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Akshay Kumar, Emraan Hashmi’s ‘Selfiee’ starts filming

Bollywood banner Dharma Productions on Thursday announced that the upcoming film ‘Selfiee’, starring Akshay Kumar and Emraan Hashmi, has started filming. The drama-comedy, being directed by Raj Mehta of ‘Good Newwz’ fame, is a remake of 2019 Malayalam-language comedy-drama Driving Licence. The Karan Johar-led Dharma Produ...

Q Marathi announces new content line-up

In a bid to introduce fresh zest to the Marathi GEC category with a differentiated and disruptive content strategy, Q Marathi, a family-oriented Marathi GEC is all set to entertain its viewers from March 15, 2022; with an exciting and strategically curated programming line-up. The launch of Q Marathi, a Free-To-Air channel marks QYOU Media’s ...

BARC Rating 9th Week: Sun TV maintains lead position in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 9th Week (26th February – 4th March 2022) has released its report. In India, Tamil GEC Sun TV was the most viewed channel in the ninth week of March, the channel garnered 2543.24 impressions. Star Maa has bagged the second position with 2464.32 impressions and Star Utsav has taken the third pos...

Approach Bollywood launches digital campaign

India’s leading Bollywood and Entertainment Newswire, Approach Bollywood has launched its quirky digital campaign ‘Holi Kab Hai, Kab Hai Holi’. The digital campaign will run on social media till Holi. The digital campaign will also give a social message of ‘Don’t Drink & Drive’ in one of its ads. The campaign has been...

Amazon poised to get EU antitrust okay for MGM buyout

Amazon is expected to win unconditional European Union (EU) antitrust approval for its $8.5 billion buy of US movie studio MGM, people familiar with the matter said, a move that is set to ramp up competition with streaming rivals Netflix and Disney+.

Announced in May last year, the d...

Rishi’s last film ‘Sharmaji Namkeen’ to release on Prime Video

Bollywood star Rishi Kapoor's swansong ‘Sharmaji Namkeen' is set to release on Amazon Prime Video on March 31. Directed by Hitesh Bhatia, the movie will release on the streaming service as an Amazon original movie. Prime Video and Excel Entertainment

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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!