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BARC Rating 49th Week: Sun TV regains top spot in all genre

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 49th Week (3rd December – 9th December 2022) has released its report. In India, Sun TV who gets the second spot for the past 2 weeks has backed again to its seat of the first spot in the list of top 10 channels across genres (All India 2+), the channel re...

Discovery+ available on Prime Video in Canada

Discovery+ is now available in Canada on Prime Video. Users will have access to Discovery+'s library of over 60,000 original series from HGTV, Food Network, TLC, ID, OWN, Travel Channel, Discovery Chann...

Netflix sets premiere date for ‘Landing’

Vir Das, the actor-comic, is set to return to Netflix with his new stand-up special 'Landing', which will premiere globally on the streaming service on December 26. Das also directed the hour-long program, which is about traveling the world, carrying one's country with them, and the concept of home. ...

Meta implements more suggestions of oversight board

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc implemented more recommendations from its oversight board in the third quarter than the second, the independent body said on Wednesday. The oversight board received ...

MeitY, Google to help 100 Indian start-ups apps

On Wednesday, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Startup Hub and Google announced that the second iteration of app scale academy would assist 100 additional Indian firms in growing their app businesses. Currently, tier 2 and tier 3 cities account for close to 50 percent of st...

International League T20 launches official anthem ‘Halla Halla’

The International League T20 official hymn, "Halla Halla," was unveiled on the league's YouTube account, celebrating the amazing force of cricket as a sport and the excitement and entertainment the T20 format offers. The rapper

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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!