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Instagram testing full-screen version of feeds

Meta-owned photo-sharing platform, Instagram has begun testing a new full-screen version of the feed that is similar to TikTok. Meta's growing insistence on being more like TikTok has led to it borrowing a lot of features from the popular Chinese content hosting service, owned by ByteDance. The feed has been in...

Pitaara TV now available in US on Dish, Sling TV

The world’s largest 24/7 Punjabi movies channel, Pitaara TV, has expanded its global network with a launch on Dish and Sling, the largest TV and online platforms in the United States.

For this launch, Pitaara TV has partnered with FYI Media Group, one of the leading South Asian conte...

Airtel launches Xstream fiber in Ladakh, Port Blair

Bharti Airtel has announced the launch of its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband service, Airtel Xstream fiber, in Ladakh and Andaman and the Nicobar Islands. The company has become the first private internet service provider to roll out FTTH broadband services in these remote geographies, the company said in a st...

Viacom18 let go of IPL TV rights in favour of digital

Mukesh Ambani’s group ultimately dropped the pursuit of television broadcast rights to India’s top cricket league that Walt Disney Co. secured for $3 billion as the Indian conglomerate saw limited opportunity for long-term profit from the legacy platform.

Viacom18, the joint venture ...

Shemaroo TV ropes in Shailesh Lodha to host new show

Shemaroo TV, the Hindi GEC from the house of Shemaroo, has launched its latest original, ‘Waah Bhai Waah’, which will be hosted by Shailesh Lodha. The show will be an amalgamation of poetry and literature with satirical comedy. It is slated to be aired in the prime-time slot of 9 pm every day from June 19, 2022. Each show will also feature...

Discovery Kids brings new animated series

Bollywood action director Rohit Shetty’s ‘Singham’ franchise has expanded further for kids with a new show ‘Baby Little Singham’. While ‘Little Singham’ is already one of the popular kids' shows, all-new episodes of ‘Baby Little Singham’ will show the journey of the hero’s childhood since he was born and couldn’t even speak properly to becomi...

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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!