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BBC appoints Uzair Qadeer as chief people officer

Uzair Qadeer comes to the BBC from Carbon Health, a US healthcare provider where he was Chief People Officer. Uzair Qadeer will serve on the BBC Executive Committee, the Operations Committee, and the Board Remuneration Committee as a key

IT Minister launches SM grievance appellate panel

Information Technology Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar yesterday launched a grievance appellate panel mechanism that will look into appeals by users against decisions of social media platforms.

Flickstree wins Marketing Platform 2023 award at IAMAI event

Flickstree Productions has been recognized as the Best Affiliate Marketing Platform by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) at the13th India Digital Awards. Flickstree is an AI Powered content-led commerce platform that generates transactions and sales, using videos. They h...

Punit Goenka challenges Zee insolvency proceedings

The chief executive of Zee Entertainment Enterprises (Zee) has challenged insolvency proceedings initiated against the company by India's bankruptcy court, according to a statement from his office yesterday

Punit Goenka has filed an appeal...

B’casters aiming to restore MSOs’ signals as truce hammered out

Hectic parleys yesterday in New Delhi between broadcasters and those MSOs whose signals were snapped off seem to have paid off.

According to industry sources, the Delhi talks between the warring factions has resulted in some compromise fo...

Aavishkar Dish Antenna Sangh seeks financial relief for LCOs

The All-India Aavishkar Dish Antenna Sangh, an apex body of LCOs, has urged the government to nudge the broadcasters and MSOs to extend financial relief to the last mile operators because of the accrued losses owing to blackout of TV channels from about 45 million cable TV...

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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!