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Friends: The Reunion, crossed over 1million views in an hour

Within hours of going on air, the highly anticipated series, Friends: The Reunion special has crossed the one million views-mark in India, only in an hour, according to the Zee5. The special episode features the six stars of the vogue American Sitcom - Friends, starring Jennifer Aniston, ...

Rahul Sarangi joins Disney + Hotstar as VP

MX Player Vice President & Head- New Business, Rahul Sarangi has resigned from his post and joined Disney + Hotstar as Vice President- Head of Short Form & New Content Initiatives. Rahul has nearly two decades of experience across digital and linear content as well as production a...

Airtel delivers the best network for customers in Kerala

Telecom company Bharti Airtel, known as (Airtel), which is also known as India’s premier communications solutions provider, today said that they had been upgraded their mobile network in Kerala to deliver the best network experience for their customers. The company has deployed an additional 5 Mhz spectrum in the 1800 Mhz in the 2300 band alo...

Sony BBC is set to launch a new show

Indian pay television channel owned by BBC Studios and Sony Pictures Networks, Sony BBC is launching a new show named, “‘Life off the Leash’. The show is host and travel by, Tanveer Raj and Priyanka Jena who set out an off-beat road trip with their dogs, Frodo- a Golden Retriever- and Cruise- Labra...

Network18 Digital appoints Siddharth Raj Jain as CTO

The country’s premier multilingual digital news platform, Network18, has announced the appointment of Siddharth Raj Jain as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Network18 Digital. Siddharth will lead all t...

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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!