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For Sonali Bendre, TV gave career fresh lease of life

Actress Sonali Bendre decision to do television initially raised eyebrows among her colleagues, but looking back, she calls it the “best thing” she ever did --- a move that gave her career a fresh lease of life along with a great paycheck.

The 50-year-old, who first appeared on telev...

SRK, Rani bag 1st National Film Awards, Massey named co-best actor

Hindi cinema dominated the 71st National Film Awards yesterday with superstar Shah Rukh Khan winning his career's first best actor award for ‘Jawan’ alongside Vikrant Massey for ‘12thFail", which was named the best feature film.

The Awards, announced for the year 20...

Apple Q3 services segment, including media assets, posts $27 bn revenues

Apple reported $94.04 billion in revenue for its fiscal third quarter ended on June 28, up nearly 10 percent from a year earlier and beating analyst expectations of $89.54 billion, according to LSEG data, a Reuters report said.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Apple’s services se...

UK’s Barb starts reporting TV-set viewing to YouTube channels

Barb, the UK industry’s standard for understanding what people watch (or simply put data related to audience measurement), together with its research partner Kantar Media, has started to report TV-set viewing to YouTube channels.

This landmark initiative makes Barb (Broadcasters Audi...

Ofcom probes 4 firms for porn content under new age-check rules

Ofcom has launched investigations into the compliance of four companies, which collectively run 34 pornography sites, with new age-check requirements under the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act.

On July 25, new rules under the Act came into force requiring sites that allow users to...

Aamir Khan likens YouTube to cinema chain in every pocket & house

A cinema chain in every house and pocket. That, says Aamir Khan, is the idea behind his novel move to bypass OTT platforms and instead release his latest film ‘Sitaare Zameen Par’ on his YouTube channel through a pay-per-view model.

It is what audiences have always done when...

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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!