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Sony launches sports campaign for Asian Games

Sony Sports Network has launched a new campaign ‘Iss Baar Sau Paar, Phir Se, Hum Honge Kamyab’. Aiming to rally support for the Indian contingent at the Asian Games, the campaign sets a target for India to cross the 100-medal mark. The campaign consists of two films featuring Raja Randhir Singh and Adille Sumariwalla. Additionally, Sony...

Colors Bangla lines up Bengali New Year shows

Colors Bangla known as ETV Bangla has unveiled an ace lineup of programming for 2022. Continuing to satiate the diverse entertainment needs of its audience, the channel has planned an extravagant line-up of programs to celebrate the Bengali New Year from April 15 to April 18, 2022. The channel is all set to unravel an interesting mix of sh...

Juhi Chaturvedi announces directorial debut

Acclaimed screenwriter Juhi Chaturvedi, known for films like ‘Vicky Donor’ and ‘Piku’, has announced that she is set to debut as a director. The writer took to Instagram late Saturday evening and posted a picture of her script, which had "written and directed by Juhi Chaturvedi" penned on the first page. ‘Koshish’, Chatur...

Yahoo elevates John McNerney, Dan Richardson to APAC leadership roles

Yahoo today announced a leadership update, promoting John McNerney to senior director of platforms for APAC and Dan Richardson as Head of Data for APAC. In his previous role, McNerney was director of platforms, Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). As part of the expanded remit, he will oversee the commercia...

Vi partners L&T for private network solutions

Leading telecom service provider VodafoneIdea (Vi) Tuesday, announced the partnership with Larsen and Toubro Smart World & Communication (L&T SWC) to establish a use case for a private LTE enterprise network in India.

Both companies will carry out an accelerated ‘proof of concept’ at group business L&...

Supreme Court stays, till further orders, MediaOne channel ban

The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed till further orders the January 31 directive of India’s federal government revoking the licence of Malayalam news channel MediaOne and banning its telecast on security grounds.

A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud, Surya Kant and Vikram Nath said th...

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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!