Mumbai (ANI) May 02, 2025 (ANI): Chris Ripley, President and CEO of Sinclair Inc., expressed strong appreciation for India’s expanding media and entertainment ecosystem during the Waves Summit 2025 held in Mumbai. Chris Ripley said, “This is the first Waves Summit, and my hats off to the Indian Government and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. They've truly opened up exciting opportunities for foreign investors and global media companies to collaborate, explore, and participate in India's dynamic creative economy. Our primary focus here is on content distribution. We are also exploring partnerships with innovative Indian entities like Prasar Bharati, IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur, Intel and others. We are in the process of rolling out devices capable of receiving and streaming video content without any additional processing, which we believe will be a game-changer...”
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00:00My hat's off to the Indian government and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
00:04for putting on a terrific event.
00:06It's really opening up new opportunities for foreign investors,
00:11collaboration across media companies across the globe to come here
00:16and discover everything that's going on in the creative economy here in India.
00:21We are primarily focused on distribution here in India.
00:25So we are working with other innovative companies like Prasar Bharti,
00:31institutions here like IIT Bombay, IIT Kampur, Intel, HMD, Lava.
00:40This is the first inaugural Waves conference and my hat's off to the Indian government
00:46and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting for putting on a terrific event.
00:50It's really opening up new opportunities for foreign investors,
00:55collaboration across media companies across the globe to come here
01:00and discover everything that's going on in the creative economy here in India.
01:06Sinclair is a very big group, media group in the United States.
01:11So how do you find your entry to the Indian market?
01:15Which sector are you looking for?
01:17We are primarily focused on distribution here in India.
01:21So we are working with other innovative companies like Prasar Bharti,
01:26institutions here like IIT Bombay, IIT Kampur, Intel, HMD, Lava.
01:36And we are rolling out devices that can be receiving content with no data plan required,
01:45no additional cost to the consumer to consume streaming video.
01:50And that's really our primary focus here in India.
01:55The Indian government is more focusing on making India, creating India.
02:00So how do the international players saw this kind of narrative of the Indian government?
02:05Do you find it positive or more competitive with the Indian players?
02:10I think there's a lot of opportunity to take what is going on in India and use it elsewhere in the world.
02:16The depth of the culture and the history here, the stories going back thousands of years,
02:23can be adapted to markets around the world.
02:27And with AI tools and increases in technology and on the distribution side and the production side,
02:36being able to export those to other markets I think will be increasingly achievable.
02:43how do people know they may come up with that.
02:44What do they think?
02:45Will we have a really good feeling of using the mugs and services that have been used for this kind of modern technology so that they have not been able to use the palestine?
02:46So the透明 thing is that even more people should have been perceived.
02:51We can't even see them on the market, we can't even see them on the market.
02:56OK, we can see them on the market.
03:00We'll be able to implement these things on the market.
03:02The leaders of the media欸, we'll be able to produce.
03:05So the people who have been able to pay them back the market.
03:08That's a great way to go to the extent,