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Kaumudi Mahajan joins Viacom18 as head of content strategy for Colors

Viacom18's Colors has appointed Kaumudi Mahajan as its Head of Content Strategy, marking a significant addition to the channel's leadership team. Mahajan, who previously held the position of Head of Entertainment Partnerships at Meta, announced her new role via a LinkedIn post. In her announcement, M...

Anuraag Saxena appointed E-Gaming Federation CEO

In a significant development for the burgeoning online skill gaming industry in India, the E-Gaming Federation (EGF) has announced the appointment of Anuraag Saxena as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective November 1, 2023. EGF, which represents top online skill gaming operators in India, is se...

Viacom18 revenue driven primarily by studio, sports verticals

Even as the media businesses of Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) delivered strong revenue from operations, Viacom18 revenue was driven primarily by studios and sports verticals, the company said.

RIL, which yesterday came out with its Q2 financial res...

PM Modi highlights India’s comms progress at Mobile Congress

Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday launched a fresh broadside against Congress as he termed 2014 as not just a date but a ‘badlav’ (change) when people rejected outdated phones with frozen screens to choose a government that has transformed the landscape.

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PM Modi to inaugurate 7th India Mobile Congress today

prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 7th edition of the India Mobile Congress 2023 October 27, 2023 at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi.

During the programme, the Prime Minister will award 100 ‘5G Use Case Labs’ to educational...

IAMAI’s digital advertising council appoints new leadership team

The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has announced its new leadership team for the Digital Advertising Council (DAC), a crucial body in the advertising ecosystem. This dynamic team will steer the DAC towards further growth and innovation in the digital advertising sector. Vivek Malhotra, the...

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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!