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Nachiket Pantvaidya quits Balaji Telefilms

Nachiket Pantvaidya, chief executive officer at Balaji Telefilms has stepped down from his post after a stint of one year. “Pursuant to Regulation 30 of Listing Regulations, we would like to inform you that the Board of Directors at their Meeting held today i.e. May 20, 2022, through Video Conferencing (“VC”) / Other Audio-Visual Means (“OAVM...

Vodafone Idea launches new campaign to stem user loss

In its continuing bid to stem subscriber loss, Vodafone India has launched the ‘Vi Hero Unlimited Campaign’ with the proposition, ‘Data Delight’. Under the new proposition, Vi users can unlock up to 2GB of extra data every month, over and above their daily quota, at no extra cost. The Vi Hero Unlimited portfolio a...

Poonam Dhillon’s daughter Paloma to debut with Rajshri film

Veteran actor Poonam Dhillon's daughter Paloma has been roped in to feature in filmmaker Sooraj R Barjatya's upcoming production, the makers announced on Friday. Billed as a coming-of-age love story, the Rajshri Productions movie also marks acting debut of Rajveer Deol, the younger son of actor-politician Sunny De...

Watcho brings a new web show

Dish TV India’s OTT platform Watcho has launched a new comedy series called ‘The Morning Show’, which stars Ali Asgar, Siddharth Sagar, Vanshika Sharma, Parree Pande, Rahul Grover, Mukesh Sharma, and Nazish Mann. The show revolves around the individuals that go to the gym every day. The CCTV camera snoopi...

HITS launches on Airtel Digital TV

Airtel Digital TV has announced the arrival of its news channel, Airtel HITS HD. Featuring a selection of some of the most popular, iconic, and award-winning Hollywood television content from the 60s to the early 2000s, the channel aims to take viewers in India on a trip down memory lane. HITS will launch on Airtel Digital TV on May 20. It...

Vamsi Murth joins Disney + Hotstar as ED, head content marketing

Disney + Hotstar has appointed Vamsi Murthy as executive director and head of content and partnerships, he announced his new role on his LinkedIn account. Vamsi was previously associated with BookMyShow as head of marketing from May 2021. He has been associated with Zee5 as vice president of marketing, Myntra Jabong as director of brand 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!