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Twitter-Musk saga set for another twist; original $43 bn offer back on table

The Twitter-Elon Musk saga is throwing up more twists and turns than the kitchen soap operas that dotted the Indian television in the 2000s. Twitter Inc. is poised to agree to a sale to Elon Musk for around $43 billion in cash, the price the chief executive of Tesla Inc. has called his "best and final" offer for the social media company, peop...

CNN-News18 launches new series

India’s leading English news channel, CNN-News18 is bringing an all-new series, focusing on the rise of these unicorns through ‘Bits to Billions – The Unicorn Story’. Each episode of the show will bring inside stories of Unicorns, their success, failures, and blood, toil, and sweat they have put in to reach the pinnacle of their respective se...

Sreenivasan made Republic’s branded content head

Republic has appointed Anand Sreenivasan as National Head – Branded Content. Sreenivasan will be leading Fluid, which is the branded content vertical of the Republic Media Network. With an overall experience of more than 16 years, Sreenivasan has led media organizations like ZoomTV, UTV, Sony, and A+E | TV18. According to the press rele...

Nickelodeon unveils new shows as it dominates kids genre in India

Building the category through immersive storytelling and path-breaking innovation, Viacom18’s kids’ franchise, Nickelodeon has established leadership in the kids’ entertainment space and enjoys a cumulative network share of 32 percent within the genre. The franchise on Wednesday delivers the highest reach of 48 million kids per week and boast...

Zee24 Ghanta appoints Gautam Bhattacharya as editor

Zee Media Corporation has appointed Gautam Bhattacharya, a renowned sports journalist, as the editor of its regional channel Zee 24 Ghanta. The news was shared by Gautam on his LinkedIn account. In his new role, he will be presiding over the input and output of all content for the channel along with its digital properties and drive the gro...

YouTube launches new ‘Search Insights’

The American video platform YouTube, has announced that it's rolling out its new Search Insights feature to all creators, which will provide a range of new data points to help refine your YouTube strategy, based on what people are looking for in the app. YouTube initially provided an overview of Search Insights in November last year, which wi...

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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!