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Viacom18 appoints Anil Jayaraj as CEO Sports

Viacom18 on Thursday announced the appointment of Anil Jayaraj as CEO – Sports. This development comes when the media and entertainment network is looking to expand its presence in the sports broadcasting segment. He will be leading the company's foray into acquisition,

Amazon miniTV new short film Shimmy to release Sept. 17

Streaming platform Amazon miniTV is set to release its new short film titled Shimmy, featuring Pratik Gandhi and Chahat Te...

Zee Media appoints Rajnish Ahuja as Zee News Editor, CCO of India.com

The media and entertainment powerhouse, Zee Media Corporation Limited has appointed Rajnish Ahuja as Editor of Zee News and Chief Content Officer (CCO) of India.com websites. Rajnish shared this information on his LinkedIn page. He will be responsible for accelerating and strengthen the ch...

Prime Video launches profile avatars inspired by Amazon India Originals

In continuation of Amazon Prime Video’s recently launched global feature, Amazon Original Profile Images, Prime Video customers in India will now be able to take on the persona of their favorite character from Amazon India Originals as their profile avatar on the service. As per the compan...

Manish Chokhani, Ashok Kurien resign from Zee Entertainment board

Manish Chokhani and Ashok Kurien have resigned from Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) on September 13, as Non-Executive, Non-Independent Directors with immediate effect. The company has notified the BSE. As per the BSE filing, Kurien ceased to be a Member of the Corporate Social Res...

NBF demands immediate resumption of audience data for news genre

News Broadcasters Federation (NBF), a lobbying body of TV news channels in India, has written to the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India exhorting the ratings agency to immediately re-start releasing data related to news TV channels. “We, News Broadcasters Federation (NBF), th...

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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!