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TV9 Network announces several digital services for HSMs

TV9 Network, with its content distributed across digital platforms, is set to expand its reach further with the launch of digital channels in key Hindi-speaking markets (HSMs) like Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, Jharkhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Haryana, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh.

Amazon miniTV to premiere ‘Case Toh Banta Hai’

Bollywood actor Riteish Deshmukh is all set to don the lawyer's coat in the comedy reality web show titled 'Case Toh Banta Hai'.

The weekly comedy show, which will drop on OTT, is touted to be India's first court of comedy featuring top Bollywood stars.

AXN formally bids adieu to India; surrenders downlink permission

Culver Max Entertainment Private Limited has surrendered the permissions given by Indian authorities to downlink AXN and AXN HD television channels.

The Indian government, while acceding to the surrender request, has also directed distribution platforms to refrain from carrying the t...

Warner Bros. Discovery announces new leadership team in India

Warner Bros. Discovery has announced a new leadership team for the South Asian market, which will include countries like Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The new leadership team will be based in India. The business will be led locally by Arjun Nohwar, general manage...

Twitter services down for an hour on Thursday

Twitter services came back online on Thursday after an hour-long outage that kept thousands of users across the globe from accessing the social media website.

The outage affected nearly 2,000 users as of 9 am ET (eastern time in the US), down from the peak of 50,000 incidents an hou...

SPN, SonyLIV to air ‘Ultimate Kho Kho’ from Aug 14

The opening season of ‘Ultimate Kho Kho’ will begin on August 14 at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex in Pune, where six teams will fight it out for the top honor.

The tournament will culminate on September 4.

The inaugural season wi...

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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!