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Eros Now announces new psycho-horror series

Streaming platform Eros Now on Thursday announced a new psychological horror series ‘Barun Rai and the House on the Cliff’, starring actor Priyanshu Chatterjee.

BARC viewership: NBDA says ‘vindicated’; NBF ‘disappointed’ at unavailability of data still

A day after the Indian government directed BARC India to immediately release the audience data for TV news channels, NBF expressed ‘disappointment’ on the unavailability of viewership nu...

Bhumi Pednekar, Arjun Kapoor to feature in ‘The Lady Killer’

Bollywood actress Bhumi Pednekar is all set to share the screen space with Arjun Kapoor in a new project, titled ‘The Lady Killer’. Directed by Ajay Bahl, ‘The Lady Killer’ is billed as the story of a small town ...

ZEE5 announces second edition of Global Content Festival

Streaming platform ZEE5 Global is bringing back the global content festival for a second edition. The festival, which was launched in 2020, aims to provide a global platform for budding and independent filmmakers to showcase their work to an audience across 190+ countries For its inaugural editi...

Media industry veteran Jeffrey Gonsalves passes away

Media industry veteran Jeffrey Gonsalves has passed away on Monday. Jeffrey was the most respected pioneer who started the first cable TV channel of India, in Colaba, South Bombay along with 6 other members. He was the digital expert for content syndication, to KL

I&B ministry’s Twitter account hacked

The Twitter account of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry was hacked on Wednesday morning. The hackers changed the account name and posted malicious links from the handle. The ministry’s account was changed to ‘Elon Musk’ a...

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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!