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BCCI releases theme song for WPL

The theme song for the inaugural Women's Premier League, 'Ye Toh Bas Shuruat Hai,' has been released by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). WPL will begin on March 4, and the theme song was released just in time for the opening cer...

Is Star making available IPL matches for free viewing?

Competition and disruptions can make businesses do things unheard of or, at least, tread the least taken path. With the news that Jio would stream IPL 2023 free on the Jio Cinema app for consumers, news is trickling in that Disney Star has decided to take a similar approach. According to reports...

Twitter faces global outage, again

Twitter experienced a global outage on Wednesday, with users reporting that the site's timeline is not loading on either the web or mobile apps. According to the outage monitoring website 'Down Detector,' more than 56 percent of ...

Tariff-related TV blackout sees channels’ ratings being impacted

The few days of blackout of some popular entertainment and other TV channels of some broadcasters, which started February 18, despite contrary claims has impacted the ratings of TV

WhatsApp banned 29 lakh Indian accounts in January

WhatsApp banned 29 lakh Indian accounts in January, according to the microblogging platform's monthly user safety report. To the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, the India monthly report is ...

POGO launches mini-series ‘New Big Picture’

POGO, India's homegrown kids' entertainment channel, today announced the launch of ' New Big Picture', a first-of-its-kind content format that brings iconic characters in a mini-series format, for Indian viewers in six languages - Hindi, Tamil, Tel...

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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!