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JioBLAST names Manish Patankar as VP–Commercial Partnerships

JioBLAST, the joint venture created by Jio, RISE Worldwide and BLAST to shape India’s next phase of esports and competitive entertainment, has appointed Manish Patankar as Vice President–Commercial Partnerships. The announcement was made through a LinkedIn post, underscoring the company’s plans to strengthen its commercial and revenue strateg...

BBH India’s Himanshu Saxena mandate expanded as President

BBH India Managing Director Himanshu Saxena has taken on an expanded mandate as President – North & East for Saatchi & Saatchi India and Propagate, strengthening unified leadership across the three agencies in key markets. The move, announced on December 4, aims to bolster regional capabilities, deepen client value and consolidate the...

CloudTV adds Swastik Stories to deepen cultural content offering

CloudTV, India’s first homegrown Smart TV operating system, has strengthened its content slate by onboarding Swastik Stories India’s first cultural storytelling and entertainment FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV) channel from Swastik Productions. The partnership gives CloudTV OS users free access to an expansive lineup of mythological dra...

Kevin Vaz highlights India’s content surge at Asia TV Forum 2025

Kevin Vaz, CEO–Entertainment, JioStar, outlined India’s rapidly expanding content landscape and JioStar’s growing global influence during his address at the Asia TV Forum & Market 2025 in Singapore. Speaking at a packed session titled ‘Powering the Next Wave of a Billion Imaginations,’ Vaz detailed...

Navneet Sehgal steps down as Prasar Bharati Chairman

Navneet Kumar Sehgal has resigned as Chairman of public broadcaster Prasar Bharati, with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting accepting his resignation and relieving him from service with immediate effect. According to an official ministry communication, Sehgal had submitted his resignation on Tuesday. The notice, addressed to him at ...

Reliance, Surrey announce Oval Invincibles alliance in The 100

Reliance Industries Limited has entered a major new chapter in global cricket by partnering with Surrey County Cricket Club to jointly own the Oval Invincibles franchise in The Hundred. The announcement was made on Wed in Mumbai and London after both si...

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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!