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Peeush Mahajan named president of AIDCF

All India Digital Cable Federation (AIDCF), the apex body of digital cable television players, has announced the appointment of Peeush Mahajan, CEO, of Fastway Transmission Private Limited, as the new President of the Federation. The change is due to Anirudhsinh Jadeja’s (MD– GTPL Hathway Limited) tenure as...

Peeush Mahajan elected as AIDCF President

The All India Digital Cable Federation (AIDCF) appointed Peeush Mahajan as president for two years. Peeush Mahajan, who has been with the Fastway Transmission since 2010, currently working as a CEO of the company He was previously the General Man...

Nishit Vora joins Viacom18 as Marketing, Brand, Digital head

Nishit B Vora has joined Viacom18 Media as Head of Marketing, Brand, and Digital.

He announced the announcement on LinkedIn and stated his excitement about joining Viacom18 Media's Integrated Network Solutions team. Vora stated in a post, "It's hammer time as I kick-of...

British High Commissioner Ellis plays down BBC raids in India

‘Good friends can also disagree’, British High Commissioner Alex Ellis said in response to questions on raids at BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai by the Income Tax department earlier this year. Speaking at the Ananta Centre in New Delhi on Wednesday, he underlined...

Vignesh Narayanan joins JioAds as VP-Biz Head, Media

Vignesh Narayanan has joined JioAd as VP-Business Head, Media.

Narayanan, a seasoned ad tech specialist with over 17 years of experience in leadership roles across several domains such as ad tech, ...

Zee disconnects Siti Networks; latter challenges move in TDSAT

Zee Entertainment Enterprise Ltd, which issued signal disconnection notice to MSO Siti Networks on May 6 over non-payment of dues, has been made a respondent in a case in the broadcast disputes tribunal TDSAT by the latter who is disp...

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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!