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Abhay Ojha moves to ZMCL from News Nation

Abhay Ojha has recently moved to ZMCL from News Nation after nine years of working as president-sales and marketing, sources close to the development told Indianbroadcastingworld.com on Monday. In ZMCL, Abhay will be the chief revenue officer responsible for scaling the function and building a high-performing go-to-market engine across sales,...

YouTube rolls out transcription feature

The video-streaming platform YouTube is rolling out a transcription feature for its Android app following its introduction on the desktop version. As per ANI, some users have reported that the new feature is being implemented in th...

Akshay Kumar, Emraan Hashmi’s ‘Selfiee’ starts filming

Bollywood banner Dharma Productions on Thursday announced that the upcoming film ‘Selfiee’, starring Akshay Kumar and Emraan Hashmi, has started filming. The drama-comedy, being directed by Raj Mehta of ‘Good Newwz’ fame, is a remake of 2019 Malayalam-language comedy-drama Driving Licence. The Karan Johar-led Dharma Produ...

Google working on ‘app archiving feature’

American tech giant Google is working on a new feature that will let users ‘archive’ certain apps to free up space.

Currently, users uninstall certain apps to free up space.

Google’s app archiving feature will let

PHDCCI writes to MIB minister on FreeDish auction

The PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) on Wednesday waded into the Doordarshan FreeDish slot auction issue by suggesting two more places for spiritual/devotional channels be opened up on the DTH platform as the category was attracting high bids, thus generating more revenue for India’s pubcaster.

Nivedita Basu joins ULLU as head of content strategy & business alliances

Nivedita Basu has joined the homegrown OTT platform ULLU as head of content strategy & business alliances. In her new role, she will entail developing, creating, and producing original content and leading strategic business alliances for the platform. The news was shared on Basu’s LinkedIn profile. She has over two decades of experi...

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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!