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YouTube launches new à la carte TV plans in early 2026

YouTube has announced that it will introduce a new set of subscription options, called YouTube TV Plans, beginning early 2026. The update was confirmed in a blog post published by Christian Oestlien, Vice President and Head of Subscriptions at YouTube, who said the upcoming plans are designed to offer users more flexibility and control over w...

UPKL signs Screenox as cinema partner ahead of S2

The Uttar Pradesh Kabaddi League (UPKL) has announced a new partnership with Screenox, bringing the cinema advertising platform on board as its official Cinema Partner for the upcoming Season 2. The collaboration will grant UPKL access to more than 900 b...

Zee Media to host Global Innovation & Leadership Summit ‘25 in London

Zee Media is set to bring India’s leadership story to a global stage with the Global Innovation & Leadership Summit 2025, an international initiative that will take place across two prestigious venues in London. The two-day event, presented by Zee Bharat in partnership with Zee Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand and WION, aims to honour visionary ...

Disney characters to be available on Sora in collab with OpenAI

The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI have announced a major partnership that will make Disney the first major content licensing partner on Sora, OpenAI’s generative AI video platform. Under the three-year agreement, Sora will gain access to more than 200 characters across Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars, enabling fans to generate short, pro...

Red Sea Film Festival honors Hend Sabry, Alia Bhatt on Global stage

Tunisian star Hend Sabry and Indian actress Alia Bhatt were honoured at a high-profile gala dinner during the fifth edition of Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival, receiving distinguished accolades presented in partnership with the Golden Globes, Variety reported.

Sabry was conferre...

DTH revenue slide to ease to 3–4% this fiscal year: Report

India’s private direct-to-home (DTH) television operators are expected to witness another year of revenue decline in FY26, but the fall is likely to moderate to 3–4 per cent compared with a sharper 5 per cent drop in the previous fiscal.

The sector, which has been under sustained pre...

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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!