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Raj and DK wraps shoot of ‘Guns & Gulaabs’

Filmmaker duo Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK on Saturday said they have finished shooting for their web series 'Guns & Gulaabs', featuring Rajkumar Rao and Dulquer Salmaan. Inspired by the misfits of the world, 'Guns & Gulaabs' is set in the 90s. It is billed as a story th...

TRAI bats for time-bound implementation of recommendations

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the telecoms and broadcast regulator, has pushed for time-bound implementation of its recommendations on various industry issues, highlighting that fast evolving technology defeats the very purpose of the suggestions made if they gather dust in the Ministry of Informa...

Intellectuals, celebrities hail TV9 Bangla’s Baithak

Celebrities pondered over some of the perennial imponderables of the Bengali persona and came up with fascinating interpretations in a spectacular and glittering event during the TV9 Bangla Baithak on March 25, Friday. Organized to discuss Bangaliana, the umbrella theme to celebrate the first anniversary of TV9 Bangla from the country’s numbe...

Batiste wins album honor, Zelenskiy makes appeal at Grammys

Multi-genre artist Jon Batiste won album of the year and R&B duo Silk Sonic took two of the top honors on Sunday at a Grammy awards ceremony that featured a surprise appeal for support from wartime President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of Ukraine.

Batiste, who leads the band on "The Late...

Invesco patches up with Zee patch ahead of Sony merger

The US investment firm Invesco said on Thursday it would abandon efforts to shake up top management at Zee Entertainment, citing a planned merger between the Indian TV network and the local unit of Japan's Sony Group, Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI). Zee's shares rocketed 18 percent higher on the news. Alleging corporate governance iss...

Nippon TV heads into MIPTV 2022 with three new formats

Nippon TV, Japan’s leading multiplatform entertainment powerhouse, Monday announced that it will head into MIPTV 2022 with three new formats, two of which are unscripted, ‘Dark Doubts’ (60min eps.) and ‘Turbo Brain’ (30-60min eps.) with one new scripted format ‘Tall Older’ (60min 10 eps.). All three of these formats...

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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!