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Colors Tamil launches new show

Tamil Nadu’s youngest GEC, Colors Tamil, announced the launch of its new show ‘Idhu Solla Marandha Kadahi’. Set in the backdrop of Chennai, ‘Idhu Solla Marandha Kadahi’ revolves around the life of a widow with his two children. Packed with action, drama, and love, the show narr...

Ranveer Singh’s ‘Jayeshbhai Jordaar’ to release on May

Bollywood superstar aka Ranveer Singh starrer ‘Jayeshbhai Jordaar’ is slated to release in theatres on May 13. Helmed by debutant filmmaker Divyang, the upcoming social comedy is backed by Yash Raj Films and Maneesh Sharma. On Thursday, Singh unveiled the release date on his

Discovery appoints Tushar Singh as product director.

American pay television network and flagship channel Discovery has announced the appointment of Tushar Singh as product director. The news was shared by Tushar himself on his LinkedIn account. Tushar will be heading up D2C products a...

BARC Rating 8th Week: Sun TV maintains lead position in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 8th Week (19th February – 25th February 2022) has released its report. In India, Tamil GEC Sun TV was the most viewed channel in the eighth week of March, the channel garnered 2483.04 impressions, slightly lower than the last week’s 2543.31. Star Maa has bagged the second position with 2387.79 ...

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!