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Prasar Bharati ‘NewsOnAir’ app popular beyond India

India’s national broadcaster Prasar Bharati’s mobile application, ‘NewsOnAir’, accounted for the highest digital audience in France apart from India, and followed by the USA, Australia, United Kingdom, Fiji, Canada, UAE, New Zealand, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia.

Apart from being a wi...

Red FM is ready to launch their Podcast with ‘The Voice Of Fashion’

93.5 RED FM has collaborated with The Voice of Fashion, an online fashion and design magazine to announce a fashion podcast, Shop Talk. Hosted by The Voice of Fashion’s Editor, Shefalee Vasudev, the podcast will have exciting conversations around meaning, memory, and material of fashion. The

Radio City Join hands with Mumbai Indians

Radio City has announced its partnership with Mumbai Indians. The company has been signed as one of the official partners of the IPL team. To blemish its decade-long association with the 5 t...

AIR pushes for digital radio as 2.5 mn cars have DRM receivers

India is stepping on the gas pedal where digital radio is concerned with pubcaster All India Radio taking the lead and approximately 2.5 million cars fitted with DRM (digital radio mondiale) receivers, a fact that not many car users are unaware of.

Though DRM as a tech is not new, ea...

Prasar Bharati’s `NewsOn Air’ app shows strong growth

The official Prasar Bharati app ‘NewsOnAir’ saw 2.5 million users joining the platform in 2020. At present, the platform has over 300 million views with live radio streaming being the most popular feature, with more than 200 streams, according to a top government official.

While maki...

Indian radio segment’s revenues fell 54% in 2020

Indian radio segment revenues fell 54% in 2020 to INR 14.3 billion, while ad volumes fell 27% and skewed towards non-metros, while rates fell over 37% on an average, according to the Ficci-E&Y Indian media and entertainment report.

As live event revenues faltered due to the pande...

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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!