Television - Indian Broadcasting World

Sports18 available on Tata Play, Jiotv+ and Airtel Digital

Viacom18, which launched its sports channel, Sports18, on April 15, around the time when various Indian new years are celebrated, is now available on most major distribution platforms. The pay channel is available in both SD and HD formats on Jiotv + (channel no: 261 HD & 262 SD), TATA PLAY (channel no. 488) and Airtel Digital TV (channel no...

DD Sports to air Khelo India Univ Games

As India awaits Khelo India University Games 2021, there is good news for sports enthusiasts. Doordarshan Sports will be bringing the event live on TV and mobile handsets. Introduced in 2020, as part of Khelo India Games to revive sports culture in India, the second edition of Khelo India University Games is being held from April 24 to May 3...

POGO announces new show ‘The Pandavas’

Kids entertainment channel Pogo has planned plenty of fun-tainment with its Fun-tastic Summer campaign from April 25 till June 3. To kick off the holiday season, POGO is launching the thrilling adventures of five brothers ‘The Pandavas’ on April 23 with new episodes every weekend at 12:30 pm. The action-packed series, developed in collabo...

Zee Tamil launches new comedy show ‘Joker Poker’

Zee Tamil, a Tamil GEC from the ZEEL family, has announced the launch of its rib-tickling non-fiction offering – ‘Joker Poker’, which airs every Sunday at 2 pm. The fun-filled show not only has some fun skits but some entertaining games as well. Each week 4 celebrity guests are put into two comic teams, who go head-to-head in four challenging...

Colors unveil digital campaign for ‘Dance Deewane Juniors’

Viacom 18’s general entertainment channel Colors has developed a multichannel and multiplatform digital and marketing campaign for its new kids’ dance reality show ‘Dance Deewane Juniors’. The show will feature celebrities such as Neetu Kapoor, Nora Fatehi, and Marzi Pestonji as judges while actor Karan Kundrra will be the host. The campai...

Vidyut’s ‘Khuda Haafiz Chapter II’ to release June 17

'Khuda Haafiz: Chapter II - Agni Pariksha', starring Vidyut Jammwal, is slated to be released in theatres on June 17. A follow-up to the 2020 action-thriller 'Khuda Haafiz', the upcoming movie is written and directed by Faruk Kabir who penned and helmed the first film in the franchise as well. Jammwal took to Twitter to share the release d...

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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!