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ViacomCBS revamp its Global leadership

The leading global media and entertainment company ViacomCBS announced on Thursday that they will unify the company’s US and international businesses under a simplified global leadership structure. Effective immediately, Chris McCarthy ...

BCCC asks TV channels to exercise restraint on gender-based violence

Soon after the Indian government said self regulatory bodies would get statutory powers, IBF’s content body, the Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC), on Thursday asked non-news TV channels to exercise restraint in ...

Niche channels to benefit from HC order if TRAI doesn’t contest

Even as the Bombay High Court upheld the constitutional validity of the Indian regulator TRAI’s cable TV tariff guidelines issued last year, it gave a major concession to the broadcasters who, along with the pr...

Musk bets big on Starlink despite shortcomings

Don Joyce, a Nokia director working from home at a remote lake cottage in Canada, recently abandoned his painfully slow phone-line internet in favor of satellite broadband service Starlink, offered by E...

iTV Network joins hands with Kaydence Media Ventures

India’s fastest-growing news network iTV Network and Kaydence Media Ventures (KVM) have entered into a strategic partnership to develop the

From DD to OTT via Bollywood: Shefali Shah’s rising career

Her recent script choices have helped directors see her in a different light, says actor Shefali Shah who believes the industry has now started trusting her with headlining projects, which wasn't the case earlier.

After a lull around the mid 2010s, Shah, a powerhouse performer whose ...

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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!