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Richa Vaidya joins T-Series as deputy GM, Music Marketing

Richa Vaidya, a seasoned entertainment marketing professional, has joined T-Series as Deputy General Manager, Music Marketing, following an impactful tenure of nearly three years at JioHotstar. Announcing her new role in a LinkedIn post, Richa expressed excitement about beginning this new chapter in her career. “After an incredible journey of...

Disney Networks go dark on YouTube TV after failed renewal talks

Disney's networks went dark on Google's pay-TV platform YouTube TV after negotiations to reach a licensing deal failed, the companies said in separate statements late on Thursday. The affected Disney networks include ESPN, ABC, FX, Nat Geo, Nat Geo Wild, Disney Channel, ABC News Live and others. A source told Reuters that Disney's channels...

Bollywood Hungama announces 3rd OTT India Summit & Ent Awards ‘25

Bollywood Hungama has officially announced the third edition of its highly anticipated OTT India Summit & Entertainment Awards 2025, scheduled to be held on December 3 and 4, 2025. The announcement follows the overwhelming success of this year’s Bollywood Hungama Style Icons Summit & Awards, which once again set benchmarks for scale, ...

Warner Bros. schedules ‘Hello Kitty’ for July 2028 release

Hollywood studio Warner Bros has officially announced the release date for its much-anticipated ‘Hello Kitty’ film. The English-language feature, based on Japan’s globally beloved character, will arrive in US theatres on...

Google to offer Gemini AI free to 505mn Jio subs for 3 months

Google will offer 18-month free access to its Gemini AI service for all 505 million telecom users of India's Reliance Jio, a tie-up that follows similar freebies from rivals including OpenAI to boost adoption in the world's most...

Adobe, YouTube join hands to empower creators with new content creation tools

In a major move aimed at transforming the creator ecosystem, Adobe and YouTube have announced a global partnership designed to help creators produce high-quality content and expand their audiences. The announcement was made at Adobe MAX, the world’s larges...

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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!