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British minister urges uniform rules for streamers, b’casters

Are British lawmakers studying Indian laws and regulations relating to the media sector?

Britain's streaming services and broadcasters should be on a level playing field, as traditional broadcasters now compete with "one hand tied...

Taapsee Pannu’s ‘Shabaash Mithu’ gets a new director

Bollywood filmmaker Rahul Dholakia has officially confirmed that he is quitting the biopic of woman cricketer Mithali Raj, titled ‘Shabaash Mithu...

Sony TV to premiere ‘Shark Tank India’

Hindi GEC, Sony Entertainment Television (SET), is ready to premiere the Indian version of the American business reality show, ‘Shark Tank’. The channel shared the first promo of the show on Twitter saying: “Shark Tank India. World ka no.1 business reality show Shark Tank aa raha hai India mein! Jahan Sha...

ALTBalaji revenue Rs. 61 cr; direct subscriptions up 42%

Balaji Telefilms’ digital arm ALTBalaji for the year ending March, 2021recorded total subscriptions sold at 4.7m vs. 3.4m in FY20, while direct subscription revenues stood at Rs 54...

TV, films & web shootings begin in West Bengal

Shootings of TV serials and films began on Wednesday after being allowed by the West Bengal government. With the cap of not more than 50 people to be present on floor, shooting began in all the four studios in Tollygunje area, including old Technicians Studio and NT One, apart from other shooting floors in Garia, ...

JioSaavn launches JioSaavanTV

The Indian online music streaming platform JioSaavn on Monday has launched its new video product - JioSaavnTV. The unique feature from Reliance Jio aims to bridge the gap between expert curation and ease of consumption. JioSaavnTV is the newest addition to the video product offers via the platform. ...

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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!