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Sony’s ‘Tum Ho Naa’ launches contest to celebrate everyday women

Sony Entertainment Television is taking its recently launched reality game show ‘Tum Ho Naa – Ghar Ki Superstar’ a step further by inviting viewers to become a part of the celebration. Hosted by Rajeev Khandelwal, the show has announced the launch of the ‘Ghar Ki Superstar Contest’, giving audiences an opportunity to engage ...

Prime Video sets June 12 premiere for thriller series ‘Raakh’

Prime Video has announced June 12 as the global premiere date for its upcoming original investigative thriller, ‘Raakh’, starring Ali Fazal, Sonali Bendre, and Aamir Bashir in lead roles. The series will stream exclusively on Prime Video in Hindi across India and more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. According to a Prime...

Marathi comedy film ‘Super Duperr’ starts streaming on ZEE5

After receiving a warm response during its theatrical run, Marathi comedy-drama ‘Super Duperr’ got its digital premiere on ZEE5 Global yesterday. Directed by Sameer Asha Patil, the film started streaming on Marathi ZEE5 from May 29. Produced by Vijay Shinde and Naresh Borde under the banners of 99 Productions and Siddhivinayak Produc...

Apple TV releases trailer of neo-noir detective drama ‘Sugar’ S2

Apple TV has released the trailer for the second season of ‘Sugar’, the acclaimed neo-noir detective drama starring and executive produced by Colin Farrell. The show will return for its eight-episode second season on June 1 with one episode, followed by one new episode weekly, every Friday through August 7.<...

SonyLIV elevates Mehta as AVP-Sports Pricing & Strategy

Sony LIV has elevated Mitesh Mehta to the role of Associate Vice President – Sports Pricing & Strategy, strengthening its leadership team within the platform’s rapidly growing sports business. With the promotion, Mehta will now oversee the editorial and commercial mandate for pricing and strategic planning across Sony LIV’s sports vertical. ...

Delhi court upholds TRAI’s powers to regulate on TV ads/hour

The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed a batch of petitions filed by television broadcasters in 2013 challenging the Telecom Re...

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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!