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HistoryTV18 to air special anthology ‘India @75’

The pan-Indian television channel HistoryTV18 on Sunday announced a special anthology ‘India @75’ starting on August 1 every night at 7:05 pm. The month-long programming will highlight the stories from travel, culture, history, military prowess, and stories of inventiveness and possibility. The program will feature shows such as the travel...

Zee5 to premiere ‘Rashtra Kavach Om’

Zee5, India and Bharat’s largest home-grown video streaming platform and multilingual storyteller, has announced the digital premiere league of the action-packed patriotic movie ‘Rashtra Kavach Om’ on August 11. Starring Aditya Roy Kapur, Sanjana Sanghi, and Jackie Shroff. The movie revolves around an important mission of getting the ‘Rash...

Twitter testing multiple media type feature

Micro-blogging platform Twitter is testing a new feature that will let users attach media in multiple formats to a single tweet. With this feature, a user can add an image, video, and GIF to a single tweet. According to ANI, those who have used Twitter for any amount of time would know the company has so far supported having only a single typ...

Colors Tamil to launch fiction show ‘Manthira Punnaghai’

Tamil Nadu’s youngest GEC, Colors Tamil, today announced the launch of its much-anticipated fiction show ‘Manthira Punnaghai’. The show traverses around Gayathri, Kathir, and Guru Vikramwhose lives get tangled with each other under mysterious circumstances. ‘Manthira Punnaghai’ chronicles the protagonist Gayathri, a smart and charming woma...

Zee, Sony merger gets nod from stock exchanges

The Zee-Sony merger, announced September last, got approval from BSE and National Stock Exchange on Friday, paving the way for the creation of an entertainment behemoth.

“The approval from the stock exchanges marks a firm and positive step in the overall merger approval process. The ...

OMTV partners with Hubhopper for audio podcast series

India’s first Sanatan storytelling platform OMTV partners with Hubhopper, the largest podcast hosting, creation, and distribution platform, for introducing new audio podcast features on their app. OMTV will set off the collaboration with 3 new shows on July 29 and be added to Hubhopper. The podcast is under a newly added podcast feature, w...

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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!