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Sonal Poddar joins Jio Platforms as marketing lead

Jio Platforms, India’s leading multinational technology company and a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, has appointed Sonal Poddar as the Lead, Product Marketing and Public Relations for 5G. Sonal updated her LinkedIn profile. Sonal worked as a Marketing Lead at Hungama.com Pv...

AVIA appoints Gregory Ho as senior advisor

Gregory Ho, a corporate communications and branding media veteran, has been named Senior Advisor to the Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA), an Asian media trade body.

Ho will work closely with AVIA CEO Louis Boswell and the teams in Singapore and Hong Kong, focusing on the cur...

Odisha Television Network appoints Arun Ghosh as Head of Content

Odisha Television Network (OTN) has appointed Arun Ghosh as the Head of Content for Tarang TV which is Odisha’s largest leading GEC. Arun updated his LinkedIn profi...

India mandates tobacco warnings in OTT platforms’ shows

The Union Health Ministry today notified new rules for anti-tobacco warnings on OTT platforms that if the publisher of online content fails to comply with new rules then the ministry will take strict action. India has become a global leader in spreading awareness around the deadly effects of tobacco consumption after regulating anti-tobacco w...

News18 Bihar/Jharkhand launches anti-dowry campaign – ‘Dahej Naa Dem’

News18 Bihar/Jharkhand has launched the anti-dowry campaign 'Dahej Naa Dem'. This initiative aims to raise awareness about the harmful dowry system that exists in our society and to foster a shift in mindset to eliminate this social curse. Dowry has long been a source of pain and injustice in our socie...

Disney Star’s Arjun Kohli joins Viacom18 Sports

Arjun Kohli has joined Viacom18 Sports as Director of Sales – TV & Digital (JioCinema), according to his LinkedIn post. In his new role, he will be an integral part of the ad sales team. Kohli previously worked at Disney Star as an Account Director for Star Sports Network. He was instrumental in managing corporate sponsorships for 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!