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Anuj Gandhi turns entrepreneur with Plug & Play Entertainment

Media distribution veteran Anuj Gandhi has become the founder of Plug and Play Entertainment, a privately incorporated company. Gandhi joins the company in July 2022 with his co-founder Rohit Jain. In 2021, Gandhi was the Group CEO of IndiaCast Media Distribution, which is the content monetization arm of TV18 and

No proposal to harmonise TRAI powers with other laws: Thakur

The Indian government on Tuesday said it is not considering to ‘harmonise’ telecom and broadcast regulator TRAI’s powers with any other law, including IP rules. “There is no proposal under consideration of the government to harmonise the regulatory powers of

No proposal to enact new law to regulate digital media: IT Minister

The Indian government on Friday said there was no proposal presently under its consideration to enact a law to regulate digital media. “No proposal to enact a separate law to regulate the digital media is currently under consideration of the government,” Minister of State for Electroni...

Govt. 5-yr spend on ad, publicity Rs. 3,723 cr, which hasn’t increased: Thakur

Government has spent a total of Rs. 3,723.38 crore on advertisement of its policies and programmes over the past five years through the Central Bureau of Communication, Rajya Sabha (Upper House) was informed on Thursday. In a written reply, Information and Broadcasting Minister An...

MeitY, Google to help 100 Indian start-ups apps

On Wednesday, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Startup Hub and Google announced that the second iteration of app scale academy would assist 100 additional Indian firms in growing their app businesses. Currently, tier 2 and tier 3 cities account for close to 50 percent of st...

Public service messages on TV channels ‘voluntary’: Anurag Thakur

The government has finally put to rest the speculations and angst surrounding the daily 30 minutes public service messaging on TV channels, which was earlier said to be mandatory, by saying it would be ‘voluntary’.

The directive on public service messaging on private sector TV channe...

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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!