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Viacom18 let go of IPL TV rights in favour of digital

Mukesh Ambani’s group ultimately dropped the pursuit of television broadcast rights to India’s top cricket league that Walt Disney Co. secured for $3 billion as the Indian conglomerate saw limited opportunity for long-term profit from the legacy platform.

Viacom18, the joint venture ...

Shemaroo TV ropes in Shailesh Lodha to host new show

Shemaroo TV, the Hindi GEC from the house of Shemaroo, has launched its latest original, ‘Waah Bhai Waah’, which will be hosted by Shailesh Lodha. The show will be an amalgamation of poetry and literature with satirical comedy. It is slated to be aired in the prime-time slot of 9 pm every day from June 19, 2022. Each show will also feature...

Discovery Kids brings new animated series

Bollywood action director Rohit Shetty’s ‘Singham’ franchise has expanded further for kids with a new show ‘Baby Little Singham’. While ‘Little Singham’ is already one of the popular kids' shows, all-new episodes of ‘Baby Little Singham’ will show the journey of the hero’s childhood since he was born and couldn’t even speak properly to becomi...

Chingari launches GARI Mining program to empower its users

Short-video sharing social media app Chingari has announced the GARI mining program under which it will offer cryptocurrency with the same name. GARI, the social tokens, will be awarded to creators and users for doing in-app activities. Chingari’s native token, GARI enables creators to monetize their content on the Blockchain with the GARI...

YouTube shorts now watched by over 1.5 bn users

Google-owned music and video streaming platform YouTube has confirmed that more than 1.5 billion logged-in users are now watching Shorts every month, less than two years after its launch. According to IANS, YouTube also promoted Shorts’ ability to drive viewers to creators’ long-form video channels as a by-product of its investment in Shorts....

Dhanush’s ‘Thiruchitrambalam’ to release in August

Actor Dhanush has announced that his upcoming Tamil-language movie ‘Thiruchitrambalam’ will release in the theatres on August 18. The musical comedy-drama film is written and directed by Mithran Jawahar who previously collaborated with Dhanush for ‘Yaaradi Nee Mohini’, ‘Kutty’, and ‘Uthamaputhiran’. The 38-year-old actor shared the news of...

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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!