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JioStar’s Aru, MPA’s Couto elected as new directors to AVIA board

The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) has announced the election of two new Board Directors — K. Aravamudhan, Executive Vice President, Public Policy & Legal at JioStar, and Vivek Couto, Co-Founder, CEO and Executive Director of Media Partners Asia. Both leaders bring decades of industry experience and a strong grasp of the evolving ...

Nielsen Audience Segments integrates with Amazon DSP

Nielsen has announced that its industry-leading Audience Segments from the Nielsen Marketing Cloud (NMC) are now accessible across the Amazon Ads marketplace, including the Amazon DSP and the Amazon Marketing Cloud. The collaboration gives advertisers deeper, data-driven capabilities to reach specific audiences, deliver ads across multiple fo...

Ashish Sehgal takes over as CEO of Times TV Network

Ashish Sehgal has taken charge as the new CEO of Times TV Network, while also assuming the role of chief growth officer for Times Media and Entertainment. Bringing nearly two decades of experience from ZEEL, Sehgal is set to play a key role in expanding ...

Dubai Silicon Oasis concludes Doers Summit 2025

Dubai Silicon Oasis successfully concluded the first Middle East edition of the Doers Summit 2025, held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum. The two-day gathering, organised in collaboration with The DOERS Company, drew mor...

Paramount ups the stakes with $108bn hostile WBD bid

Paramount Skydance's 11th-hour, hostile $108.4 billion bid for Warner Bros Discovery was rooted in what it considered a lack of responsiveness from Warner Bros to its ardent overtures late last week, a securities filing yesterday showed. According to a Reuters report, Paramount offered a blow-by-blow account of Paramount CEO David Ellison's c...

Zee Tamil brings back ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li’l Champs’ S5

Zee Tamil is set to brighten up weekend entertainment with the launch of ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li’l Champs’ S5, premiering on December 6. After the success of ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Seniors’ season five, the new season returns with a vibrant lineup of young talents from across Tamil Nadu, promising spirited perf...

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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!