Comscore Digital Rankings for January 2022.

Google tops the list with 474,886 (000) total

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“This initiative will empower subscribers to pay online and subscribe to the channels they want to watch and get it activated on their TV sets in real-time without any delay. Without needing to undertake any software development, LMOs can approach Mobiezy for their pre-built and pre-integrated solution that uses NXTDigital’s news APIs and can be up and running with their own mobile apps within just a few days.”

RU Ediriwira, Group CTO, NXTDigital Limited

“With the launch of Partnership for Growth 3.0 we intend to expand our network with 40 new NXTHUBs, each offering up to 650 live TV channels and broadband. Our efforts are focused on harnessing the convergence of technologies, developing robust apps and creating new business models that will help the overall ecosystem, delivering the best experience to our subscribers. We hope to achieve a stronger foothold in the rural regions of the country and grow our subscriber base.”

N.K. Rouse, COO, NXT Digital Ltd

“One of the key principles of the Hinduja Group is ‘Partnership for Growth’. After 2.0 saw the launch of HITS to connect LMOs in even the most remote locations through the only satellite-based cable TV platform in India; 3.0 focuses not just on strengthening the overall ecosystem we have built, but harnessing the convergence of technologies – to be delivered through a national network of NXTHUBs. Video and broadband are only the beginning of the digital highway of services that we have developed for roll-out backed by a robust suite of innovative apps developed by service providers exclusively for our LMOs and subscribers.”

Vynsley Fernandes, MD & CEO, NXTDigital Limited

“Wireline broadband is becoming ever more important not only in connecting homes across the country but also small to large enterprises-to the digital economy. The NXTHUBs will be the perfect point-of-presence to offer broadband services to cater to these consumer needs.”

Yugal Kishore Sharma CEO, ONEOTT Intertainment Limited

Amazing and grim battle for survival. Guess it will end up in Supreme Court. All that NCLT asked Zee to do was to file a reply to Invesco petition for a EGM. Now this is getting too serious. So far Invesco has been hammered for demanding an EGM. What is Zee upto? Ofcourse my lawyer community knows better!