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Subhash Chandra accuses SEBI chief of scuttling Zee-Sony merger

Zee group’s founder and present Chairman Emeritus Subhash Chandra has once again pointed fingers at Madhabi Puri Buch, the controversial chief of the Indian markets regulator, accusing her of scuttling the Sony-Zee merger, which was ca...

IndiaDotcom Digital names Rahul Garg as new CFO

IndiaDotcom Digital Private Limited (IDPL) has appointed Rahul Garg as its new Chief Finance Officer (CFO). In his new role, Garg will oversee the company's financial operations, focusing on enhancing performance and aligning strategies with IDPL’s growth objective...

GTPL launches ‘GTPL Buzz’ customer app

GTPL Hathway Limited (GTPL), India's largest Multi-System Operator providing digital cable tv and high-speed broadband services, has launched its new customer application, GTPL Buzz. The app, available on both the Android Play Store and iOS (Apple Store)...

ZEEL files application to recall NCLT order

Zee Entertainment Enterprises has filed an application with the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) seeking the recall of the tribunal's August 10, 2023 order, which sanctioned the merger scheme with Sony Group Corporation's India media units, Culver Max Entertainment and Bangla Entertainment. The Indian entertainment giant filed the applica...

NBF raises FreeDish, CTV issues in meeting with PM

A delegation of the News Broadcasters Federation (NBF), an industry body of TV news channels, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday and discussed a host of issues. According to some people who attended the meeting, the NBF delegation raised, amongst others, the issues of DD FreeDish slot auctions, the downside of having singular audience...

WBD appoints Shauna Spenley global CMO of D2C biz

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has appointed Shauna Spenley as the Global Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for its direct-to-consumer segment, overseeing streaming marketing efforts for WBD’s key products, including Max and Discovery+.

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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!