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BARC Rating 5th Week: Sun TV maintains lead position in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 5th Week (29th January – 4th February 2022) has released its report. In India, Tamil GEC Sun TV was the most viewed channel in the fifth week of January, the channel garnered 2700.09 impressions, slightly lower than the last week’s 2774.35. Star Utsav has bagged the second position with 2625.86...

NBF fires another salvo at BARC India

The News Broadcasters Federation (NBF), an Indian TV news industry body, has shot off another missive to audience ratings organization BARC India, accusing the latter of nepotism, obfuscating issues and defying directives of the government.

“History is being wiped out in total disreg...

62 TV channels, 76 shows made accessible to differently-abled people: Thakur

The Indian government has said that 62 TV news channels and 76 television programmes have followed the ‘Accessibility Standards’ under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 for electronic media to carry captions in the same language or have sign language facility.

“As per...

‘Love, Victor’ to end with S3

American streaming service Hulu has announced that the popular young adult series ‘Love, Victor’ will end with its upcoming third season.

According to PTI, Hulu shared the news during its Television Critics Association (TCA) presentation on Tuesday.

Apple announces new tap to pay feature

American tech company Apple announced a new tap to pay feature on the iPhone which will allow merchants to use their iPhones as a point of sales terminal. According to ANI, the new service will come to the US first later this year with an iOS software...

Kerala HC upholds MediaOne security clearance denial by govt.

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday said the denial of security clearance to Malayalam news channel MediaOne by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) was "justified" and upheld the federal government’s decision to ban its telecast.

Justice N Nagaresh also declined to keep his order in

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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!