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Glitz & glamour galore at TV9 Bangla Ghorer Bioscope Awards ’23

The prestigious TV9 Bangla Ghorer Bioscope Awards 2023 was held for the first time with unmatched grandeur in Kolkata.

The event celebrated the exceptional talents and contributions of the Bengali television industry, OTT content creators and You...

Star Vijay launches new season of ‘Tamizh Pechu Engal Moochu’

Star Vijay is set to launch its most popular Tamil oratory talent show titled ‘Tamizh Pechu Engal Moochu’ (TPEM – Tamil speech is our breath). The show will premiere on April 16, 2023, on the occasion of the Tamil New Year. The show's goal i...

Tinder owner, Indian startups protest Google’s high service fee

Tinder-owner Match Group and Indian startups have asked the country's competition body to investigate Alphabet's Google for alleged non-compliance with an antitrust directive by charging a high service ...

Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti’s Tiger Baby gets into ad making

Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti's production company Tiger Baby, has made its first foray into ad creation with a new film for the used car reselling platform Spinny, starring Sachin Tendulkar, Anil Kumble, and Yuvraj Singh. Arjun Varain S...

aha expands its team

aha, the fastest-growing local OTT platform, recently stated that it will invest over Rs.1000 crores over the next three years to expand into more genres and languages and to fund its ambitions to become a complete regional entertainment platform. By these intentions, aha

65 pvt. TV channels hop onto DD FreeDish platform

Some 65 TV channels, which include those from genres like general entertainment, news, sports, and wellness and religious, have managed to be successful in finding berths on Doordarshan FreeDish platform in the MPEG-2 category.

Some of the...

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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!