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BBC C’wealth Games coverage gets record online viewership

BBC Sport’s coverage of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games was streamed a record-breaking 57.1 million times during the 11-day event. This was over six times the amount of streams seen in previous years, with a total of 9 million for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games and 8.2 million for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. According ...

Rohit Gupta bids adieu to SPNI after 20 years

After a fruitful 20-year-long stint at Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI), Rohit Gupta steps down from his role as the Advisor to the Management and the Board of the organization. An industry veteran, Rohit was responsible for advising the senior management on major industry trends and developments and providing his expertise and support at ...

aha announces new psychological thriller movie

India’s Telugu-language OTT platform aha, announces ‘Highway’, a psychological thriller starring Anand Devarakonda and Abhishek Banerjee. Directed and written by K.V. Guhan, and produced by Venkat Talari, the film will hit aha...

Instagram to soon test ultra-tall photos

Photo and video sharing platform Instagram will begin testing ultra-tall 9:16 photos "in a week or two." CEO Adam Mosseri confirmed the news, he said, "You can have tall videos, but you cannot have tall photos on Instagram. So we thought maybe we should mak...

HBO Max, discovery+ to merge; WBD mulls ad-supported service

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. has laid out a new strategy that will merge the HBO Max streaming service with Discovery+ while vowing to take aim at Marvel's ‘Captain America’and ‘Iron Man’.

Ormax Media, Film Companion release ‘O Womaniya!’ report

Media consulting ﬁrm, Ormax Media, and entertainment platform, Film Companion released their initiative on female representation in the Indian entertainment industry, titled O Womaniya! The report is supported by Prime Video, India’s most loved entertainment hub. The report highlights the on-screen and off-screen representation of women, by a...

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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!