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Star TV elevates Sarika Shankarnarayan as Business Head- Star UK, Europe, South Africa

Disney-owned Star TV Network has elevated Sarika Shankarnarayan as Business Head – Star UK, Europe, South Africa. She will be the Head of Marketing for Star Network for the UK, Europe, and South Africa and mainstream sponsorship for Star U...

IAMAI’s India Affiliate Summit to take place on Aug 25

The Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has organized the seventh edition of the India Affiliate Summit (IAS) on August 25. Where the decision-makers from the different spheres of the affiliate marketing industry

Bombay HC to hear today Sony Networks’ plea on Harshad Mehta web series

Sony Pictures Network India, which owns SonyLIV app, has approached Bombay High Court seeking to quash a first information report (FIR) registered against it by Pune police on a complaint by Karad Urban Co-operativ...

Disney, NCTC announce carriage pact

Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution (NYSE: DIS) and the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) on Friday announced a new, multi-year distribution agreement that will continue to make Disney’s robust lineup of sports, news, kids, family, and general entertainment programming available t

Media icon Pradeep Guha passes away

Media icon Pradeep Guha, Managing Director of 9X Media and former President of The Times of India Group passed away on Saturday, 21st August due to liver cancer. He was 69 and survived by his family. He was suffering from liver cancer stage-4 and was put on a ventilator on Friday morning d...

Nakul Chopra new CEO of BARC India after Sunil Lulla quit

The Board of Broadcast Audience Research Council India (BARC), India’s TV audience measurement organisation, moved swiftly to quell rumours from doing damage to the body by announcing Friday evening Nakul Chopra as the new Chief Executive Officer.

An ad industry veteran Chopra’s appo...

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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!