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‘Mumbai Diaries’ set to return with S2

Amazon Prime Video is set to return with its second season of ‘Mumbai Diaries’. The show, which is a medical drama, told the story of the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai from the pe...

Apple to up phone production in India to $ 40 bn in 4-5 years

iPhone maker Apple has plans to scale up production in India by over five-fold to around USD 40 billion (about Rs. 3.32 lakh crore) in the next four to five years, according to Indian government sources.

According to the official, who did not w...

‘Bigg Boss’ S17 to debut on Colors, JioCinema on Oct. 15

The 17th season of popular reality series ‘Bigg Boss’, hosted by superstar Salman Khan, will air on TV channel Colors from October 15.

The show will be broadcast weekdays at 10 pm and at 9 pm over the weekend. The reality series will a...

Guest Column: Future OTT trends in India to watch out for

To put a perspective on sheer numbers, Indian media and enetertainment (M&E) industry today stands valued at 26 billion USD with two-third of growth in the last three years coming from the digital subsegments.

Since last five years, the Indian Government has been pushing the agen...

UK MPs for changes in Media Bill; against listed sports on paid OTT service

Obligations on smart TVs, firesticks and set-top boxes to ensure public service broadcasters (PSBs) are prominent on their platforms should be strengthened, according to the UK House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee.

In its report on the draft Media Bill, the United King...

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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!