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Gaurav Dwivedi on empowering India’s storytellers through WAVES OTT

It was a nostalgic yet forward-looking keynote by Gaurav Dwivedi, CEO of Prasar Bharati, at the World Audio Visual Entertainment Summit (WAVES) 2025, as he traced India’s public broadcasting journey — from radio’s golden era to the launch of its own OTT pla...

WAVES: Murugan unveils white paper on India live events boom

On the opening day of WAVES 2025 Union Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs, Dr. L. Murugan, prepares to release a groundbreaking white paper titled “India’s Live Events Economy: A Strategic Growth Imperative”. The formal unveiling is scheduled to take place on May 3, 2025, during the presti...

India can lead global entertainment revolution: Mukesh Ambani

In a landmark address at WAVES 2025, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani laid out a bold vision for India to lead the next global entertainment revolution on Thursday. Speaking at the Jio World Centre in Mumbai, Ambani described the event as both “pioneering” and “historic”, capturing the optimism of a nation ready to take ce...

TRAI chief not in favour of separate rules for OTT, legacy b’casters

Broadcasting regulator TRAI on Thursday made it clear that it does not support a scenario where traditional broadcasters are burdened with heavier regulation compared to their OTT counterparts. The remarks were made by TRAI C...

Stakeholder alignment media’s big media challenge: BARC Chairman

At the ongoing WAVES Summit 2025 in Mumbai, Shashi Sinha, Chairman of the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), made a strong and candid pitch for better stakeholder management in India’s media measurement ecosystem, emphasising that the country’s core challenge isn’t about technological capability, but about aligning various ...

Avijit Dhar appointed VP-Marketing for Star Plus

In a significant development within the entertainment and media industry, Avijit Dhar has been elevated to the position of Vice President, Marketing – Star Plus at JioStar.

Dhar, an accomplished marke...

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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!