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    South films regain 80% of pre-covid biz

    • 29.08.2022
    • LiveMint

    Telugu producers have agreed on an 8-week window for premieres on OTT, and asked multiplexes to cut ticket prices

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    California’s $330M Annual Film & TV Tax Credits Bill Placed On Hold

    • 26.08.2022
    • Deadline

    A California Senate bill extending the $330 million annual film and TV tax credit until 2030 was placed in the inactive file for this legislative session Thursday at the request of its lead author, state Sen. Anthony Portantino (D-Burbank).

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    ‘Pirate’ App Developer Uses DMCA to Remove ‘Stolen’ Copy from GitHub

    • 26.08.2022
    • TorrentFreak

    "Movies and Series Scraper" is a nifty tool that allows people to watch and download films and TV series without much hassle. The developer shares the code for free, but when he noticed that someone had "stolen" his work, he asked GitHub to remove the infringing copy from the platform.

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    Asian Film Studios and Location Incentives Growing Hand in Hand

    • 26.08.2022
    • Variety

    “Incentives are fundamental, they are an expectation [of production managers] and having one is no longer a USP,” said Rashid Karim, CEO of Iskandar Malaysia Studios. He was speaking at the Content Asia summit conference in Bangkok on Thursday.

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    YouTube’s Speed Freaks: Users Overall Save Average of 900 Years per Day Watching Videos at Faster Playback Speeds

    • 26.08.2022
    • Variety

    YouTube is reminding everyone that it offers variable playback speeds — which can add up to a ton of time savings if you’re able to keep pace with life in the fast lane.

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    TRAI OHD on new regulations for b’cast, cable on Sept 8

    • 26.08.2022
    • IBW News

    An Open House Discussion (OHD) on the Consultation Paper on “Issues related to New Regulatory Framework for Broadcasting and Cable services”, which was scheduled to be held in July 2022 has now been scheduled on September 8.

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    The economics of landing page, and what’s driving up the cost

    • 26.08.2022
    • exchange4media

    Landing page, the first channel that gets displayed when a viewer switches on the TV, has divided the TV news industry. While some call it an unethical practice, others term it a legitimate distribution tactic to attract more audiences.

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    5G service will be available in most part of the country in 2-3 years: Ashwini Vaishnaw

    • 26.08.2022
    • Telecom.com/EconomicTimes

    The high-speed 5G services, which will be available in most part of the country in two three years, are expected to remain affordable, telecom minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday

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    India’s biggest music label moves from melody to movies

    • 26.08.2022
    • LiveMint

    For many Indians, T-Series is a brand that means music—whether you are the cassette-hoarding ‘jhankar beats’ listener from the 1990s or the GenZer tripping on YouTube shorts. But Bhushan Kumar, chairman and managing director of Super Cassettes Industries Ltd, wants it to be the talk of the town not just for melody, but also the movies.

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    YouTube’s ad revenue growth will shrink to 7.3% in 2022 from 46% in 2021: WARC

    • 25.08.2022
    • BestMediaInfo

    WARC believes that Apple’s privacy push – aside from Google’s delayed move to block third-party cookies from its Chrome browser (66% global market share) – will remove close to $40 billion from the bottom line of social media companies over the course of this year and next

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