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DD National pet show wins ENBA Award 2021

Yet again, proving its mettle when it comes to production of quality content that matters, Doordarshan has won ENBA Award 2021 for the best in-depth Hindi series.

TV series based on pet care ‘Best Friend Forever’ on Doordarshan has won big at the 14th edition of the Exchange4media Ne...

Kush Kapoor joins Zee Media Digital as VP

Zee Media Corporation has appointed Kush Kapoor as the new vice president-Zee Media Digital, the news shared by Kush on his LinkedIn account. He will be responsible for handling the business for Zee Media Digital where he will monetize products such as Zee News, Zee Business, India.com, DNA, WION, Boll...

Adani group incorporates media subsidiary

Adani Enterprises Ltd (AEL) has announced the incorporation of its subsidiary AMG Media Networks.

The wholly-owned subsidiary (WOS) will start its business operations in due course, it was announced Wednesday --- a day when another Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industri...

Vice-President Naidu bemoans falling standards of TV debate

India’s Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday called upon the media to follow values of ethical journalism and be responsible in their coverage of news, while exhorting it to self-regulate. Expressing his concern over the tendency to exaggerate and sensationalise news, he said that it tantamount to misinforming the public. At times, s...

Bodhi Tree to invest $1.78 bn in Viacom18; Reliance to pump in $216 mn

Reliance and Viacom18 on Wednesday announced a mouthwatering and potentially disrupting strategic partnership with Bodhi Tree Systems, which is a platform of James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems and Uday Shankar, to form one of the largest TV and digital streaming companies in India.

iTV Network appoints Sudhir S Raval as consulting editor

iTV Network has announced the appointment of Sudhir S Raval as Consulting Editor. Raval is a veteran journalist, columnist, and political analyst from Gujarat and has an experience of around three decades. He has a stronghold in investigative journalism, research and reference, election coverage, surveys, data- analysis, and parliamentary ...

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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!