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Prime Video announces ‘Prime Day 2022’

Prime Video announces an entertainment bonanza for Prime members, with an exciting line-up of highly anticipated Amazon Original series and popular movies across multiple languages this Prime Day. This year, Prime Day celebrations start early with popular movies across languages like ‘Sarkaru Vaari Patta’ (Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam), ...

discovery+ to premiere ‘Trump Unprecedented’ on July 10

‘Trump: Unprecedented’, the highly anticipated and sought-after documentary from AJH Films and Alex Holder that features never-before-seen footage of the Donald J. Trump family during the final six weeks of the 2020 presidential campaign – and their reactions to the outcome of the election – will be released this Sunday, July 10 exclusively on d...

India TV corners max market share of 13.2% amongst Hindi news channels

India TV’s dominance of the Hindi-speaking market (HSM) continued for yet another week as, according to BARC India data, its market share was the highest (13.2 percent) amongst the twelve Hindi news channels. A close second was Aaj Tak, which had a market share of 13.1 percent in the HSM with News18 in third position with 11.9 percent share a...

Zee elevates Manjyot Sandhu as VP & head of digital syndication and content acquisitions

Zee Entertainment Enterprises (ZEEL) has elevated Manjyot Sandhu as vice president and head of digital syndication and content acquisitions (syndication). Sandhu made this announcement via a LinkedIn post “I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Vice President - Head of Digital Syndication & Content Acquisitions (Syndicatio...

Google announces startup school in India

Google has announced a startup school India aimed at enabling 10,000 startups in tier 2 and tier 3 cities to understand the dynamics of entrepreneurship The nine-week program delivered virtually, will feature fireside chats between Google leaders and trailblazing collaborators from across the startup ecosystem spanning fintech, D2C, B2B, and ...

MIB warns FM radio ops on carriage of public service messages

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has warned private FM radio operators that failure to air public service information, issued by the government, is a breach of agreement terms and would attract penalties.

Pointing out that the agreement with MIB stipoulates FM opera...

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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!