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AIR Malayalam in Top 3 for 14 Weeks

In the latest Rankings of top cities in India where All India Radio live-streams on NewsOnAir App are most popular, Kolkata is the new entrant in top 10, while Lucknow is out. Delhi NCR and Chennai have gained in the rankings by pushing Mumbai down the ladder.

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Guest Column: Zee-Sony merger is a potboiler in the making

“Takes a licking and it keeps on ticking”. In 1956, and for decades thereafter, this was the tagline that sold millions upon millions of Timex watches. For all time, though, the line is now a proverb.

For the spirit of indefatigab...

Viacom18 appoints Vipul Nagar as Biz Head, Colors Gujarati

Viacom18 has announced the appointment of Vipul Nagar as Business Head. He will be responsible for managing the overall business and operations for Colors Gujarati and Colors Gujarati Cinema, and will be reporting to Rajesh Iyer, Head,

India SVoD subs to be 157 mn by 2026: Digital TV Research

Asia Pacific will likely have 698 million SVoD subscriptions by 2026, up from 502 million at end-2021, a new report from Digital TV Research said.

Out of this expansion in SVoD customers, C...

RoundGlass Punjab FC partners with Six5Six

RoundGlass Punjab Football Club on Thursday announced a three-year partnership with sportswear brand Six5Six as its official kit and merchandise partner. Six5Six is also a sponsor of the Indian national football team, Kerala Blasters FC and North-East U...

Facebook appoints Uber’s Sanjay Gupta as director of international marketing

Social media giant Facebook has appointed Sanjay Gupta as the director of international marketing.

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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!