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Anurag Thakur: India wants to be content creation, post-production hub

India’s Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Sunday said that the country’s aim is to make it the global hub for content creation and post-production. “We aim to make India a powerhouse of content creation, especially regional cinema, by scaling up regional festivals. India can be the p...

Disney replaces CEO; Bob Iger back to lead company

Disney ousted chief executive Bob Chapek on Sunday and announced that it had brought back former CEO Bob Iger to once again take the reins. The change, a dramatic turn of events for the world's largest media company, was effective immediately, Disney said ...

BBC Studios Kids & Family announces new senior appointments

BBC Studios, the BBC's commercial production, and distribution arm has announced the promotion of Alexandra McGrail to Head of Commercial, BBC Studios Kids & Family, and the appointment of Edward Barnieh as Vice President of Development, BBC Studios Kids...

FCC directs b’band providers to display labels to empower consumers

American communications services-related converged regulator Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has unveiled new rules that will for the first time require broadband providers to display easy-to- understand point of sales (POS) labels to allow consumers to co...

Piyush Goyal calls for contemporary M&E rules, self-regulation

India’s Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, and Textiles Piyush Goyal called for self-regulation within the country’s media and entertainment industry with regard to content, while adding sector-specific rule...

Meta appoints Sandhya Devanathan to lead India ops

Social media giant Meta has appointed Sandhya Devanathan as the Vice President of Meta India, the company said on Thursday. She comes in place of Ajit Mohan who resigned from Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, early this month. "I'm pleased...

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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!