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Top India Ministers pitch WAVES ’25 to foreign envoys in New Delhi

Top Indian ministers and politicians, including Minister for External Affairs S. Jaishankar and Minister for Information & Broadcasting, Railways, and Electronics & IT Ashwini Vaishnaw, yesterday briefed New Delhi-based foreign envoys on the inaugural edition of WAVES, which aims to become the WEF-Davos of th...

Abhisheik Joshi steps down as head of ShemarooMe

Abhisheik Joshi has stepped down as the Head of ShemarooMe, marking the end of his impactful tenure at Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd.’s digital streaming division. According to media reports, Joshi, who joined the platform in March 2023, played a pivotal role in...

Vikas Purohit appointed CEO of new business ventures at TOI

The Times of India (BCCL) has named Vikas Purohit as CEO - New Business Ventures, a strategic appointment aimed at driving new growth opportunities and expanding business horizons. In this role, Purohit will be responsible for identifying high-potential ventures, developing strategic roadmaps, and executing scalable, revenue-driven initiative...

Angad Bhatia named CEO of Firstpost, Creator18

Angad Bhatia has been appointed as the CEO of Firstpost and Creator18, a newly launched venture under the Network18 umbrella. With this appointment, Bhatia will not only oversee Firstpost—India’s premier international news platform—but also spearhead the development of a creator-driven ecosystem that extends across Network18’s digital properties...

Vaishnaw, Jaishankar to brief foreign envoys on WAVES

Information & Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will meet ambassadors and heads of missions in India next week to apprise them of the first World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit (WAVES) scheduled to take place in Mumbai in May.

SPNI’s Studio Next appoints Suvonkar Banerjee as creative director

Sony Pictures Networks India's (SPNI) production arm, Studio Next, has named Suvonkar Banerjee as its new Creative Director. Banerjee steps into the role previously held by Indranil Chakraborty and will report directly to Danish Khan, Business Head for Sony LIV an...

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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!