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Ormax Media appoints Sanket Kulkarni as head of business development – theatrical

Ormax Media has announced the appointment of Sanket Kulkarni as head of business development (theatrical). Kulkarni will be in charge of the company's Indian film industry business development and account servicing initiatives. In the areas of content, marketing, and business strategy, he and his t...

Manoj Dobhal takes over as Dish TV CEO

Manoj Dobhal has taken over as the new CEO of India’s first home-grown DTH service, Dish TV. Dhobal said in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday, “Grateful & Thankful to everyone at Dish TV India Ltd. To all stakeholders for ...

Madhuja Banerjee, Rohini Singh set to join Colors TV

Madhuja Banerjee and Rohini Singh are poised to make their mark at Viacom18, as they join Colors TV in pivotal programming positions. Industry sources indicate that Banerjee, the former head of Hoichoi Originals, is set to take the reins as the programming head for

Disney Star elevates Vishal Kaul; to oversee PKL

Vishal Kaul has been elevated to associate director of Marketing and Head of Marketing for Pro Kabaddi League (Mashal Sports) at Disney Star. Kaul announced the development on LinkedIn: "I'm delighted to share that I have been elevated to Associate Director Mark...

IT Minister urges Opposition parties to debate Data Protection Bill

Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, called on the Opposition to act responsibly and participate in the upcoming debate on the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) bill, scheduled to be ...

MIB advises Chrome DM to stop making public TRPs

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has issued a show cause notice to Chrome Data Analytics and Media (CDAM), accusing them of releasing and commercially utilizing TV channel rating data without proper registration as a rating agency. According to the notice from the I&B, CDAM's actions hav...

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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!