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WBD extends till ’30 FIA WEC, Le Mans’ India, Europe rights

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Sports Europe has extended its rights to show the FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC) continuing in its role of broadcasting live coverage to millions of fans across every market in Europe and India.

A renewed agreement until at least 2030 includes coverage of all eight races ...

Disney names Josh D’Amaro as new CEO; Dana Walden to be CCO

Walt Disney yesterday named theme parks head Josh D'Amaro as CEO, ending years of succession uncertainty and placing a longtime insider at the helm as artificial intelligence and a wave of consolidation upend the media industry. D'Amaro, 54, will take the reins from Bob Iger, 74, at the company's annual investor meet...

SC hauls up Meta, WhatsApp over Indian users’ data

India's top court yesterday warned it could reimpose on Meta-owned WhatsApp's data sharing with other group entities, saying the messaging app's privacy policy misled users, two lawyers present in court said. WhatsApp has been locked in a dispute with India's antitrust regulator since November 2024, when it fined the...

Netflix India unveils 2026 content slate featuring top stars, new seasons

Netflix India yesterday unveiled at a Mumbai event various shows that will be gracing the platform over the next 12 months. The specially curated lineup includes Sunny Deol’s OTT debut series, a legal thriller (‘Ikka’), a Neeraj Pandey-Manoj Bajpayee coming together crime series, Madhavan-headlined South Ind...

JioStar gets Emmy winner Stephan Bugaj to lead GenAI push

JioStar Group has announced the appointment of Emmy Award winner Stephan Bugaj as Senior Vice-President of GenAI Content & Technology, marking a significant step in the company’s ambition to build AI-native, next-generation entertainment experiences as the group sharpens its focus on intelligent content pipelines...

Mona Jain returns to ABP Network as Revenue, Biz Dev Prez

The ABP Network has announced the return of senior media professional Mona Jain, who has taken charge as President–Revenue Growth and Business Development. Jain shared the update on social media, marking her new role at the network and expressing enthusiasm about beginning this next chapter with the organisation.

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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!