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Viacom18 consumer products expands Roadies Koffeehouz franchise

Viacom18 Consumer Products, a division of India's major media and entertainment conglomerate, has announced the opening of its first Roadies Koffeehouz in Surat, marking the company's flagship location in Gujarat. Roadies Koffeehouz, located in the

ISRO launches 36 OneWeb satellites to be used for b’band services

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) yesterday launched LVM3 rocket carrying 36 OneWeb communications satellites even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the

Viacom18 secures exclusive MotoGP rights for India

MotoGP will be exclusively live-streamed on JioCinema and Sports18 thanks to a new rights contract signed by Viacom18. The Grand Premio de Portugal will kick off the coverage. The network will provide comprehensive live coverage, including practice

MIB names MSOs who are TRAI regulation compliant

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has published the names of multi-system operators (MSOs) based on their compliance with the TRAI's interconnection legislation. The Ministry has also urged broadcasters to enter into new interconnection or renewal

aha announces new web series ‘Newsense’

aha, the 100% local OTT platform, has released Teaser 2.0 for its original web series ‘Newsense’ S1. The online series, directed by Sri Prawin and produced by Karthikeya 2 - People Media Factory, stars Navdeep and Bindhu Madhavi in ...

Juni Films, Approach Entertainment to produce ‘Two Great Masters ’

In collaboration with Go Spiritual India, Juni Films and Approach Entertainment are developing the spiritual online series ‘Two Great Masters’. Shooting for India's first web series on two great spiritual leaders of the twentieth century has alr...

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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!