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    Government to ease compliance burden in telecom sector

    • 16.02.2023
    • Telecom.com/EconomicTimes

    "Some work is being done to actually simplify the licenses required for small-sized companies. It is like a procedural reform," DoT secretary K Rajaraman old ETTelecom, adding that the entire process may take about 3 to 4 months to conclude.

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    NBCUniversal Grants $119K to Alliance for Media Arts + Culture to Boost Diversity in Creative Marketing

    • 15.02.2023
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    NBCUniversal has partnered with the Alliance for Media Arts + Culture to build on the company’s Creative Impact Lab. The Lab, launched last September, is meant to boost diversity in the creative marketing field by giving apprentices from historically excluded backgrounds the opportunity to develop marketing assets for NBCU’s nonprofit partners, with guidance from employee volunteers. These spots are then seen on Comcast NBCU’s various networks and platforms.

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    Extreme-Down: ACE Shuts Down Major Pirate Site After 15 Years of Resilience

    • 15.02.2023
    • TorrentFreak

    After being targeted in French courts by movie companies, blocked by French ISPs, and then deindexed by Google, illegal streaming/DDL site Extreme-Down burned domain after domain in an effort to stay in the game. Ending 15 years of resilience, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment has shut down the site following a mission to Africa.

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    Efforts afoot for in-built TV sat tuners to ease access to FreeDish: Thakur

    • 15.02.2023
    • IBW News

    nformation and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur yesterday said efforts are afoot to have a built-in satellite tuner in television sets to offer access to over 200 channels, a move that could make set-top boxes redundant. He said there has been a humongous expansion of general entertainment channels on Doordashan FreeDish, which has helped attract crores of viewers, according to a PTI report from Mumbai.

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    DoT asks Trai to add stricter benchmark in telecom service quality norms

    • 15.02.2023
    • Telecom.com/EconomicTimes

    "Quality of service is very important for customer satisfaction and protection of their interests. DoT has requested Trai for improvement in the present quality of service (QoS) through more stringent parameters," an official said.

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    Guest Column: How the Use of Open Captions Can Enhance Creativity, Not Just Accessibility

    • 15.02.2023
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    A year ago, amid CODA’s groundbreaking run on the awards circuit, writer/director Sian Heder frequently expressed her hopes that the film’s success could be one of the “rocks that starts the avalanche” of the wealth of talent that exists within the Deaf community, heralding a new wave of deaf talent in Hollywood not only in front of but behind the camera as well.

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    IPTV Piracy: Cloudflare Says Thousands of Legal Sites Blocked Multiple Times

    • 15.02.2023
    • TorrentFreak

    In submissions to the European Commission, rightsholders insist that intermediaries must kill pirate IPTV streams within minutes and proactive internet blocking should be ramped up across Europe. In its submission to the EC, Cloudflare reveals that a voluntary site-blocking program in a member state saw an ISP block thousands of entirely legal sites, on several separate occasions.

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    Govt report suggests regulating OTT platforms for tobacco ads

    • 14.02.2023
    • LiveMint

    The health ministry proposes to include video streaming platforms under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA), 2003, to ensure they carry public health warnings related to smoking and alcohol use, similar to those shown on TV programmes and movies.

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    Global Content Piracy Soared 18% in 2022

    • 14.02.2023
    • Variety

    After dipping during the great COVID lockdown, media piracy has come roaring back. The proliferation of popular streaming TV content and the return of robust wide-release film slates have helped drive steady increases in illicit viewing since 2020, according to exclusive data from piracy-focused research firm Muso.

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    We aim to further build the economic muscle for our sports business: Punit Goenka

    • 14.02.2023
    • exchange4media

    Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) has made good progress in Q3 FY23 with a healthy growth in the digital business and gains in some of the key channels, said MD & CEO Punit Goenka during the earnings calls for the quarter. “This mirrors the success of the team's concerted efforts to strengthen our offerings across markets and we continue to maintain sharp focus on delivering a robust content slate to consumers,” said Goenka.

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