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SPNI launches content production sustainability guidelines

In what could be a first in the entertainment industry, Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI) launched sustainability guidelines for content production in an industry-first initiative, with a commitment to lead the way for the industry by adopting green practices. These guidelines aim to have SPNI achieve a zero environmental footprint by 2050....

Havas Media Group launches Havas Content

Havas Media Group India has announced the launch of its specialized content division, Havas Content. The unit aims to focus on leveraging dynamic content to help brands create meaningful media experiences and make a meaningful difference in consumers’ lives. Havas Content seeks to bridge the gap by offering meaningful content solutions tha...

Elon Musk secures $ 46.5 bn in funding to buy Twitter

The Twitter-Musk drama continues to throw up new twists and turns, almost every day. A filing with US regulators showed on Thursday that Elon Musk has secured $ 46.5 billion in funding to buy Twitter Inc. and is considering a tender offer for its shares, Musk himself has committed to put up $33.5 billion, which will include $21billion of ...

TRAI extends comments deadline for street furniture for telecom services

The comments submission deadline for the consultation paper titled 'Use of Street furniture for small cell and aerial fiber deployment', issued by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on March 23, has been extended. Earlier, the last date of receiving comments was fixed as April 20, 2022 and counter comments as May 4, 2022. The...

Anupam Kher’s ‘The Kashmir Files’ to release on Zee5

Anupam Kher – starrer ‘The Kashmir Files’ is set to be released on Zee5 a month after its theatrical release on March 11, the streamer announced on Monday. The film is produced by Zee Studios and Tej Narayan Agarwal, Abhishek Agarwal, Pallavi Joshi, and Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri. It is written and directed by Vivek Agnihotri and features a st...

Sony AATH to premiere ‘Vighnaharta Ganesh’ on April 25

Sony AATH, the Bangla general entertainment channel brings in a visual delight for their viewers with the addition of ‘Vighnaharta Ganesh’ to their content line-up. The popular mythological show depicts the journey of Lord Ganesh in a never-seen-before avatar for the first time in the Bengali language. ‘Vighnaharta Ganesh’ will start airi...

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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!