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JioStar secures strong sponsor mix for Tata WPL 2026

Building on the rapid rise of women’s cricket as a mainstream sporting and commercial property, the TATA Women’s Premier League (WPL) is set to return with its fourth edition, scheduled to run from January 9 to February 5, 2026. The upcoming season marks another milestone for the league, underlining its growing stature within India’s sports a...

Crime series ‘Honeymoon Se Hatya’ premieres on Zee5 Jan 9

ZEE5 has announced the launch of its new Hindi true crime docu-series ‘Honeymoon Se Hatya’, which is set to premiere on the platform on January 9. The series delves into real-life murder cases where wives were accused of killing their husbands, exa...

Network18 CEO-Broadcast Avinash Kaul exits after 10+ years

Avinash Kaul has resigned from his position as CEO of Network18 (Broadcast) and Managing Director of A+E Networks, bringing to an end a long and influential tenure at Network18 Media & Investments Limited, which oversees Network18 group of news channels, according to sources familiar with the matter.

MIB’s WaveX, IIT Delhi in pact to boost M&E innovations

WaveX, a startup accelerator initiative under the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB), has signed a memorandum of understanding with Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT) of the Indian Institute of Technolog...

Mumbai radio stations’ simulcast spotlights Dharavi transformation

Mumbai’s radio industry has scripted a first by coming together for an unprecedented multi-station simulcast to support the human-centric transformation of Dharavi in an initiative spearheaded by the Adani Group. Titled ‘Radio Community Ek Saath’, the city-wide broadcast marked a landmark moment for India’s advertisi...

India, Japan, China to lead APAC premium VOD revenue growth: MPA

Media market research firm Media Partners Asia (MPA), which released its flagship report titled ‘Asia-Pacific Video & Broadband 2026’ (AVB 2026) yesterday, said India will overtake China to emerge as the largest market for SVOD subscriptions by 2030 with 358 million individual subscriptions

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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!