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BARC: TV ads volumes post strong growth July-Sept’21

Ad volumes on TV continued to post a healthy growth, with the July-Sept quarter registering 461 million seconds of advertising, which is the highest this year, new data from BARC India said Thursday.

According to July-

New movies boost HBO Max; parent AT&T adds wireless subs in 5G push

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Aavishkar Dish Antenna Sangh, ALCOA urge consumer awareness on NTO 2.0 before implementation

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TN digital cable TV operators’ body sends legal notice to TRAI

The Tamil Nadu Digital Cable TV Operators Association, a lobbying body for cable TV networks in the south Indian State of Tamil Nadu, has sent a legal notice to regulator TRAI urging it to direct the pay TV broadcasters to desist from increasing the TV channels’ prices as it w...

Disney pushes back release dates for big-ticket films

Walt Disney Co. has delayed the release of Marvel Studios' sequels to "Black Panther," "Thor"and "Doctor Strange" by several months and pushed the next big-screen outing for adventure...

Zee announces channel rates; keeps Zee TV, some driver channels out of bouquets

Zee Entertainment announced Sunday the rates of its TV channels to conform to regulator TRAI’s tariff regime (NTO 2.0), but has priced some driver channels like Zee TV and Zee Bangla (both SD and HD versions) o...

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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!