Industry - Indian Broadcasting World

MX Player appoints Dina D’Souza as senior VP

Dina D’Souza has joined MX Player as senior vice president, according to her LinkedIn post. In her new role, she will be driving the Direct and the OTT AVOD business for the organization. Dina brings with her 20 years of experience across print, digital, ad tech, gaming, and commerce industries. Her previous assignments have involved le...

Jon Steinlauf to lead ad sales for Warner Bros. Discovery

Warner Bros. Discovery continues to outline its top executive ranks ahead of its expected merger. On Friday, the company said that Jon Steinlauf will oversee advertising sales for the combined company. Steinlauf will report to Bruce Campbell, ...

ASCI elevates Manisha Kapoor as CEO

Advertising Standard Council of India (ASCI) has promoted Manisha Kapoor to chief executive officer (CEO). Manisha announced the news on her LinkedIn account, where she wrote, “It is my absolute privilege to lead a rocking team that has relentlessly

Tata Neu appoints Akash Banerji as head of content & entertainment vertical

Tata Group, which launched its super app Tata Neu, has announced the appointment of former Amazon executive Akash Banerji as head of content and entertainment vertical for the app. Banerji, who was heading marketing of the central mobile biz development unit at Amazon, will oversee the entire content ver...

Disney + Hotstar appoints Nishant Tandon as AVP-growth

Streaming platform Disney + Hotstar has announced the appointment of Nishant Tandon as AVP-growth, according to his LinkedIn post. He wrote, “After a 6-year long stint with V18 and Voot, moving back to the group where it all began. Though I am sad that I will not be working with people whom I have called friends for a long while, I look forwa...

Rolly Kapoor joins Quint as VP & National Sales Head

Rolly Kapoor has joined the English and Hindi language Indian general news and opinion website Quint as VP & National Sales Head. The news was shared by Rolly on her LinkedIn account. Prior to Quint, she was the vice preside...

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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!