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SonyLIV, Evergent extend subscription management partnership

Evergent, the monetization and customer management leader for streaming and digital subscription businesses, has announced a partnership extension with SonyLIV. According to the agreement, SonyLIV will continue to leverage Evergent’s agile subscription management platform to facilitate rapid growth and agile market expansion. SonyLIV is t...

Vin Diesel announces title of ‘Fast & Furious 10’

'Fast & Furious 10’ will be called ‘Fast X’, Hollywood star Vin Diesel announced in an Instagram post. The Universal film, the first half of the 'Fast and Furious' franchise's final chapter, has begun production and is slated to be released on May 19, 2023. In an Instagram post on Wednesday, the actor and producer revealed the film's tit...

BARC Rating 15th Week: Sun TV maintains lead position in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 15th Week (9th April – 15th April 2022) has re-leased its report. In India, Sun TV is continued to dominate the list of top 10 channels for the past two weeks across all genres (All India 2+), the channel registered 2643.56 impressions. Star Sports 1 Hindi is in the second spot with 2492.79 imp...

CNN-News18 launches new series

India’s leading English news channel, CNN-News18 is bringing an all-new series, focusing on the rise of these unicorns through ‘Bits to Billions – The Unicorn Story’. Each episode of the show will bring inside stories of Unicorns, their success, failures, and blood, toil, and sweat they have put in to reach the pinnacle of their respective se...

WrestleMania38 brings in record viewers for Sony sports channels

Sony’s sports channels in India seem to have hit pay dirt with WrestleMania 38 as over 50 million Indians watched the event, including the return debut of Indian wrestler Veer Mahan. Figures released by Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India highlighted that the show was seen by 56.1 million people in India on the Sony Sports Networ...

Sreenivasan made Republic’s branded content head

Republic has appointed Anand Sreenivasan as National Head – Branded Content. Sreenivasan will be leading Fluid, which is the branded content vertical of the Republic Media Network. With an overall experience of more than 16 years, Sreenivasan has led media organizations like ZoomTV, UTV, Sony, and A+E | TV18. According to the press rele...

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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!