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BBC Studios announces new content deal with MX Player

BBC Studios has announced a new content deal with MX Player, marking the inaugural partnership between India’s entertainment super app and BBC Studios. This new deal is set to strengthen MX Player’s content portfolio with award-winning bold, British drama and will be catering to the demands of audiences in India, ...

ShemarooMe to premiere ‘21Mu Tiffin’

The video streaming platform ShemarooMe is all set to premiere the award-winning Gujarati film ‘21Mu Tiffin’.

Helmed by Vijaygiri Bava, the movie stars Niilam Paanchal, Netri Trivedi, Raunaq Kamdar, Jahanavi Patel, Deepan Shah, and Hitesh Thakur.

‘Meow’ to have world TV premiere on Asianet

Asianet, the Indian Malayalam language GEC operated by Asianet Star Communications, would premiere the family comedy-drama movie ‘Meow’ on March 6 at 4:30 pm. The plot revolves around Dasthakir who runs a mini supermarket in Ras al Khaimah. He has a family consisting of a wife and three children. He is str...

YRF appoints Akshaye Widhani as CEO

Film production and distribution company Yash Raj Films (YRF) has announced the appointment of Akshaye Widhani as chief executive officer (CEO). The news was shared on the official Twitter handle of Yash Raj Films where he shared the press note of appointing Akshaye Widhani as their CEO. Widhani was serving as senior vice-president,

Instagram stops standalone app for IGTV

Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram has announced that it will no longer be supporting standalone apps for IGTV. The company said that, instead, it will focus on having all videos on the main Instagram app. "We believe that this makes it easier for people to

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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!