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India strengthens TV, radio services near China border

The Indian government, fully cognizant of the importance of messages in border areas, is taking additional steps to beef up public broadcaster Prasar Bharati’s networks in such sensitive areas.

Schemes for installation of 100W FM

Reliance to acquire franchise in South Africa’s T20 cricket league

Expanding its international footprint in cricket, Reliance Industries Ltd on Wednesday said it will acquire a franchise in Cricket South Africa's upcoming T20 league. "Based in Cape Town the new franchise will take forward the Mumbai Indians brand and comes close on the heels of acquiring the UAE-based International League T-20 team," the fir...

Amazon appoints Dipashree Das as Partner Mktng. head

Amazon has recently roped in Dipashree Das from Netflix as Head of Partner Marketing, APAC & ANZ, AmazonFuse. Das shared about this move on her LinkedIn profile and wrote, “Super pumped to share that I started last week at Amazon Singapore, where I will be heading Partner Marketing for APAC and ANZ, as part of...

Network18 consolidated revenues for Q1 up 10%

Network18 Media & Investments Limited, the holding company for TV18 that runs the company’s broadcast business, including India’s largest news network, on Tuesday announced a 10 percent increase in consolidated revenues for the first quarter ending June 2022.

The company said its...

Locomotive Global Media names Kanupriya A Iyer as head of business affairs, senior producer

Locomotive Global Media, an international production company based in Mumbai has strengthened its senior leadership team by appointing Kanupriya A Iyer as head of business affairs and senior -producer. Kanupriya’s appointment is with immediate effect. In her new role, Kanupriya will work closely with Sunder Aaron to set up and lead Locomotive...

Sudhir Chaudhary’s new show to be air on July 19

Hindi news channel Aaj Tak announced that its new show helmed by Sudhir Chaudhary will air on Tuesday, July 19 at 9:00 pm. The channel goes into ‘Black & White’ mode for brief moments during the day. Where Chaudhary is also giving hints regarding the show’s name. As part of a user-engagement initiative, the channel is running a contes...

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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!