The minister of information and broadcasting Anurag Thakur told the Lok Sabha that the Broadcast Audience Research Council (Barc) India is reaching out to all constituents to sufficiently inform and educate them about new augmented data reporting standards and would require eight weeks’ time to resume the reporting of individual news channels
Disney CEO Bob Chapek has said Disney+ will achieve its stated goal of attaining 230-260 million subscribers even if it doesn't win the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) media rights. Chapek noted that sports is a strategic offering for Disney+ Hotstar and the company will try to retain the IPL rights.
Sony Pictures Television and WarnerMedia have extended a content deal that will see the likes of Spider Man: No Way Home and Ghostbusters: Afterlife made available on HBO Max and HBO channels across Central Eastern Europe.
Disney CFO Christine McCarthy warned that carriage costs for pay-TV bundle Hulu + Live TV would drive an $800 million to $1 billion increase in streaming costs during the current quarter.
Disney+ subscribers in the U.S. and Canada account for a third, or 42.9 million, of the streamer’s total 129.8 million subscribers, the company revealed for the first time Wednesday as part of its Q4 earnings.
In recent months, Google has removed all search results from popular pirate site domains in several countries. The search engine voluntarily deindexed these sites after it was informed about local ISP blocking orders. The removals have also reached the UK now but, interestingly, The Pirate Bay appears to have been overlooked by the rightsholders.
Omi in a Hellcat', a YouTuber who previously operated several pirate IPTV services, says he will plead guilty to a federal indictment accusing him of criminal copyright infringement, tax fraud, wire fraud, among others. Following earlier intransigence, he now appears to be spreading an anti-piracy message
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.
Prasar Bharati has issued a notice inviting applications from broadcasters for allotment of MPEG-2 slots of DD Free Dish DTH Platform for the period from 1st April 2022 to 31st March 2023. The slots will be awarded through the fourth annual e-auction process to be tentatively held from 7th March.
DE-CIX, an interconnection operator, is seeing high growth in customer additions in India on the back of rising data consumptions.