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Zee24 Ghanta appoints Gautam Bhattacharya as editor

Zee Media Corporation has appointed Gautam Bhattacharya, a renowned sports journalist, as the editor of its regional channel Zee 24 Ghanta. The news was shared by Gautam on his LinkedIn account. In his new role, he will be presiding over the input and output of all content for the channel along with its digital properties and drive the gro...

Madison Media appoints Vinit Kumar as VP

Madison Media has announced the appointment of Vinit Kumar as vice president (VP), in Delhi, the news was shared by Vinit through his LinkedIn post. Vinit will report to Abhik Banerjee, chief operating officer, Madison Media Plus. Kumar has over 16 years of experience in all facets of media ranging from integrated marketing communications,...

N Chandrasekaran named chairman of Tata Digital

Tata Sons executive chairman N Chandrasekaran has formally taken charge as chairman of Tata Digital, which announced the launch of its much-hyped super app Tata Neu on April 7. Tata Digital is the brainchild of Chandrasekaran, who was reappointed as the chairman of Tata Sons for another five years in February. He has been closely involved ...

Sandeep Pillai joins Zee as Marketing Director

Sandeep Pillai has joined Zee as the Director of Marketing for Zing, according to his LinkedIn post. Pillai was earlier with Times Network as Deputy General Manager at Movies Now MN+ and MNX. He was with Times for eight years. Announcing his new role with Zee, Pillai wrote on LinkedIn, “I am happy to share that I have started a new positio...

MX Player appoints Dina D’Souza as senior VP

Dina D’Souza has joined MX Player as senior vice president, according to her LinkedIn post. In her new role, she will be driving the Direct and the OTT AVOD business for the organization. Dina brings with her 20 years of experience across print, digital, ad tech, gaming, and commerce industries. Her previous assignments have involved le...

Jon Steinlauf to lead ad sales for Warner Bros. Discovery

Warner Bros. Discovery continues to outline its top executive ranks ahead of its expected merger. On Friday, the company said that Jon Steinlauf will oversee advertising sales for the combined company. Steinlauf will report to Bruce Campbell, ...

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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!