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ColorsTV unveils promo of ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi 12’

The Indian pay television GEC channel Colors TV unveiled the promo of ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi 12’, featuring action-director Rohit Shetty as a host for the stunt-based reality show. The season has been shot in Cape Town, South Africa, with the theme around ‘Darr Aur Dare Ka Battleground’, which will feature some daredevil stunts. Extending the...

Airtel launches new broadband plans

Bharti Airtel, India’s premier communications solutions provider on Monday announced the launch of new bundled plans for its home broadband customers. The highest tier plan at Rs.1,599 includes subscriptions to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney+Hotstar. All the plans include subscriptions to 14 OTT platforms and 350 TV channels and speeds ...

Sportrader appoints Oscar Brodkin as MD, APAC

Sportradar announced the appointment of Oscar Brodkin as Managing Director, Asia Pacific (APAC). He will report directly to Eduard Blonk, Chief Commercial Officer. Based in Singapore, Brodkin’s new role as Managing Director APAC will oversee the business and sales functions at Sportradar and will be responsible for driving business strateg...

TRAI extends deadline on broadcast regulations

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has decided to extend the last date for submission of comments and counter-comments on its Consultation Paper on issues related to new regulatory framework for broadcasting and cable services to June 6, 2022 and June 13, 2022, respectively. TRAI had released the Consultation Paper May 7, 2022. ...

‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2’ crosses Rs.100cr at box office

The horror comedy ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2’, starring Kartik Aaryan and Kiara Advani, has minted more than Rs 100 crore at the domestic box office, the makers said on Sunday. A sequel to Akshay Kumar and Vidya Balan-starrer 2007 psychological horror-comedy of the same name, ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2’ released on May 20 to positive word of mouth and had an...

Aamir Khan launches ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ trailer

The highly anticipated trailer of the Aamir Khan starrer ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ has been unveiled on Sunday evening and it takes viewers on a joyride of emotions. The almost 3-minute-long trailer gives a glimpse into t...

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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!