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BBC Studios appoints Alex Gale to make non-scripted content

BBC Studios International Production has appointed a first-look development deal with the award-winning documentary maker Alex Gale. Where Alex was co-develop the premium non-scripted content with BBC studios local production companies in Australia, India, South Africa, and Germany. These develo...

Director of Fame India Magazine US Sonthalia passes away due to Covid19

The director/CEO of the renowned magazine 'Fame India' Uma Shankar Sonthalia passed away on Monday due to Covid19 related complications. Fame India is an E-Magazine that is popular among 4 lakh readers and extensively covers off-beat stories and publishes ratings & surveys of prominent personal...

Rahul Kanwal upraised to executive director of Business Today

India Today Group has upraised Rahul Kanwal to the role of executive director of its business magazine, Business Today. The new business responsibility is in addition to his current role as news director of the biggest news channels Aaj Tak and Ind...

iTV Network revamps its sales team

The Hindi news channel, iTV Network has revamped and strengthened its sales team. Meenakshi Singh has been elevated as President Govt Sales and Retail for India News, iTV Network. She brings a broad range of 21 years of e...

ShortsTV will be aired in Nepal

SVoD platform ShortsTV has looted into Nepal in partnership with leading DTHplatform DishHome and Cable TV operator SimTV. ShortsTV is the first-ever curated platform for short stories and films in Nepal, providing over 900 hours of unconventio...

Asianet News Media & Entertainment appoints Nachiket Pantvaidya as MD

Asianet News Media & Entertainment Pvt Ltd (AMEL) has appointed the media veteran Nachiket Pantvaidya as managing director. AMEL has multiple digital brands in its portfolio including asianetnews.com, indigomusic.com, etc, and serves consumers in multiple languages. Nachiket was 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!