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Viacom18, NBA announce multiyear broadcast and streaming partnership in India

Viacom18 and The National Basketball Association (NBA) on Friday announced a multi-year partnership to deliver live NBA games and programming to fans in India across television and over-the-top streaming. As NBA held its 75th Anniversary Season in 2021-22, Viacom18 as part of the partnership enable...

NBCUniversal launches OTT platform hayu in India

hayu, the all-reality TV and ad-free subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) streaming service from NBCUniversal has launched in India, available to consumers on three-month prepaid pass of ...

Streamer aha announces new movie ‘Pushpaka Vimanam’

India’s Telugu-language OTT platform aha is set to release Anand Deverakonda comedy-thriller movie ‘Pushpaka Vimanam’ on December 10, 2021.

The movie received a positive response from viewers and was tagged as ‘new age drama’, by ...

Susan Arnold named first woman chairman of Disney board

Walt Disney has announced the appointment of Susan E. Arnold as its new Chairman of the Board, effective December 31, 2021. This is the first time that the entertainment giant has elected a woman to this position in...

Twitter removes over 3k state-linked information ops

Days after getting a new chief executive, Twitter Inc. said on Thursday it has removed more than 3,000 accounts, which were operating as foreign state-linked information operations.

The Twitter accounts that were removed were linked to operations attributed to six countries, includin...

LinkedIn now available in Hindi

American business and employment-oriented online platform LinkedIn on Thursday marked a new milestone with the launch of its Hindi interface, the first Indian regional language on the platform, to support 600 million Hindi language speakers globally. With the launch of Hindi, LinkedIn now supports ...

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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!