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Puja Sethi joins India TV as Group Editor-Digital

India TV has announced the appointment of Puja Sethi as Group Editor – Digital. In her role at India TV, she would be responsible for managing the Editorial, in addition, she will focus on strategic and innovative solutions, and the development of an integrate...

Draft Telecoms Bill ’22: Deadline for comments extended

The government has extended the time by about 10 days for public comments and submissions to be made on a draft of the proposed Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022, which aims to replace some antiquated rules and make them contemporan...

IN10 Media Network appoints Anup Chandrasekharan as COO

IN10 Media Network has appointed Anup Chandrasekharan as the Chief Operating Officer of regional content to lead its expansion in the southern markets. He will report to Aditya Pittie and work closely with Vivek Krishnani, CEO of the network’s film divis...

Dish TV names Manoj Dobhal as COO

DTH service provider Dish TV has announced the appointment of Manoj Dobhal into their leadership team as Chief Operating Officer- DTH Business. Manoj has had a rich experience in the DTH industry in India and overseas. ...

Zee shareholders overwhelmingly ok merger with Sony

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (ZEEL)on Friday said that the company's equity shareholders have approved the proposed merger of ZEEL and Bangla Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. with and into Culver Max Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. (former...

AIR, poll body collaborate on ‘Matadata Junction’

All India Radio, in collaboration with the Election Commission of India (ECI), has started a new weekly program ‘Matadata Junction’ on voter awareness.

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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!