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Mukherjee joins India TV as Group Prez Network Development

As part of its strategic transformation process, India’s premier news channel India TV has announced the appointment of Priya Mukherjee as Group President-Network Development.

Mukherjee will be driving India and international distribution for linear TV and OTT businesses of India TV,...

Musk projects to investors $ 26 bn annual Twitter revenue by ’28

Elon Musk is aiming to increase Twitter's annual revenue to $26.4 billion by 2028, up from $5 billion last year, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing a pitch deck presented by the world's richest man to investors.

Advertising will fall to 45 percent of total revenue...

iTV Network launches ‘Mukhya Mantri Manch’

iTV Network has launched a series called 'Mukhya Mantri Manch'. The program will showcase an interactive interview with chief ministers from across India over the next 20 days, daily. The interviews will allow people from the state to ask questions to their Chief Ministers on camera and through social media. The Chief Ministers will also o...

Anuradha Aggarwal joins Amazon Pay as CMO

Anuradha Aggarwal has joined Amazon Pay as director, user growth, and CMO. The former head of the English, Infotainment, and Kids cluster at Disney-Star India announced the news on her LinkedIn account. She left Disney-Star in December 2020 and was working part-time as a strategic business advisor to D2C startups till March 2022. She joine...

TRAI issues new consultation paper on b’cast tariff

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Saturday issued a consultation paper on issues related to New Regulatory Framework for Broadcasting and Cable services. In consonance with the complete digitization of the cable TV sector, TRAI on March 3, 2017, notified the ‘New Regulatory Framework’ for Broadcasting and Cable services After pa...

SA’s Supersport, Sky UK buy IPL media rights documents

It’s not just the Indian media companies that are interested in the media rights of IPL cricket. Overseas broadcasters too have evinced interest, looking to exploit the popularity of the game around the globe.

Sky Sports of the UK and Supersport of South Africa are two such foreign b...

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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!