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Abhishek Mehrotra joins AATHARVI as president after exiting News24

Senior journalist Abhishek Mehrotra has stepped into a new leadership role as President of AATHARVI Production Multimedia Pvt Ltd, marking a significant shift in his career from traditional journalism to the broader media and entertainment landscape. In his new position, Mehrotra will spearhead content planning, revenue strategy, and the over...

Airtel beats quarterly profit estimates as ARPUs go up

Bharti Airtel, India's second-largest telecom operator, beat quarterly profit estimates yesterday, helped by a continued boost in its revenue per user from last year's price hikes and a growing subscriber base.

The company reported a consolidated net profit of Rs. 110.22 billion ($1....

Ads on Prime Video are here! It starts in India from June 17

Experts have been saying for some time now that OTT platforms are looking more and more like linear TV or what they describe as the ‘linearisation of streaming’ --- including dropping weekly episodes as on cable TV of yore to carrying ads in between shows.

So, it wasn’t much of a sur...

Is JioStar sports head Sanjog Gupta going to be next ICC CEO?

After Jay Shah, Indian cricket board head got elected as the International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman late last year, cricket’s global administrative head may get another Indian in a top spot, if media reports are to be believed

JioStar CEO of Sports and Live Experiences, Sanjog ...

Tata Play Bollywood Masala to celebrate Madhuri’s b’day

The queen of a million hearts, Madhuri Dixit, is getting a grand birthday celebration on screen as Tata Play Bollywood Masala rolls out a two-day special tribute to the actress who defined an era of Hindi cinema.

‘Dhadkan’ returns to theatres next week

Bollywood classic ‘Dhadkan’, which originally hit the silver screen in 2000, is all set to return to theatres next week. The romantic drama, starring Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty and Shilpa Shetty in lead roles, will be re-re...

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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!