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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...

Netflix mulls ad-supported option, password sharing crackdown

Fazed by subscriber loss of 200,000 and gloomy predictions for the future in short term, Netflix is looking at an ad-supported option for consumers as also a crackdown on rampant password sharing around the globe, which is potential revenue loss for the company. Netflix suffered its first subscriber loss in more than a decade, causing its sha...

Anupam Kher’s ‘The Kashmir Files’ to release on Zee5

Anupam Kher – starrer ‘The Kashmir Files’ is set to be released on Zee5 a month after its theatrical release on March 11, the streamer announced on Monday. The film is produced by Zee Studios and Tej Narayan Agarwal, Abhishek Agarwal, Pallavi Joshi, and Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri. It is written and directed by Vivek Agnihotri and features a st...

Tata Play launches new comic show

The Indian direct broadcast satellite service provider, Tata Play had recently launched a new service called Tata Play classic TV, which promises to transport fans back to the golden period of Indian television. Taking on the vision to entertain the viewers with handpicked shows from the ‘80s and 90s’ Tata Play is all set to bring to its view...

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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!