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aha to launch ‘Comedy Stock Exchange’ on Dec. 2

When you need something to make your heart feel good or make your cheeks hurt from laughing too much, nothing compares to a great comedy. With the promise to thoroughly entertain its audience, aha is offering a light-hearted family comedy show, ‘Comedy Stock ...

MX original series ‘Dharavi Bank’ rates 9.3 on IMDb

India’s entertainment app MX Player has been enthralling viewers with a dynamic array of storylines across formats, genres, and languages. Amping up its robust library of original series, MX Player is now enticing viewers with its recent launch of the high octane crime thriller ‘Dharavi Bank’. Ranking No. 4 in the most anticipated list of sho...

FCC directs b’band providers to display labels to empower consumers

American communications services-related converged regulator Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has unveiled new rules that will for the first time require broadband providers to display easy-to- understand point of sales (POS) labels to allow consumers to co...

OTTplay clocks 9.5 mn users

OTTplay, an AI-powered OTT recommendation and content discovery platform, has over 9.5 million users. With this achievement, OTTplay has established itself as a category leader. The platform recommends content from its extensi...

Piyush Goyal calls for contemporary M&E rules, self-regulation

India’s Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, and Textiles Piyush Goyal called for self-regulation within the country’s media and entertainment industry with regard to content, while adding sector-specific rule...

Prime Video India head stresses streaming enables creative economy

Streaming is giving more reach to films, providing more opportunities to creators and talent, and fuelling the country’s creative economy, said Gaurav Gandhi, Vice President of Prime Video India.

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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!