Industry - Indian Broadcasting World

Viacom18, Star India merger announcement this week

A major shake-up in the Indian media landscape is set to occur later this week with a formal announcement. The CommunicationsToday today carried a report on the development. On the other side, Gurjeev Kapoor, Head of Distribution and International Markets at Disney Star, has likely decided to leave the company to pursue entrepreneurial amb...

55th IFFI to introduce entertainment extravaganza IFFIESTA

The 55^th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa is set to introduce IFFIESTA, an entertainment extravaganza designed to bring communities together through films, food, art, and interactive experiences, with ...

Jio, Airtel, Amazon, Starlink clash over satellite spectrum in TRAI OHD

Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel clashed with satellite players that are eyeing India's lucrative satcom market at TRAI's open house discussion yesterday, as telecom operators made a spirited pitch for level-playing-field among the "competing" "substitutable services" and satcom companies argued that justification for ...

Vipin Unni joins aha as CMO

Vipin Unni, former Head of Strategy for Sun TV Network's Malayalam and Telugu cluster, has been appointed as the Chief Marketing Officer at OTT platform aha, The Storyboard18 has reported.

In his new role, Unni will be resp...

SPNI appoints Sibaji Biswas as new CFO

Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI) has announced the appointment of Sibaji Biswas as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), set to assume his role in January 2025. Sibaji will oversee SPNI’s financial strategy, corporate finance, and operational planning, aimed ...

Jio’s legal opinion on TRAI satcom spectrum paper backs telcos’ stand

Telecom regulator Trai's consultation paper on spectrum allocation for satellite communications seems to have completely sidestepped the issue of level playing field with ground-based telecom networks, a former Supreme Court Judge said in response to a legal opinion sought by Reliance Jio.

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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!