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K. Satish Nambudiripad takes charge as DG Doordarshan

K. Satish Nambudiripad has been appointed as the Director General (DG) of India’s public broadcaster Doordarshan. With over three decades of experience in media, governance and policy-making, Nambudiripad’s leadership is expected to usher in a new era of mo...

Netflix drops trailer of Shabana Azmi starrer ‘Dabba Cartel’

What starts as a simple lunchbox service soon spirals into a perilous game of crime, deception and survival. That’s in short is ‘Dabba Cartel’, a Netflix drama telling the story of five ordinary women whose lives get spiced up when they get involved in murky goings.

The trai...

WAVES ’25 offers platform to electronic music producers, DJs

The Indian government wants the DJs and the electronic music producers here to jam more and create more music to be showcased on a global platform.

If one is an electronic music producer and has a flair for DJing, then

Prime Focus acquires AI content developer Metaphysic

Indian content creation company Prime Focus Ltd has acquired Metaphysic --- a developer of AI content creation technologies --- through its DNEG Group's Brahma. The acquisition, implemented by way of a merger, values Brahma at USD 1.43 billion. Following this...

Zee CEO Punit Goenka says open to future mergers

Punit Goenka, CEO of Zee Entertainment, addressed key questions surrounding the company's performance, leadership changes, and the much-discussed merger with Sony in an interview with Zee Business news channel.

Goenka clarified that while the merger with Sony did not materialize, he ...

Zing launches ‘Udaan’ initiative

Popular youth entertainment channel Zing has launched a motivational initiative, ‘Udaan’, aimed at inspiring young minds through real-life stories of resilience, determination, and success. The campaign seeks to spotlight individuals who have overcome challenges and emerged stronger, serving as role models for today’...

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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!