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Zee5 sets premiere date for ‘Pavitra Rishta’ S2

Streaming platform ZEE5 on Wednesday announced that the second season of the popular show Pavitra Rishta, featuring Ankita Lokhande and Shaheer Sheikh, will premiere on September 15, reported by PTI. The original ZEE TV show, which came out in 2009, made its lead stars -- late Sushant Sing...

Vanessa Kirby launches production banner with Netflix

‘The Crown’ alum Vanessa Kirby has launched her production banner Aluna Entertainment, alongside former Film4 exec Lauren Dark and has struck a first-look deal with global streaming platform Netflix for female-centric films. According to ANI, Netflix on Tuesday unveiled a multi-year deal w...

‘Bigg Boss 13’ winner Siddharth Shukla passes away

Popular television and film actor Sidharth Shukla, best known for his role in the long-running TV show Balika Vadhu and the winner of Bigg Boss 13, died on Thursday morning, an official at the Cooper Hospital said to PTI. He was 40. Shukla suffered a massive

Amazon plans to hire 55,000 people globally, including India

Amazon.com Inc. is planning to hire 55,000 people for corporate and technology roles globally in the coming months, Chief Executive Andy Jassy said. That’s equal to more than a third of Google’s headcount as of June 30, and close to all...

Viacom18 appoints Aniket Joshi as Business Head for Colors Marathi

Viacom18, on Thursday, announced the appointment of Aniket Joshi as Business Head for Colors Marathi. He will be responsible for managing the channel’s overall business strategy and operations and will be reporting to Ravish Kumar, Head – Regi...

38% LaLiga viewership on MTV is from rural India

The new 2021/22 LaLiga Santander season is well underway. The most competitive of Europe’s top five leagues, featuring the clubs with the most European trophies in history, the most technical football in the world, and the game’s biggest stars are back for the 91s...

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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!