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‘Bob Biswas’ to have world TV premiere on &pictures

Abhishek Bachchan-starrer ‘Bob Biswas’ is set to premiere on &pictures on June 11, at 10:00 PM. Set as a contract killer, ‘Bob Biswas' stars Abhishek Bachchan and Chitrangada Singh in the lead role. The film is produced by Gauri Khan, Sujoy Ghosh, and Gaurav Verma. ‘Bob Biswas’...

Google launches ads on YouTube Shorts

American tech giant Google has rolled out a suite of product innovations across ads and commerce. At the India edition of Google Marketing Live, the tech giant highlighted how with the surge of video watch time, the increased reliance on Search, and the growth in online shopping, brands, and businesses...

Colors Tamil to launch fiction show ‘Kanda Naal Muthal’

Tamil Nadu’s youngest GEC, Colors Tamil, Thursday announced the launch of its much-anticipated fiction show, ‘Kanda Naal Muthal’. A novel love story of two individuals who might be poles apart but come together due to unforeseen circumstances. The show revolves around the

Dipika Kaura joins Network18 as editor

Seasoned media professional Dipika Kaura has joined Network18 Group as editor, standards & practices. Kaura has worked with the network earlier as well in several different capacities. She was executive editor and head of the desk at CNN-News18 before she left the group in 2020. She was also ...

Rural GEC Azaad launches its new show

Azaad, the Hindi general entertainment channel, has unveiled ‘Kasturi’, a story inspired by the life of Padmashri Rajkumari Devi, popularly known as ‘Kisan Chachi’ (Farmer Aunty).

It shows the story of a village girl, who broke conventional myths with her spontaneous grit an...

Media Quick View: In IPL media rights bids, 6X higher cost for digital segment expected

By Karan Taurani/Elara Caps - As per industry reports, IPL bidding will commence on 12th June ; the bidding will be held in two tranches - 12th June (Digital and TV rights) and 13th June (Non exclusive cluster and overseas). This will be an open bid wherein the - As per media reports, the number of matches are exp...

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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!