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Avinash Pandey elected as NBDA President

Avinash Pandey, CEO, ABP Network has been elected as the President of the News Broadcasters & Digital Association (NBDA) today. Prior to this, Pandey served as NBDA’s Vice President. With this move, Rajat Sharma, Chairman – Independent News Services Pvt...

Justin Bieber cancels India show

Pop star Justin Bieber has canceled the India leg of his 'Justice World Tour' owing to health concerns, promoters BookMyShow said Thursday. The development comes three months after Bieber announced that he was diagnosed with the Rams...

‘Mismatched’ S2 to premiere on Oct.14

Netflix has shared a promo of the second season of its popular series ‘Mismatched’, the show will premiere on October 14. Based on Sandhya Menon’s 2017 novel When Dimple Met Rishi, the show is headlined by Prajakta Koli and Rohit Saraf. The new season s...

NewYork Comic Con 2022: Prime Video announces programming block

Amazon’s OTT platform Prime Video has announced its programming block and consumer experience for this year’s New York Comic Con, which takes place next month from Oct., 6-9. This lineup will feature live, in-person panels from returning and new series,...

Instagram rolls out parental supervision tools

Meta-owned platform, Instagram on Thursday rolled out supervision tools in India to help parents be more involved in their teenage children’s experience on the image-sharing platform. The platform said it is working with experts, parents, guardians, and young ...

‘Brahmastra’ director Mukerji feels ‘big event’ films the future

At a time when luring the audiences to theatres was becoming increasingly difficult for Bollywood, director Ayan Mukerji's most ambitious film ‘Brahmastra Part One: Shiva’ has achieved the feat renewing his faith that "big event" movies are the future of Indian cinema. The fantasy action adventure epic starring real-life couple Ranbir ...

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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!