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Crunchyroll decreases cost of premium membership in India

Crunchyroll, the ultimate anime destination worldwide, announced today that anime fans in India have much more to be excited about now and in the months and years to come. The cost of a Crunchyroll Premium membership is decreasing in India as the subscription tiers shift to ₹79/month for its Fan subscription tier and ₹99/month for its Mega Fa...

Locomotive Global Media names Kanupriya A Iyer as head of business affairs, senior producer

Locomotive Global Media, an international production company based in Mumbai has strengthened its senior leadership team by appointing Kanupriya A Iyer as head of business affairs and senior -producer. Kanupriya’s appointment is with immediate effect. In her new role, Kanupriya will work closely with Sunder Aaron to set up and lead Locomotive...

TV9 launches multilingual personal finance OTT app

TV9 Network has announced the launch of Money9, India’s first multilingual personal finance OTT channel. A unique proposition, the company said in a statement, the Money9 OTT app is now live on Android and IOS platforms with seven language options—- Hindi, English, Bangla, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati and Kannada. Money9 is committed to de-ja...

Sudhir Chaudhary’s new show to be air on July 19

Hindi news channel Aaj Tak announced that its new show helmed by Sudhir Chaudhary will air on Tuesday, July 19 at 9:00 pm. The channel goes into ‘Black & White’ mode for brief moments during the day. Where Chaudhary is also giving hints regarding the show’s name. As part of a user-engagement initiative, the channel is running a contes...

Toonz Media to premiere ‘Zoonicorn’ in August

Zoonicorn, the multi-platform animated preschool brand from Zoonicorn LLC and Toonz Media Group, which is on a roll with a host of streaming platforms across the world, is set to release the Zoonicorn CGI series in August. The 52×7 series is completing production at Toonz and has already been picked up by NBCU’s O...

Dance reality show ‘Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa’ is back after 5 years

Popular dance reality show ‘Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa’ (JDJ) is back after a gap of five years and it will be judged by Madhuri Dixit, Nora Fatehi and Karan Johar.

Excited to be a part of the judging panel, Madhuri said, “‘Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa’ is a huge platform for all the...

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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!