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Murugan: Film Bazaar ‘bridge between creators, producers’

The WAVES Film Bazaar, South Asia’s global film market, opened yesterday in Panjim, Goa with an inspiring inaugural ceremony attended by a distinguished gathering of leaders, policymakers, filmmakers and global delegates.

Held annually alongside the prestigious International Film Fes...

IFFI opening turns Goa streets into open-air cultural carnival

The 56^th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) opened its 2025 edition yesterday in Goa with an unprecedented, citywide celebration that spilled out of auditoriums and onto the streets. In its first-ever open-city ...

Tushar Shah to exit SPNI after 16 years

Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI) has announced that Tushar Shah, its Chief Marketing Officer and Business Head for Movies, Regional, FTA and Infotainment Channels, will step down from the organisation after a long and impactful tenure. His last working da...

CNN-News18 tops English news viewership on Bihar election result day

CNN-News18 strengthened its hold over the English news genre during the Bihar election result day, emerging as the most-watched channel throughout the high-stakes political coverage. The strong performance reaffirmed the channel’s dominance at a time when viewer interest peaked across the country. According to the channel’s report based on BA...

HGS reappoints Vynsley Fernandes as Whole-Time Director, CEO of media business

Hinduja Global Solutions Limited (HGS) has approved the reappointment of Vynsley Fernandes as Whole-time Director and Chief Executive Officer of its Media Business for a further term of three years. The decision was cleared at the company’s Board meeting held ea...

Prasar Bharati invites satellite TV channels to stream on WAVES

Prasar Bharati has issued a public notice inviting permitted satellite television channels to join its OTT platform, WAVES, for a one-year period. The notification, released on November 17, 2025, outlines eligibility, technical requirements and the revenue model for broadcasters seeking to onboard their channels. According to the notice, o...

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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!