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Voot Studio collaborates with German broadcaster Deutsche Welle

Recognized for catering to its audiences’ needs with engaging content across formats and genres, Voot’s brand solutions arm, Voot Studios, for the second year in a row, has partnered with German broadcaster, Deutsche Welle. To showcase varied content, starting from June 17, Voot will stream ‘Choices’, exclusively for its users. A seven-epi...

US Major League Soccer’s new home is Apple TV

Apple and Major League Soccer (MLS) have announced that the Apple TV app will be the exclusive destination to watch every single live MLS match beginning in 2023 in the US.

This partnership is a historic first for a major professional sports league, and will allow fans around the wor...

OTTplay Premium debuts with 5 subscription packs

After helping more than five million Indians navigate the complex landscape of OTT content with AI-based personalized recommendations every month, aggregator OTTplay is now making its foray into OTT content streaming with the launch of OTTplay Premium-bundled subscription packs. The five carefully curated subscription packs not only bring tog...

Govt. approves 5G spectrum auction; allows tech cos’ entry

The Indian government on Wednesday approved a proposal to conduct 5G spectrum auction by July-end, while stating that part of the bandwidth would be reserved for private captive networks to spur a new wave of innovations. Until now, according to Reuters, India's telecoms services have been run by specialist companies in a market dominated by ...

Media, ad experts divided over IPL media rights bid prices

The humongous sum of Rs 48,390 crore (approximately $ 6.2 billion) fetched from media rights of IPL cricket has divided industry experts, with some feeling that the market can easily absorb it, while others said anything 'puffy and inflated' puts pressure on the sport. For advertisers, two separate entities bagging the TV and digital rights a...

Airtel Xstream to target 20mn paid subs; up regional content game

Telecom operator Bharti Airtel has said its video streaming service, Airtel Xstream, has achieved a two million paid subscriber mark, demonstrating a strong pace of growth as an OTT aggregator platform.

Airtel Xstream offers a bouquet of OTT platforms to consumers across mobile and large screen formats.

“We are the fas...

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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!