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Kiran Rao’s ‘Laapataa Ladies’ to release in Jan 2024

Filmmaker Kiran Rao's ’Laapataa Ladies' will be released in theatres across the country on January 5, 2024, the makers announced yesterday. Rao returns to direction after 2010's 'Dhobi Ghat' with the film, which is produced by her former husband and superstar Aamir Khan's bann...

WBD to offer sports on Max free for a short period

Warner Bros Discovery plans to offer live sports at no additional price on its Max streaming service for a short period later this year, Reuters stated that Bloomberg News reported Wednesday.

Customers will need to pay an added cost for sports on the pl...

Fourth Dimension wins Republic Kannada’s S. India ad sales duties

Republic Media, which has a slew of Indian language TV news channels, has awarded to Fourth Dimension the ad sales mandate for the South Indian region for its soon-to-be-launched Kannada channel.

Fourth Dimension Media Solution, a leading ...

Times Navbharat breaks into top 5 in Hindi news genre

Rapidly emerging as the fastest-growing Hindi news channel, Times Now Navbharat has disrupted the pecking order by emerging in the top five category, displacing key players by a significant margin in the Hindi news genre.

Stamping its cont...

Roku lays off over 300 employees in 2nd job cut in 2023

TV streaming company Roku is laying off approximately 10 percent of its workforce, which equates to more than 300 employees, to reduce its operating expenses. In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on September 5,

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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!