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India News appoints Abul Nasr Iqbal as senior anchor

India News has announced the appointment of Abul Nasr Iqbal as a senior anchor, according to an update on his LinkedIn account. With a career spread over 17 years, Abul has worked with established names in the media domain. Prior to joining India News, he was associated with India TV as an anchor and executive producer. He has also worked ...

‘Swaraj’ to showcase India freedom struggle, DD’s evolution

Doordarshan is slated to air a mega historical docu-drama titled ‘Swaraj- Bharat Ke Swatantrata Sangram Ki Samagra Gatha’, outlining India’s freedom struggle from the 15th century onwards.

Speaking on the occasion of the promo launch of the show on Friday, Minister for Infor...

Havas’ health and creative networks appoints Donna Murphy as Global CEO

Havas’ health and creative networks has announced the appointment of Donna Murphy as Global CEO of Havas Health & You. Chris Hirst, who has led Havas Creative Group as Global CEO as well as UK Group CEO, will move on to pursue new opportunities, with the global creative leadership team that reported to him now reporting to Murphy. Murp...

Shemaroo Entertainment appoints Arghya Chakravarty as COO

Shemaroo Entertainment, a leading M&E player, has appointed Arghya Chakravarty as a chief operating officer (COO). Earlier, Kranti Gada served as the COO in transforming the organization from a B2-B entity to a successful B2C brand. She will now pass on the baton to Chakravarty and become the president, new business opportunities. C...

AXN formally bids adieu to India; surrenders downlink permission

Culver Max Entertainment Private Limited has surrendered the permissions given by Indian authorities to downlink AXN and AXN HD television channels.

The Indian government, while acceding to the surrender request, has also directed distribution platforms to refrain from carrying the t...

Havas Group expands footprint into Eastern India

Global advertising conglomerate Havas Group India on Thursday announced its foray into Eastern India through a strategic tie-up between Havas Worldwide India and Kolkata-based digital marketing agency Quite Easily Done (QED). The new entity, Havas QED, will partner with Havas Creative Group India, which has agencies, including Havas Worldwide...

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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!