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‘Radhe Shyam’ world TV premiere on Zee Cinema

The Hindi movie channel owned by Zee Media, Zee Cinema is set to entice its audience with the World Television Premiere highly-anticipated movie ‘Radhe Shyam’. The romantic period drama will premiere on April 24 at 12 Noon. Starring Prabhas and Pooja Hegde in the lead role. Touted to be India’s most expensive romantic genre fil...

Ullu elevates Jividha Sharma as business development head

India's on-demand streaming platform Ullu has elevated Jividha Sharma as business development head, Jividha said in her LinkedIn post. She wrote, “I'm happy and delighted to share this wonderful opportunity to be promoted as a Business Development Head at Ullu. Thank you so much Vibhu Agarwal for this ...

WhatsApp working on file transfer size feature

Meta-owned encrypted messaging service WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new feature that will allow users to share bigger-sized files and media with others over their platform. According to a WABetaInfo report, WhatsApp will soon start testing the "Media File Size" feature in Argentina which will al...

Disney+ announces launch dates for 42 new countries

Disney’s premier direct-to-consumer streaming service, Disney+ has confirmed the launch dates and pricing for its Disney+ SVoD in 42 countries and 11 new territories, starting with South Africa on May 18 followed by all other countries in June. Subscribers will have access to exclusive Star Wars live-action series ‘The Book of Boba Fett’ and ...

Varun Dhawan on OTT debut: Something big, exciting coming

Another one bites the OTT bullet. Bollywood star Varun Dhawan says he will make his streaming debut. Amidst media reports about the 34-year-old actor foraying into the digital medium with the Indian spin-off of action-packed American spy series ‘Citadel’ , Dhawan teased his OTT debut. “I love it (the platform). Something big and int...

BCCI floats tender for IPL media rights

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has floated the tender for Indian Premier League (IPL) media rights for the 2023-27 as the governing body is expecting a windfall with 10 teams in the fray. The cricket board said there will be an e-auction for the media rights— a first in the league’s history. According to media reports on...

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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!