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Disney+ offered at discounted prices for limited period

Ahead of its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, Walt Disney Co. has said it was offering a month of Disney+ for $1.99 for a limited period, as the entertainment giant seeks to stem a slowdown in paid user growth at its streaming service.

Disney to celebrate Disney+ day on Nov.12

The Walt Disney Co. is set to host a Disney+ Day global event on November 12 to celebrate the second anniversary of its streaming service Disney+.

The streaming service also plans to ...

Disney, Star India head K. Madhavan re-elected IBDF prez

Indian Broadcasting & Digital Foundation (IBDF), an apex body of TV broadcasters and digital streaming platforms in the country, has re-elected Friday K. Madhavan, Country Manager & President, The Walt ...

Disney pushes back release dates for big-ticket films

Walt Disney Co. has delayed the release of Marvel Studios' sequels to "Black Panther," "Thor"and "Doctor Strange" by several months and pushed the next big-screen outing for adventure...

Disney+Hotstar to stream warm-up matches of T20 World Cup

Streaming platform Disney+Hotstar has announced it’d live stream the warm-up matches of the top eight teams of the forthcoming men’s T20 World Cup. The warm-up matches will be played from October 18-20, ahead of the Super 12 stage of the tournament, ANI reported from Mumbai. Team India's warm-up gam...

Disney’s studio biz boss Alan Horn set to retire

Walt Disney Co.'s Alan Horn, who turned the company's studio business into a media powerhouse and oversaw blockbusters such as "Avengers:Endgame"and "Black Panther", is retiring at the end of the year after nearly a decade.

A former U.S Air Force captain, Horn joine...

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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!