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News b’casters body petitions MIB on 5G spectrum

The News Broadcasters and Digital Association have written to the Union I&B secretary, expressing serious concerns about the Department of Telecom's intention to allocate C-Band spectrum for 5G telecom services, claiming that t...

Cabinet approves the Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill 2023

The Union Cabinet approved the Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill 2023 on Wednesday, which includes provisions to prevent the transmission of pirated film content over the Internet...

News9 appoints Neha Khanna as deputy editor, senior anchor

Senior television journalist Neha Khanna has joined News 9, India's first fully integrated English news brand across all digital media. According to LinkedIn, Khanna, as Deputy Editor and Senior Anchor, will host several of the platform's programming in addition to serving on the core

Court grants Meity time to update it on streaming, SM content rules

The Delhi High Court has granted time to the Centre (the federal government) to inform it about the steps taken for regulating content on social media and over-the-top (OTT) platforms.

Hathway appoints Tavinderjit Panesar as CEO

In a meeting held on Monday, the board of directors of Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd. appointed Tavinderjit Singh Panesar as the company's Chief Executive Officer, according to a BSE filing. Meanwhile, on Monday, Hathway Cable &...

ABP Network appoints Saurabh Yagnik as COO

ABP Network, one of India's leading media conglomerates, has appointed Saurabh Yagnik as its Chief Operating Officer (COO) with P&L responsibilities. Yagnik’s appointment is effective from 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!