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Viacom18 appoints Siddharth Sharma as EVP Sports

Viacom18 has appointed Siddharth Sharma as executive vice president (EVP)- Sports. Sharma shared this information on his LinkedIn page. He will be leading the company’s foray into acquisition, broadcasting and monetization of sports properties. Shar...

Parita Razdan joins Disney+Hotstar as head of growth strategy and ops

Star TV Network vice president, pricing, and customer intelligence, Parita Razdan has resigned from her post and joined Disney+Hotstar as head of growth strategy and ops. The news was shared by Parita on her LinkedIn profile, where she shar...

Rediffusion reappoints Rajendra Gupta as chief growth officer

Rediffusion has announced the appointment of Rajendra Gupta as its chief growth officer, based at its corporate office in Mumbai. An engineer from BHU-IT and an MBA from FMS Delhi, Gupta has been in advertising, industrial solutions and telecom for well over 35 years. This will be Gupta’s second st...

HBO Max India appoints Arjun Nohwar as country GM

Streaming service from AT&T’s Warner Media, HBO Max, has announced the appointment of Arjun Nohwar as Country General Manager for HBO Max in India. Before joining WarnerMedia, Nohwar was APAC direc...

Starlink puts out cost-benefit analyses for Indian enterprise, individual subs

Putting out in public domain cost-benefit analyses of Starlink’s broadband-via-staellite service for individuals and State-level susbcribers, parent company SpaceX has said it will apply early next year for a commercial licence in India.

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LionsgatePlay to launch in Philippines next quarter

Aiming to nearly double its presence in Asian countries to 15 by the end of 2022, OTT platform Lionsgate is poised to launch in the Philippines next quarter.

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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!