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JioHotstar appoints Nidhi Maheshwari as Senior Brand Manager

JioHotstar had announced the appointment of Nidhi Maheshwari as its Senior Brand Manager Brand Marketing Strategy. Maheshwari, who has an extensive background in brand marketing, took to LinkedIn to announce her new role, expressing excitement about joining JioHotstar under the

Sun TV appoints Bala Iyengar revenue head for Bangla, Marathi, Neo channels

Sun TV Network has named Bala Iyengar as the Head of Revenue for its Sun Bangla, Sun Marathi and Sun Neo cluster of channels. Coming from Helios Media, where he spent 13 years, Iyengar also had been the COO of Goldmines Telefilms and he’s done stints at Sony Entertainment, Star India, MTV India and Zoom Entertainment. Announcing his new ro...

K. Satish Nambudiripad takes charge as DG Doordarshan

K. Satish Nambudiripad has been appointed as the Director General (DG) of India’s public broadcaster Doordarshan. With over three decades of experience in media, governance and policy-making, Nambudiripad’s leadership is expected to usher in a new era of mo...

WAVES ’25 offers platform to electronic music producers, DJs

The Indian government wants the DJs and the electronic music producers here to jam more and create more music to be showcased on a global platform.

If one is an electronic music producer and has a flair for DJing, then

Zee CEO Punit Goenka says open to future mergers

Punit Goenka, CEO of Zee Entertainment, addressed key questions surrounding the company's performance, leadership changes, and the much-discussed merger with Sony in an interview with Zee Business news channel.

Goenka clarified that while the merger with Sony did not materialize, he ...

WAVES’ Tech Triumph S3 to showcase India’s gaming talents

World Audio Visual Entertainment Summit (WAVES), IEIC and WinZO have launched the Tech Triumph Season 3 to showcase India’s gaming innovation at global platforms

A win in Tech Triumph Season 3, the nation’s biggest gaming competition, will earn the winners a chance to showcase their ...

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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!