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Zee Media CRO Abhay Ojha passes away Sunday

Zee Media Corporation Ltd (ZMCL)’s young Chief Revenue Officer Abhay Ojha passed away early Sunday following a cardiac arrest.

Ojha, who had joined ZMCL earlier this year, is survived by his wife and two children.

Condolences poured in from industry ...

‘Koffee With Karan’ S7 to premiere on Disney+Hotstar July 7

Filmmaker Karan Johar on Sunday said the seventh season of his celebrity chat show ‘Koffee with Karan’ will arrive on Disney+ Hotstar on July 7.

The director took to Twitter to share the announcement."Guess who's back? And this time with some hot piping brew! #HotstarSpecial...

ZEE5 invests in Telugu content; rolls out 11 original content

With regional content gaining prominence on digital in the past two years, streaming platform ZEE5 has strengthened its content library for Telugu-speaking viewers. 50 percent of users consume regional language content. The OTT platform plans to roll out 11 original content for its Telugu-speaking audience in FY23. The content slate will i...

Instagram testing full-screen version of feeds

Meta-owned photo-sharing platform, Instagram has begun testing a new full-screen version of the feed that is similar to TikTok. Meta's growing insistence on being more like TikTok has led to it borrowing a lot of features from the popular Chinese content hosting service, owned by ByteDance. The feed has been in...

Pitaara TV now available in US on Dish, Sling TV

The world’s largest 24/7 Punjabi movies channel, Pitaara TV, has expanded its global network with a launch on Dish and Sling, the largest TV and online platforms in the United States.

For this launch, Pitaara TV has partnered with FYI Media Group, one of the leading South Asian conte...

Snap testing new subscription service Snapchat+

Snap Inc, the parent company of photo messaging app Snapchat, is testing a new subscription service called Snapchat+ that would give subscribers access to exclusive and pre-release features, a Snap spokesperson has confirmed.

The subscription feature, which Snap said is being tested ...

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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!