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‘Radhe Shyam’ world TV premiere on Zee Cinema

The Hindi movie channel owned by Zee Media, Zee Cinema is set to entice its audience with the World Television Premiere highly-anticipated movie ‘Radhe Shyam’. The romantic period drama will premiere on April 24 at 12 Noon. Starring Prabhas and Pooja Hegde in the lead role. Touted to be India’s most expensive romantic genre fil...

Indian govt. spent between Rs. 190-625 cr. on newspaper ads over 5 yrs

The Indian government has said that it gave advertisemnts between Rs. 190 crore to Rs. 625 crore during the last five years to various newspapers.

Pointing out that Bureau of Outreach and Communication (BOC) issued ads to 3,500- 5,800 newspapers, Minister for Information and Broadcas...

Netflix acquires Boss Fight Entertainment

Netflix has acquired Boss Fight Entertainment, a mobile game studio based in Texas. Boss Fight was formed by former Zynga Dallas and Ensemble Studios employees in 2013. It's headed by CEO David Rippy alongside CCO Bill Jackson and COO Scott Winsett. "This studio's extensive experience building hit games

TRAI issues paper on use of street furniture for telecom services

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Wednesday issued a consultation paper on “Use of street furniture for small cell and aerial fiber deployment” for telecom services.

Street furniture like utility poles, billboards, lamp posts, tr...

Beyonce, Billie Ellish to perform live Oscar-nominated songs

Music superstars Beyonce and Billie Eilish will perform their Oscar-nominated songs live at this year's Academy Awards ceremony on March 27, producers have announced.

Beyonce will sing "Be Alive," a song she co-wrote for the movie ‘King Richard’ about the father of tennis le...

BharatNet network usage showing tick up in revenues: Comms Minister

The Indian government on Wednesday said that under the BharatNet project for high speed broadband, a total of 5,67,941 km optical fibre cable (OFC) has been laid as on February 2022.

It added that a total of 1,72,361 gram panchayats (GPs) or vill...

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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!