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India TV gets a new look

India’s leading Hindi news channel India TV will don a new look from tomorrow, February 18. “The channel’s refreshed look coincides with its chairman and editor-in-chief Rajat Sharma’s birthday on Friday. It comes at a time when the country is glued to the news channels for minute-to-minute coverage on Assembly elections taking place in five ...

Manoranjan Group to launch Bhojpuri TV channel

With a long-standing legacy of running successful channels across the country, Manoranjan Group has lined up for launch Manoranjan Prime, a new Bhojpuri TV channel in Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh. The formal launch is scheduled for March of this year. Manoranjan Prime is a general entertainment channel (GEC) that will offer Bhojpuri ...

BARC Rating 6th Week: Star Maa regains top spot in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 6th Week (5th February – 11th February 2022) has released its report. In India, Star Maa who gets the third spot from the past five weeks has backed again to take their seat of the fir...

Republic CEO Khanchandani to review options after quitting

Republic Media Network CEO Vikas Khanchandani, who has put in his papers, is likely to use some of the free time to re-evaluate options, given the fast changing technology and the media landscape.

In the meanwhile, the Arnab Goswami-founded news network announced some leadership chan...

Zee Telugu announces new season of ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa’

Zee Telugu from the ZEEL family is all set to bring back the new season of ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa – The Singing Superstar’.

The new season promises to discover and nurture the mo...

Australia Open 2022 records 22mn viewers on Sony Network

The 2022 Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the year 2022, recorded the highest viewership in recent years with 22mn viewers across Sony Sports Network channels. The tournament held in January 2022 began the year on a high note for tennis fans with Ashleigh Barty becoming the first Australian in 44 years to win a

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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!