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JioHotstar names Debasmita Ghosh as VP – Agency Business

JioHotstar has appointed Debasmita Ghosh as its new vice president agency business, with the Bengaluru-based executive stepping into the role after a successful two-year stint at Disney+ Hotstar. At Disney+Hotstar, she served as director and head of agency relations, leading strategic sales teams and strengthening the platform’s proposition f...

JioStar’s Aru, MPA’s Couto elected as new directors to AVIA board

The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) has announced the election of two new Board Directors — K. Aravamudhan, Executive Vice President, Public Policy & Legal at JioStar, and Vivek Couto, Co-Founder, CEO and Executive Director of Media Partners Asia. Both leaders bring decades of industry experience and a strong grasp of the evolving ...

Paramount ups the stakes with $108bn hostile WBD bid

Paramount Skydance's 11th-hour, hostile $108.4 billion bid for Warner Bros Discovery was rooted in what it considered a lack of responsiveness from Warner Bros to its ardent overtures late last week, a securities filing yesterday showed. According to a Reuters report, Paramount offered a blow-by-blow account of Paramount CEO David Ellison's c...

Is JioStar getting out of India cricket deal with ICC?

The International Cricket Council is staring at a fresh crisis ahead of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026, with Reliance-controlled Reliance Industries-backed JioStar formally informing the global body that it cannot continue servicing the remaining two years o...

Netflix-WBD deal faces anti-trust, political pushback

Some members of Congress on Friday deemed Netflix's $72 billion proposed acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery's studios and streaming unit an antitrust "nightmare" for consumers and creatives, while the company touted the deal as driving value for viewers, workers and shareholders. Netflix

Studio9 earns India’s first-ever OTT documentary win at Asian Television Awards 2025

Studio9, the in-house production arm of TV9 Network, has created history by bringing home India’s first-ever win in the OTT documentary programme category at the 30th Asian Television Awards 2025 held in Singapore. The landmark achievement comes through its documentary Fanatics, commissioned by

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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!