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Kristen Stewart to star in ‘Love Lies Bleeding’

Hollywood star Kristen Stewart is set to topline a romantic thriller film by director Rose Glass. Titled ‘Love Lies Bleeding’, the film has been set up at Hollywood Studio A24 and examines a romance fuelled by ego, desire, and the American Dream. ‘Glass’, best known for her 2019 indie hit ‘Saint Maud’, is directing from the script as she c...

Amazon IMDb TV renames to Amazon Freevee

Amazon announced Wednesday that its free streaming service IMDb TV will be renamed Amazon Freevee. The new name will take effect on April 27, the company said. It also said that the streaming service will also expand its original programming by 70% in 2022, with spinoffs of shows such as ‘Bosh: Legacy’ and other series. It will also add more ...

Ishaan Khatter wraps war drama ‘Pippa’

Actor Ishaan Khatter on Monday said he has finished filming for his upcoming war drama movie ‘Pippa’. Backed by producers Ronnie Screwvala and Siddharth Roy Kapur, the film is directed by Raja Krishna Menon of ‘Airlift’ fame. ‘Pippa’ is billed as a heroic tank battle film that underscores the bravery of Brigadier Balram Singh Mehta (Khatte...

Discovery Kids launches new animated series

Discovery Kids and Toonz Media Group have announced the launch of their upcoming 2D animated show ‘Bunty Billa Aur Babban’. Produced by Toonz Media Group, the show is slated to release on April 18 at 1 PM and 7 PM. Following the trailblazing success of ‘Little Singham’ and ‘Fukrey Boyzzz’, which have created a benchmark in the Kids genre a...

Snapchat announces Dynamic Stories for news publishers

American multimedia instant messaging app Snapchat has introduced a new ‘Dynamic Stories’ feature that will allow publishers to automatically create Stories on the app based on news stories they publish online. Early partners include CNN, Bloomberg, ESPN, and more. The new feature uses a publisher’s RSS Feed to automatically create and pos...

BARC Rating 14th Week: Sun TV regains top spot in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 14th Week (2nd April – 8th April 2022) has released its report. In India, Sun TV who gets the second spot in the past three weeks has backed again to its seat of the first spot in the list of top 10 channels across genres (All India 2+), the channel registered 2462.15 impressions. Star Maa is i...

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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!