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BARC Rating 25th Week: Star Plus leads in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 25th week (19th June 2021 – 25th June 2021) will release its report. In India, Star Plus is the most-watched pay-TV channel across all genres (All India 2+) with 2961.93 impressions this week. Whereas,

Sony ropes in 15 advertisers for India-Lanka series

The Men in Blue are all set to return on Sony Pictures Sports Network (SPSN) as the India tour of Sri Lanka begins on July 13, 2021. The series which will feature 3 OD...

YuppTV re-launches Zee channels in US

YuppTV, the world’s leading OTT platform for South-Asian content, has launched Zee Network channels in the USA and Canada. Through this platform, viewers will now be able to catch a wide mix of relatable fiction, high voltage non-fiction, marquee events, and blo...

‘Hungama 2’to debut on Disney+Hotstar July 23

“Hungama2”, director Priyadarshan's comedy film, is set to debut on Disney+ Hotstar on July 23, the streaming platform announced on Wednesday.

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FB launches newsletter product ‘Bulletin’

Facebook Inc. launched its newsletter product "Bulletin" on Tuesday, a standalone platform for free and paid articles and podcasts that will aim to rival Substack.

Scope, biz model of public b’band network BharatNet expanded

India’s federal cabinet yesterday approved a revised implementation strategy of the country's ambitious digital broadband programme BharatNet through public private partnerships (PPP) in 16 States of the countr...

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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!