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Netflix elevates Ankit Gokani as India director-VFX

Streaming service Netflix has elevated Ankit Gokani as India director – VFX, according to his LinkedIn update. Gokarni has been associated with the streaming platform for more than three years. He joined Netflix as a VFX specialist – international

BARC Rating 13th Week: Star Utsav maintains lead position in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 13th Week (26th March – 1st April 2022) has released its report. In India, Star Utsav is continued to dominate the list of top 10 channels for the past two weeks across all genres (All India 2+), the channel registered 2882.4 impressions. Sun TV is in the second spot with 2448.39

BSNL to install 112,000 towers for 4G network

Indian Government-owned telco BSNL intends to install about 1.12 lakh (112,000) towers across the country ahead of the indigenous 4G telecom network rollout throughout India, Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw informed the Lok Sabha about the development on Wednesday.

The Minister als...

Vikrant Massey, Radhika Apte’s ‘Forensic’ to have OTT release

Vikrant Massey and Radhika Apte-starrer ‘Forensic’ will release on ZEE5 this year. Directed by Vishal Furia, ‘Forensic’ is the Hindi remake of the Malayalam film of the same name. ‘Forensic’ is being touted as a crime thriller. Talking about the film, Manish Kalra, Chief

Nancy Meyers to helm new film for Netflix

Filmmaker Nancy Meyers will return to the director's chair with an upcoming movie for streaming service Netflix. The filmmaker, known for giving hit rom-com ‘The Parent Trap’, ‘The Holiday’, ‘Something's Gotta Give’ and ‘Father of the Bride’, will write, direct and produce the feature film, Ne...

Amazon adds NammaFlix to Prime Video channels

Amazon Prime Video is bringing the best of Kannada content to its viewers with NammaFlix, India’s first and exclusive Kannada video streaming service. Over the past year, Prime Video channels have expanded the selection of channels rapidly to offer c...

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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!