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Times Now Navbharat appoints Ranjit Kumar Sr. Exec Editor

Times Now Navbharat has strengthened its editorial team with the appointment of Ranjit Kumar as its Senior Executive Editor. In his role, Ranjit will closely work with the channel’s editorial leadership team and spearhead the overall functionalities including output desk, assignment, news research, guest coordinat...

OneOTT iNTERTAINMENT appoints Sameer Kanse as CBO

ONEOTT iNTERTAINMENT LTD. (OIL) the subsidiary of NXTDigital Limited (NDL), the media vertical of the global conglomerate, Hinduja Group, has appointed Sameer Kanse as Chief Business Officer (CBO) of the emerging technologies group. OneOTT iNTERTAINMENT made this announcement via a LinkedIn post, “With nearly two decades of experience in the ...

Meity tells Karnataka HC: Twitter defiant of laws of the land

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) in its 101-page statement of objections before the Karnataka High Court has termed the microblogging platform Twitter of being defiant of the laws of the land. The case is slated to be heard on September 8. MeitY filed its statement of objections to the court on Thursday. In th...

Korean content shaping entire Asian video landscape: AVIA

The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA), with offices in Hong Kong and Singapore, welcomed over 200 delegates from across the region for its first ever Korean focused conference and its first in market event since 2019, with Korea in View, which took place on August 30 in Seoul.

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Prasar Bharati News Services to use AWS to scale services

Prasar Bharati News Services (PBNS), the digital arm of the public broadcasting service Prasar Bharati, will use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host and scale its expansive network. By moving to AWS, PBNS will have the capacity, reliability, and scalability to deliver news to over 894 million viewers and listeners in more than 190 countries. ...

Vasudha Gupta assumes charge as DG of AIR News

Senior Indian Information Service officer Vasudha Gupta assumed charge as the Director General of the News Services division of the All India Radio (AIR) on Thursday. A 1989-batch IIS officer, Gupta has served in various capacities in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting during her career spanning more than 32 years. Before her app...

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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!