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Gaming a core pillar of India’s M&E economy: MIB Secy Jaju

“Gaming now forms a very important pillar and part of the overall digital media and entertainment landscape,” said Sanjay Jaju, Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, while speaking at Storyboard18’s Digital Entertainment Summit (DES) 2025 yesterday. His remarks underscored gaming’s rise from a niche hobby to a major force withi...

Gaurav Banerjee takes over as Chairman of BARC India

Gaurav Banerjee, Managing Director and CEO of Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI), has been appointed the new Chairman of the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India. His app...

NDTV COO Anil Uniyal steps down after two-year tenure

Anil Uniyal has resigned as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of NDTV, marking the end of his two-year stint with the network. His departure comes at a time of transition and renewed focus for the legacy media house, which has been undergoing internal restructuring and strategic realignment.

Uniyal formally stepped...

Sindhuja Rai joins WPP Media as Chief Client Officer for APMEA Region

WPP Media has announced the appointment of Sindhuja Rai as its Chief Client Officer for the Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa (APMEA) region. The announcement was made through a LinkedIn update, underscoring the company's continued focus on strengthening its leadership bench and client-centric strategy across k...

Siti Networks, NXTDIGITAL quit industry body AIDCF

Even as the digital MSOs’ industry organisation AIDCF released on June 9 a status report on the Indian cable TV sector that highlighted the need for urgent interventions for rejuvenating a stagnating sector, news filters in that cracks have appeared in the trade body itself.

Two majo...

Sai Abishek named Head of Factual, Lifestyle & Kids for South Asia at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery has announced the elevation of Sai Abishek P R to the role of Head of Factual Entertainment, Lifestyle & Kids, South Asia, marking a significant development in the company’s strategic content leadership across the region. In this expanded position, Abishek will now spearhead content strategy, programming, and business ...

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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!