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Zee gets relief at NCLAT in fight against foreign investors

Companies’ court appellate tribunal NCLAT on Thursday granted a breather to Zee Entertainment in its fight against foreign insti...

Zee moves NCLAT; Subhash Chandra questions investors’ motives

Even as Zee Entertainment approached on Wednesday an appellate tribunal in a case brought by two institutional investors calling for a shareholders' meet, company’s founder and media moghul Subhash Chandra upped the ante by questioning investor Invesco’s motives and hinted at a Chinese hand behind the takeover bid of...

Media Sector – TV Industry Channel Check Series – Update & Our view

We conducted channel checks across various segments of TV/digital to gauge near term business prospects and impact of Sony/Zee merger if it goes through; enclosed below are some snippets from our conference

Snippets from our channel check series (TV industry and Zee/Sony Merger) and our view

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Avoiding clash with big films, ‘Rashmi Rocket’ to debut on Zee5

His upcoming film ‘Rashmi Rocket’ draws inspiration from not one but many women athletes who are subjected to the archaic but "

On 29th anniversary, Zee moves Mumbai court against investors

Even as India’s first homegrown private sector media company Zee Entertainment Enterprises celebrated its 29^thanniversary --- a landmark indeed --- on October 2, the company also moved the

Zee Board rejects shareholders demand for EGM

The Board of India's Zee Entertainment on Friday rejected requests from two institutional investors for a meeting of shareholders, setting the stage for a courtroom battle that could impact an impending merger with

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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!