{"id":1039587,"date":"2026-09-30T08:35:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039587"},"modified":"2026-09-30T08:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:06:06","slug":"indias-media-moment-is-about-tv-and-mobile-convergence-not-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/30\/indias-media-moment-is-about-tv-and-mobile-convergence-not-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s media moment is about TV and mobile convergence, not replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Television, streaming, mobile and connected TV are increasingly converging rather than replacing one another as Indian viewers move between screens, FICCI Media &amp; Entertainment Committee chairman and CEO entertainment at JioStar, Kevin Vaz said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Vaz&#8217;s comments come as traditional TV distributors turn to app-based delivery of linear channels to adapt to changing viewing habits. Dish TV-owned Vzy has launched an app offering more than 200 live TV channels alongside 29+ OTT platforms, while Tata Play, Sun Direct and GTPL Hathway are testing similar services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Television, streaming, mobile and connected TV are increasingly converging rather than replacing one another as Indian viewers move between screens, FICCI Media &amp; Entertainment Committee chairman and CEO entertainment at JioStar, Kevin Vaz said on Tuesday. Vaz&#8217;s comments come as traditional TV distributors turn to app-based delivery of linear channels to adapt to changing viewing habits. Dish TV-owned Vzy has launched an app offering more than 200 live TV channels alongside 29+ OTT platforms, while Tata Play, Sun Direct and GTPL Hathway are testing similar services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039614,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039587\/revisions\/1039614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}