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Anuradha Aggarwal joins Amazon Pay as CMO

Anuradha Aggarwal has joined Amazon Pay as director, user growth, and CMO. The former head of the English, Infotainment, and Kids cluster at Disney-Star India announced the news on her LinkedIn account. She left Disney-Star in December 2020 and was working part-time as a strategic business advisor to D2C startups till March 2022. She joine...

TRAI issues new consultation paper on b’cast tariff

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Saturday issued a consultation paper on issues related to New Regulatory Framework for Broadcasting and Cable services. In consonance with the complete digitization of the cable TV sector, TRAI on March 3, 2017, notified the ‘New Regulatory Framework’ for Broadcasting and Cable services After pa...

SA’s Supersport, Sky UK buy IPL media rights documents

It’s not just the Indian media companies that are interested in the media rights of IPL cricket. Overseas broadcasters too have evinced interest, looking to exploit the popularity of the game around the globe.

Sky Sports of the UK and Supersport of South Africa are two such foreign b...

WhatsApp rolls out new emoji feature

Popular instant messaging platform WhatsApp is rolling out new features, including message reactions, improved file sharing and increased limit for groups. Emoji reactions are now available on the latest version of the app. Users can react to messages with emojis. “Reactions are fun and fast, and they reduce overload in groups too. We’ll c...

Gave ‘Anek’ my best shot, says Ayushmann Khurrana

Actor Ayushmann Khurrana says his upcoming political action thriller ‘Anek’ allowed him to play a character that pushed him "physically and mentally".

Set against the geopolitical backdrop of North East India, the film stars Khurrana in the role of an undercover cop named Jo...

Sony bags Roland Garros media rights for sub-continent

Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) has bagged the exclusive TV and digital rights to broadcast Roland Garros between 2022-24 in the Indian sub-continent regions. As part of the collaboration, SPN will broadcast the tennis tournament on its sports channels across India and the subcontinent including, Pakistan, Sri ...

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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!