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SCTE India appoints new executive board

SCTE India has announced its new executive board for the term 2021-2024 in its recently concluded AGM. Mr. Vynsley Fernandes, the MD & CEO of NXTDIGITAL Limited, has been appointed as the Honorary Chairman, Mr. Sandeep Bhargava as the President, and Mr. Rahul Nehra as the National Secretary. The new executive has a very aggressive char...

Rahul Sarangi joins Disney + Hotstar as VP

MX Player Vice President & Head- New Business, Rahul Sarangi has resigned from his post and joined Disney + Hotstar as Vice President- Head of Short Form & New Content Initiatives. Rahul has nearly two decades of experience across digital and linear content as well as production a...

NBA seeks members’ exemption from digital norms

News Broadcasters Association (NBA) said that the IT Act, 2000 and the IT Rules 2021, and more specifically provisions such as the blocking of content in cases of emergency, will severely impact the freedom of speech and expression of the media. “The Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act, 2000) had not contemplated the regulation of digita...

BARC Rating 20th Week: Star Plus, ‘Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai’ is on the top

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 20th week (15th May 2021 – 21st May 2021) will release the report of TRP. In the overall market, Star Utsav’s popular drama ‘Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai’ topped the list of top five programs in both overall and urban markets, the program earned 14982 impressions this week. Whereas, Star Plus shows...

Cartoon Network is set to launch the animated series- ‘Dabangg

Cartoon Network, a WarnerMedia kids’ channel, is set to launch its young fans in India with its latest action-comedy ‘Dabangg – The Animated Series. The series is based on Salman Khan’s iconic cop character ‘Chulbul Pandey’ from the Bollywood film “Dabangg”. Created by WarnerMedia in association with Cosmos-Maya. The series joins the Carto...

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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!