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Deepti Sachdeva quits Republic TV

Republic TV senior editor Deepti Sachdeva has stepped down from her post after a stint of over five years, according to her LinkedIn post. Deepti has also quit the network in October 2019 and rejoined the network in January 2021...

TV9 Bangla receives appreciation for telethon

TV9 Bangaliana telethon, the first-of-its-kind programme in Bengali television has proved to be a grand success with its participants in India and abroad lauding its initiative, content, and style of presentation. The telethon was designed to celebrate TV9 Bangla’s first anniversary. It focused on the achievements of Bengalis across the globe...

India TV gets a new look

India’s leading Hindi news channel India TV will don a new look from tomorrow, February 18. “The channel’s refreshed look coincides with its chairman and editor-in-chief Rajat Sharma’s birthday on Friday. It comes at a time when the country is glued to the news channels for minute-to-minute coverage on Assembly elections taking place in five ...

Republic CEO Khanchandani to review options after quitting

Republic Media Network CEO Vikas Khanchandani, who has put in his papers, is likely to use some of the free time to re-evaluate options, given the fast changing technology and the media landscape.

In the meanwhile, the Arnab Goswami-founded news network announced some leadership chan...

TV9 to launch digital video news mag News9 Plus

Expanding the horizons of the digital medium, the multi-lingual TV9 Network is launching News9 Plus, an English video news magazine in an OTT format.

The digital descendent of News9, the network’s erstwhile

ABP Network marks 50% growth in total unique visitors – Comscore data

ABP Network’s growth story continues and shows how the trailblazer in the digital space has emerged as a leader in a short span. As per Comscore’s ‘MMX users’ growth’ report says, ABP Network has grown approximately four times in the last four years – at twice the rate of the overall news category growth. The network’s growth between Novem...

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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!