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BCCI releases theme song for WPL

The theme song for the inaugural Women's Premier League, 'Ye Toh Bas Shuruat Hai,' has been released by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). WPL will begin on March 4, and the theme song was released just in time for the opening cer...

Media Quick View: IPL to be available on FTA

By Karan Taurani@Elara Caps - As per media reports, IPL (12 matches including play offs) will be made available for FTA households too. We believe this is primarily on the back of viewership growth pressure that ...

Twitter faces global outage, again

Twitter experienced a global outage on Wednesday, with users reporting that the site's timeline is not loading on either the web or mobile apps. According to the outage monitoring website 'Down Detector,' more than 56 percent of ...

BARC 8th Week: Dangal leads in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 8th Week (18 February – 24th February 2023) has released its report. In India, Dangal TV has been taking the first spot in all genres led back by Sun TV with 2390.63 impressions (All India 2+), where...

Twitter announces ‘Violent Speech’ policy

Twitter announced that it has updated its rules on "violent content and similar language," and that it has now "officially launched" its "Violent Speech" policy.

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BBC appoints Uzair Qadeer as chief people officer

Uzair Qadeer comes to the BBC from Carbon Health, a US healthcare provider where he was Chief People Officer. Uzair Qadeer will serve on the BBC Executive Committee, the Operations Committee, and the Board Remuneration Committee as a key

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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!