Disney Star chief Madhavan returns as IBDF head for 3rd time

Indian Broadcasting and Digital Foundation (IBDF) held its 24th Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Delhi on October 31, 2023, re-electing K Madhavan, Disney Star President and Country Manager, as its president for the third consecutive term. This reaffirms his leadership and commitment to the organization.

Additionally, Network18 MD Rahul Joshi and India TV chairman Rajat Sharma have been re-elected as vice presidents, with responsibilities for Government and regulatory Affairs and News and current Affairs, respectively, Economic Times reported.

Punit Misra, President of Content & International Markets at Zee Entertainment Enterprises, has been re-elected as the Treasurer.
Two new members have been co-opted to the IBDF board, namely Viacom18 CEO of TV and Digital for regional business and Kairali TV MD John Brittas.

The IBDF board also features several re-elected directors, including I. Venkat (Eenadu TV), Rahul Joshi (Network18), Rajat Sharma (India TV), Punit Misra (Zee), and K Madhavan (Disney Star).

Other directors on the IBDF board include Aroon Purie (TV Today), NP Singh (Sony Pictures), Nitin Nadkarni (Sony Pictures), Punit Goenka (Zee), R. Mahesh Kumar (Sun TV), and Gaurav Banerjee (Disney Star).

During the AGM, IBDF President K Madhavan addressed the members and highlighted the resilience of the Indian media and entertainment industry, even in the face of ongoing geopolitical challenges. He emphasized India’s digital transformation journey, with the rapid expansion of broadband and the rollout of 5G services across a vast portion of the country.

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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!

Ashok Mansukhani, Corporate Law and Media Law Advocate at Ashokmansukhani Associates

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