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IAA honours Avinash Pandey with ‘Media Person of the Year’ award

Avinash Pandey, CEO of ABP Network, has won the ‘Media Person of the Year’ award at the 9th edition of ‘IAA Leadership Awards for Excellence in Marketing, Advertising and Media.’ The felicitation ceremony took place on July 25 in Mumbai. The International Advertising Association (IAA) Leadership Awards are given annually to individuals who...

Bharat24 beefs up editorial room; ropes in prominent anchors

Bharat 24, an upcoming national Hindi news channel has further strengthened its editorial team with the appointment of popular Hindi news anchors Mimansa Malik, Sachin Arora, and Poornima Mishra ahead of its launch next month. Malik had announced her departure from Zee News on Saturday itself and, according to indus...

CNN appoints Kristine Coratti to lead global communication

Kristine Coratti Kelly, CCO of the Washington Post, is joining CNN Worldwide as the network's head of global communications. Kelly will head CNN's brand strategy and teams beginning next month, covering media relations and publicity, creative marketing, events and brand initiatives, and employee and external communications. According to Th...

TV9 Bharatvarsh managing ed Sant Prasad may join ABP News

TV9 Bharatvarsh news channel managing editor Sant Prasad, who was relieved of his duties on Saturday, is likely to join ABP News, even as TV9 Network announced an editorial restructuring of its TV and digital services.

In another development, anchor Mimansa Malik, who has been associ...

For unbiased news, people tune into AIR and DD: Minister

India’s Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur had advised the media needs to introspect its role if wrong perceptions were being created.

Thakur was speaking at a function on the occasion of National Broadcasting Day, which is celebrated every year on July 23 to mar...

Rachin Khanijo joins SET as Marketing Head

Sony Pictures Networks India has appointed Rachin Khanijo as the Marketing Head of Sony Entertainment Television (SET). Khanijo comes from Beginnen Media where he was the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). At Beginnen Media, he was responsible for Marketing, On-Air Promotions, Research, Corporate & ...

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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!