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discovery+ to premiere ‘Trump Unprecedented’ on July 10

‘Trump: Unprecedented’, the highly anticipated and sought-after documentary from AJH Films and Alex Holder that features never-before-seen footage of the Donald J. Trump family during the final six weeks of the 2020 presidential campaign – and their reactions to the outcome of the election – will be released this Sunday, July 10 exclusively on d...

India TV corners max market share of 13.2% amongst Hindi news channels

India TV’s dominance of the Hindi-speaking market (HSM) continued for yet another week as, according to BARC India data, its market share was the highest (13.2 percent) amongst the twelve Hindi news channels. A close second was Aaj Tak, which had a market share of 13.1 percent in the HSM with News18 in third position with 11.9 percent share a...

Zee elevates Manjyot Sandhu as VP & head of digital syndication and content acquisitions

Zee Entertainment Enterprises (ZEEL) has elevated Manjyot Sandhu as vice president and head of digital syndication and content acquisitions (syndication). Sandhu made this announcement via a LinkedIn post “I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Vice President - Head of Digital Syndication & Content Acquisitions (Syndicatio...

BARC Rating 26th Week: Sun TV maintains lead position in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 26th Week (25th June – 1st July 2022) has released its report. Sun TV continues to dominate the list of top 10 channels for the past few weeks across all genres (All India 2+), the channel registered 2450.07 impressions. Star Maa is in the second spot with2395.26 impressions, and Star Plus bagg...

Kristen Finney to lead Disney’s global content curation div

Walt Disney Co. has said Kristen Finney will lead content curation for the media giant's international division that is pushing to make more regional content for streaming.

As executive vice president, Finney will work on building a team to track and evaluate "content needs and appro...

Apple to introduce `Lockdown Mode’ against hacking

Apple Inc. has said it plans to release a new feature called "Lockdown Mode" this fall that aims to add a new layer of protection for human rights advocates, political dissidents and other targets of sophisticated hacking attacks. The move comes after at least two Israeli firms have exploited flaws in Apple's software to remotely break into i...

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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!