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Mandar Naik joins Viacom18 as director- revenue strategy and planning

Sony Pictures Network India, senior manager – strategic planning and research, Mandar Naik has resigned from his post after an almost 5-year working experience and joined Viacom18 as director – revenue strategy and ...

Susan Arnold named first woman chairman of Disney board

Walt Disney has announced the appointment of Susan E. Arnold as its new Chairman of the Board, effective December 31, 2021. This is the first time that the entertainment giant has elected a woman to this position in...

Havas Group India promotes Arindam Sengupta, Prashant Tekwani

The global marketing and communication group Havas Creative Group India, has announced a restructuring of its senior leadership team at Havas Worldwide (Creative) India. Effective immediately, Arindam Sengupta, managing pa...

NBF partners with Deloitte on performance reward analysis

News Broadcasters Federation (NBF) has partnered with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP (Deloitte India), a large multinational professional services organisation, to launch an integrated performance and rewards forum for the news broadcasting s...

Netflix India elevates Pritish Wesley as head, creative marketing production

Streaming service Netflix India has elevated Pritish Wesley as head of creative marketing production. Pritish has been with Netflix for the last 3 years, beginning March 2018 as a creative marketing producer. Before joining Netflix, he served...

Viacom18 elevates Mallika Petkar as SVP, Sports

Viacom18 has elevated Mallika Petkar as senior vice president (SVP) – Sports. This development comes when the media and entertainment network is looking to expand its presence in the sports broadcasting segment. The news was shar...

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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!