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Balaji Telefilms assigns Zulfiqar Khan as Group COO

TV & Movie Production house Balaji Telefilms, which also owns SVOD platform ALTBalaji, has assigned Zulfiqar Khan as Group COO (Chief Operating Officer) of the company. In his new role, Zulfiqar will report to the MD of Balaji Telefilms Shobha Kapo...

Netflix appoints Nanjappa Palekanda as Vice President

Streaming mammoth Netflix has appointed Nanjappa Palekanda as Vice President of Experience and Operations. Nanjappa having 2 decades of experience with Big companies like Infosys, Uber, and Google. Nanjappa started his career with Infosys in 2003 as Software Engineer and presented in t...

Streaming upstaging linear TV as sports viewing option

Consumers round the globe are increasingly shifting online to view sporting events, ditching linear TV, a new research has highlighted.

According to target audience company GWI or Global Web Index’s new data, GWI Sports, the number of consumers watching sports on broadcast TV has see...

Tanuja Rai Pradhan Joins Vodafone Idea

The former Jio’s Head Special Projects, Consumer Insights, and New Commerce Analytics, Tanuja Rai Pradhan has joined Vodafone Idea as Head Consumer Insights in Marketing. Tanuja was joined Jio in 2015 and l...

Deepak Sharma quits Starcom

Deepak Sharma, a media maestro with more than two decades of experience in media planning and buying, decided to quit his post last month with Starcom after spending 16 years with the media agency. He joined Starcom in 2005 as Media Manager and last presented

‘Easy access to funds, good R&D facility must for STB manufacturing’

An expert group has suggested to the government that to make India really self-reliant and a hub for STB manufacture, various sops like advance capital and world-class testing centres for R&D should be made available.

The group held discussions as part of Indian government’s seri...

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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!