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Jawahar Goel steps down as Dish TV MD

Jawahar Goel on Friday stepped down as managing director of India’s first private sector DTH platform Dish TV after an EGM of the company, according to regulatory filings.

“Mr. Jawahar Lal Goel vacates office of Managing Director of the Company. He continues as a Non-Executive Direct...

Saba Qamar starrer ‘Baaghi’ set to air on Zindagi

Pakistani actor Saba Qamar’s upcoming show ‘Baaghi’, based on the life of controversial social media figure Qandeel Baloch, will launch on the Zindagi channel’s DTH platforms on June 28. Zindagi channel was recently made available on Indian television as a value-added service on

ZEE5 announces ‘Rangbaaz’ S3

After the phenomenal success of the first two seasons of its marquee gangster drama ‘Rangbaaz’, ZEE5 has announced another season of the hit show.

The new season of ‘Rangbaaz – Darr Ki Rajneeti’ will star Vineet Kumar Singh and Aakanksha Singh in lead roles. The sho...

Meta, MS, others form metaverse standards body sans Apple

Meta, Microsoft and other tech giants racing to build the emerging metaverse concept have formed a group to foster development of industry standards that would make the companies' nascent digital worlds compatible with each other.

Participants in the Metaverse Standards Forum include...

‘Radhe Shyam’ world TV premiere on Zee Telugu

Zee Telugu from the ZEEL family is set to entice its audience with the World Television Premiere highly-anticipated movie ‘Radhe Shyam’. The romantic period drama will premiere on June 26 at 6:00 pm. Starring Prabhas and Pooja Hegde in the lead role. Touted to be India’s most expensive romantic genre film, this unique story, set in the ...

Telegram introduces premium service at $5/month

Encrypted messaging platform Telegram rolled out its premium service. As per ANI, the paid subscription is likely to cost around $5 a month. Users can avail of exclusive features including 4GB file upload, faster download speeds, exclusive stickers and reactions, and improved chat management. Some other perks include access to a library...

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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!