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Shazia Fazal to lead Affiliate Sales at WBD South Asia

Warner Bros. Discovery has elevated Shazia Fazal to head of affiliate sales, South Asia, marking a significant milestone in a career that began with her watching the company’s content as a young girl. The move comes as Fazal completes nine years with the media major, underscoring both her steady rise within the organisation and the company’s evo...

Paramount-WBD merged entity net debt would be approx. $79bn

The Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros Discovery merger will create a combined entity that would have a net debt of about $79 billion, Paramount said yesterday, ruling out any plan to divest or spinoff the cable assets. The companies will fold their streaming services, including Paramount+ and HBO Max, into a single plat...

SPNI expands into South Indian markets with 5 new channels

Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI), has announced plans to launch five new television channels across Kannada, Tamil and Telugu markets as part of its latest reference interconnect offer, signalling the broadcaster’s next strateg...

Journalist Shubhankar Mishra steps down from NDTV

Journalist and digital content creator Shubhankar Mishra has reportedly stepped down from his role as consulting editor at NDTV, marking a significant shift in his professional journey as his independent digital presence continues to grow rapidly. His depart...

WBD agrees to be bought by Paramount for $110bn

Warner Bros Discovery has agreed to be acquired by Paramount Skydance in a $110 billion deal signed Friday morning (Feb. 27 as per US time), according to an audio clip of a global townhall by the company, which was reviewed by Reuters. "Netflix had the legal right to match the PSKY offer. As you all know, they ultimately decided not to do tha...

BT to host Banking Summit & Best Banks Awards ‘26 today

The Business Today is set to host the BT Banking and Economy Summit & BT Best Banks Awards 2026 on February 28 at the National Stock Exchange Atrium, Exchange Plaza, BKC, Mumbai. The summit will bring together leading voices from banking, financial services, policy and academia to deliberate on key trends shaping India’s financial ecosystem ...

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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!