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‘Meow’ to have world TV premiere on Asianet

Asianet, the Indian Malayalam language GEC operated by Asianet Star Communications, would premiere the family comedy-drama movie ‘Meow’ on March 6 at 4:30 pm. The plot revolves around Dasthakir who runs a mini supermarket in Ras al Khaimah. He has a family consisting of a wife and three children. He is str...

BARC Rating 8th Week: Sun TV maintains lead position in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 8th Week (19th February – 25th February 2022) has released its report. In India, Tamil GEC Sun TV was the most viewed channel in the eighth week of March, the channel garnered 2483.04 impressions, slightly lower than the last week’s 2543.31. Star Maa has bagged the second position with 2387.79 ...

YRF appoints Akshaye Widhani as CEO

Film production and distribution company Yash Raj Films (YRF) has announced the appointment of Akshaye Widhani as chief executive officer (CEO). The news was shared on the official Twitter handle of Yash Raj Films where he shared the press note of appointing Akshaye Widhani as their CEO. Widhani was serving as senior vice-president,

Comedy Central announces March premieres, content line-up

English Entertainment, Viacom18’s Comedy Central is all set to get their viewers to hook their seats with their set of title lineups on television for the first time in India, starting on March 14, 2022. The channel will extend its offering with new and exciting additions to its bouquet of shows. <...

Google, FB top India digital rankings in Jan-22: comscore

Tech giants Google and Facebook are in pole positions in the Top 10 list of digital companies in India in terms of total unique visitors/ viewers and reach, according to Comscore Digital Rankings for January 2022.

Google tops the list with 474,886 (000) total

Shilpa Shetty announces next film ‘Sukhee’

Actor Shilpa Shetty on Tuesday announced her next feature film ‘Sukhee’. The movie, to be directed by Sonal Joshi, is backed by Abundantia Entertainment and T-Series. Shetty, 46, took to Instagram and shared the fil...

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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!