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Pushpendra Singh joins Viacom18 as CPO-Sports

Viacom18 has appointed Pushpendra Singh as Chief Product Officer (CPO)- Sports. Singh shared this information on his LinkedIn page. He will be leading the company’s foray into the acquisition, broadcasting, and monetization of sports properties. Sharing the news on Friday, Singh wrote, “Super stoked to announce my new stint as Chief...

AMC+ now part of Prime Video’s channel offerings in India

Amazon Prime Video has partnered with US-based entertainment company AMC+ Networks to offer its content on Prime Video Channels in India, the company said on Friday.

As part of the collaboration, Amazon

Telegram introduces premium service at $5/month

Encrypted messaging platform Telegram rolled out its premium service. As per ANI, the paid subscription is likely to cost around $5 a month. Users can avail of exclusive features including 4GB file upload, faster download speeds, exclusive stickers and reactions, and improved chat management. Some other perks include access to a library...

Khalsa TV surrenders UK licence after Ofcom rap on content

Khalsa Television Limited has chosen to surrender its licence, which makes it ineligible to operate the KTV channel that served the Sikh community in the United Kingdom.

The move comes after the KTV licence was suspended earlier in March following a “serious breach” of Ofcom broadcas...

Anushka Sharma starts filming for ‘Chakda ‘Xpress’

Bollywood star Anushka Sharma has said she has started shooting for her next feature film ‘Chakda 'Xpress’, a biopic on former Indian cricket legend Jhulan Goswami.

Produced by Anushka Sharma and Karnesh Sharma's Clean Slate Filmz, ‘Chakda Xpress’ has Prosit Roy att...

ZEE5 aiming double to triple digit growth this year

Home-grown video streaming platform ZEE5 is aiming for high double-digit to triple-digit revenue growth this year, riding on the momentum built over the last two years during the Covid pandemic, which acted as a catalyst for people to explore content online, according to a top company official.

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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!