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Diamond Sports group secures NBA, NHL b’cast deals

Diamond Sports Group will continue to carry local game broadcasts for 20 NBA and NHL teams in the 2024-25 season. Diamond reached agreements with the NBA and NHL that were disclosed Friday in filings with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern Distri...

WBD sues NBA over contract dispute

Warner Bros Discovery and its sports division, Turner Broadcasting System, filed a lawsuit on Friday against the National Basketball Association in New York over the league's rejection of its matching bid for media rights. The media company accused the NBA's refusal to honor its right to match offers from a third party violates its agreement ...

Amazon Prime Video, NBA ink 11-year global media rights deal in 2025

Amazon Prime Video and the National Basketball Association (NBA) on Thursday announced a historic 11-year media rights agreement set to commence with the 2025-26 NBA season. This unprecedented deal marks a significant shift in sports broadcasting, positioning Amazon Prime Video as a primary global platform for NBA content. Under the terms of ...

NBA TV rights talks with Disney, Warner expected to collapse: CNBC

The National Basketball Association's exclusive media rights negotiating period with current partners Walt Disney and Warner Bros Discovery is likely to expire without a new deal on Monday, CNBC reported on Thursday. NBA will be ab...

Viacom18, NBA announce multiyear broadcast and streaming partnership in India

Viacom18 and The National Basketball Association (NBA) on Friday announced a multi-year partnership to deliver live NBA games and programming to fans in India across television and over-the-top streaming. As NBA held its 75th Anniversary Season in 2021-22, Viacom18 as part of the partnership enable...

Supreme Court posts TRAI tariff case for Nov 30 final hearing

After a couple of postponements, the case pertaining to broadcasters’ challenge of sector regulator TRAI’s tariff regulations, was taken up briefly at the Supreme Court on October 1 and, after some directions, was posted for a hearing on ...

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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!