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WarnerMedia announces senior content hires in Asia

WarnerMedia on Friday announced three senior content hires in Asia to bolster its original productions teams in advance of the launch of HBO Max in the region. In the Singapore-based team, Mark Francis has been appointed group lead of production and development (s...

Discovery+ launches ‘Dangals of Crime’

Discovery+ has launched India’s original investigative documentary series ‘Dangals of Crime: The Untold Truth About Indian Wrestling’. The series traces the meteoric rise of the Olympic sport, in which India has seven summer Olympics medals, and a...

Chad Matthews named president of ABC-owned TV stations

ABC Owned Television Stations has announced the appointment of Chad Matthews as its new president, effective immediately. He takes over the position vacated by Wendy McMahon, who exited the company last year. Debra OConnell, who is president o...

Lionsgate Play renews ‘Hiccups and Hookups’ S2

Streaming service Lionsgate Play on Friday announced the second season of popular series ‘Hiccups and Hookups’.

Starring Lara Dutta and Prateik Babbar, the first season

‘Toofan’ world TV premiere on &pictures

Hindi movie channel &pictures are ready to premiere the Farhan Akhtar sports drama film, ‘Toofaan’ on January 30 at 5:00 pm. The film was earlier released on Amazon Prime Video. The film ...

Twitter introduces ‘Flock Feature’ to all users

Micro-blogging site Twitter is working on a new feature called ‘Flock’ to allow users to post tweets to a specific group of people. The feature is similar to Instagram’s ‘Close Friends’ that lets users post stories to a group of closest friends, away...

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“This initiative will empower subscribers to pay online and subscribe to the channels they want to watch and get it activated on their TV sets in real-time without any delay. Without needing to undertake any software development, LMOs can approach Mobiezy for their pre-built and pre-integrated solution that uses NXTDigital’s news APIs and can be up and running with their own mobile apps within just a few days.”

RU Ediriwira, Group CTO, NXTDigital Limited

“With the launch of Partnership for Growth 3.0 we intend to expand our network with 40 new NXTHUBs, each offering up to 650 live TV channels and broadband. Our efforts are focused on harnessing the convergence of technologies, developing robust apps and creating new business models that will help the overall ecosystem, delivering the best experience to our subscribers. We hope to achieve a stronger foothold in the rural regions of the country and grow our subscriber base.”

N.K. Rouse, COO, NXT Digital Ltd

“One of the key principles of the Hinduja Group is ‘Partnership for Growth’. After 2.0 saw the launch of HITS to connect LMOs in even the most remote locations through the only satellite-based cable TV platform in India; 3.0 focuses not just on strengthening the overall ecosystem we have built, but harnessing the convergence of technologies – to be delivered through a national network of NXTHUBs. Video and broadband are only the beginning of the digital highway of services that we have developed for roll-out backed by a robust suite of innovative apps developed by service providers exclusively for our LMOs and subscribers.”

Vynsley Fernandes, MD & CEO, NXTDigital Limited

“Wireline broadband is becoming ever more important not only in connecting homes across the country but also small to large enterprises-to the digital economy. The NXTHUBs will be the perfect point-of-presence to offer broadband services to cater to these consumer needs.”

Yugal Kishore Sharma CEO, ONEOTT Intertainment Limited

Amazing and grim battle for survival. Guess it will end up in Supreme Court. All that NCLT asked Zee to do was to file a reply to Invesco petition for a EGM. Now this is getting too serious. So far Invesco has been hammered for demanding an EGM. What is Zee upto? Ofcourse my lawyer community knows better!