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Smaash Entertainment appoints Shirish Kotmire

Gaming and Entertainment company Smaaash Entertainment has announced the appointment of Shirish Kotmire as the new chief executive officer. Shirish is based in Mumbai and will build a team of experienced chief experience officers who sha...

NBDA exhorts govt. to unveil national b’cast policy

The News Broadcasters & Digital Association (NBDA), amongst a slew of other suggestions to the regulator TRAI on Indian regulatory regime, has suggested that the federal government should actively explore coming out with a National Broadcast Policy (NBP), which had been proposed earlier, with media reports statin...

Jio launches IAX in Maldives

Reliance Jio Infocomm (Jio), India’s largest 4G and mobile broadband digital service provider, will land a multi-terabit India-Asia-Xpress (IAX) undersea cable system in Hulhumale, the Maldives, connecting the island nation directly to major internet hubs such as India and Singapore. Jio will land the high-speed IAX undersea cable system proj...

IBDF bats for liberalising sports b’casting regulations

The Indian Broadcasting & Digital Foundation (IBDF), amongst other things, has made a major push for review and simplification of the regulatory regime for sports broadcasting in the country, saying it would help in creating a viable sports eco-system in India.

“Satellite TV broa...

TV9 Bangla ropes in scribes Anirban Choudhury, Pew Roy

TV9 Bangla has onboarded senior journalists Anirban Choudhury and Pew Roy to strengthen its content offering.

Choudhury, who will anchor the 10 pm show on TV9 Bangla, in his earlier on-air role had built a strong viewership for the prime-time slot. He would also editorially man the e...

Jio Platforms Ltd and SES Announce Joint Venture to Deliver High-Performance Satellite-Based Broadband Services Across India – Positive for gaming, internet, ad tech and media OTT cos

By Karan Taurani @ Elara Capital - This will speed up the process of high speed internet in the smaller towns/cities and also help ramp up broadband penetration in areas where there is little or no LCO support due to local broadband companies; satellite internet cannot offer speed as per the FTTH at peak (10 GBPS) , however i...

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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!