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BBC Studios Audio expands team

BBC Studios has hired three new employees to work on comedy productions for BBC Studios Audio. Ella Woods takes over as Development Producer, while Kate Dehnert and Cody Dahler join as staff writers. Woods joins the team from the BBC Sounds and Radio 4 Podcast and Digital

Radhika Apte to play spy agent in ZEE5’s ‘Mrs. Undercover’

Streaming platform ZEE5 has announced its next original film, ‘Mrs. Undercover’, starring Radhika Apte. The film, billed as a spy comedy, will feature the actor in a never-before-seen role as a housewife and undercover agent battling many bad men and patriarchal

International Bhojpuri Film Awards ’23 return on Zee Biskope

Zee Biskope has announced that the International Bhojpuri Film Awards will return in 2023 with Yashi Films' property for its sixth edition after a three-year hiatus. The channel announced the event, promising to make up for the three-year gap by tripling the

TV9 Digital appoints Panini Anand, Ajith Kumar in senior roles

TV9 Network, India's largest television news network, has expanded its editorial capabilities in the digital space. With two senior-level hires, TV9 Digital's proposition is set to gain a competitive advantage as it embarks on a massive expansion plan.

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MIB issues list of 57 OTT platforms operating in India

How many OTT platforms are operating in India? Figures ranged from 25 to 70. Reason: success of the big domestic media companies’ digital extensions and the arrival of international

HBO content’s loss would impact Disney+Hotstar paid subs

By Karan Taurani@Elara Caps

HBO content will stop streaming on Disney+Hotstar in FY’24 (from April 2023).

We believe the above will have a

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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!