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Disney’s board backs CEO Bob Chapek, extends his contract

The Disney board of directors has unanimously voted to extend Bob Chapek’s contract as CEO for three more years. Chapek, 63, has had a nearly 30-year career at Disney. Chapek became the 7th CEO in Disney’s nearly 100-year history just weeks before the ...

41% hike in complaints on misleading ads featuring celebs: ASCI

The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) has said while complaints against influencers and digital medium has increased substantially, those related to misleading ads featuring celebs spiked 41 percent with a staggering 92 percent found to be violating the industry watchdog’s guidelines. ASCI released its annual complaints report for...

DD Sports to air India vs. WI cricket tour

From July 22 to August 7, India will tour the West Indies for a limited-overs series. It has been officially announced that the nation’s ardent cricket fans will be able to watch the whole India tour of the West Indies on DD Sports on all Cable & DTH platfor...

OMTV appoints Sahil Kiran head of business, strategy

OMTV, India’s first sanatan storytelling platform, today announced the appointment of Sahil Kiran Vaidya as head of business and strategy. In his new role, Sahil will take care of the overall growth of the company via various associations and collaborations i...

Pushpendra Singh joins Viacom18 as CPO-Sports

Viacom18 has appointed Pushpendra Singh as Chief Product Officer (CPO)- Sports. Singh shared this information on his LinkedIn page. He will be leading the company’s foray into the acquisition, broadcasting, and monetization of sports properties. Sharing the news on Friday, Singh wrote, “Super stoked to announce my new stint as Chief...

Jawahar Goel steps down as Dish TV MD

Jawahar Goel on Friday stepped down as managing director of India’s first private sector DTH platform Dish TV after an EGM of the company, according to regulatory filings.

“Mr. Jawahar Lal Goel vacates office of Managing Director of the Company. He continues as a Non-Executive Direct...

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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!