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Viacom18 appoints Vipul Nagar as Biz Head, Colors Gujarati

Viacom18 has announced the appointment of Vipul Nagar as Business Head. He will be responsible for managing the overall business and operations for Colors Gujarati and Colors Gujarati Cinema, and will be reporting to Rajesh Iyer, Head,

TRAI names TEC to carry out certification of DPOs’ CAS, SMS

India’s broadcast and telecoms regulator TRAI said on Monday that Telecommunications Engineering Centre, a federal government organization, would be the designated testing and certification agency for conditional access and subscriber management systems of the

IAMAI flays Karnataka Bill banning online games

Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), an industry lobbying body for digital companies, Monday said that the South India State of Karnataka Bill proposing a ban on online games was badly drafted and not progressive.

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Priyanka Chopra apologises for The Activist; show format changed

Even as CBS and Global Citizen-produced reality show The Activist, which pitted activists against each other in front of a panel of celebrity judges, itself became the target of online activism and got engulfed in a PR firestorm, one of the judges has ap...

India SVoD subs to be 157 mn by 2026: Digital TV Research

Asia Pacific will likely have 698 million SVoD subscriptions by 2026, up from 502 million at end-2021, a new report from Digital TV Research said.

Out of this expansion in SVoD customers, C...

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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!