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Viacom18 appoints Aniket Joshi as Business Head for Colors Marathi

Viacom18, on Thursday, announced the appointment of Aniket Joshi as Business Head for Colors Marathi. He will be responsible for managing the channel’s overall business strategy and operations and will be reporting to Ravish Kumar, Head – Regi...

DistroTV partners with Raj Nayak’s House of Cheer to onboard S. Asian channels

DistroTV, a division of the California-based media technology company DistroScale and that claims a prominent stake in the free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) revolution, is partnering with Mumbai-based House of Cheers, founded by former Viacom18 COO Raj Nayak, to onboard South Asian TV ch...

Nikhil Gandhi joins MX Player as COO

Veteran media industry executive Nikhil Gandhi has joined MX Player as Chief Operating Officer (COO), after 1.5 years of a stint as the Head of ByteDance-owned short video app TikTok where he was leading its growth in the Middle East, Turk...

HC to hear FB, WhatsApp appeal in Oct

The Delhi High Court on Friday said it will hear in October the appeals of Facebook and WhatsApp challenging its single-judge order dismissing their pleas against the probe ordered by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) into the inst...

Madras HC directs formation of State-level Press Council in Tamilnadu

In what could further complicate media matters in India --- a new digital regulation has been challenged in several high courts with a couple of them passing interim relief too to petitioners --- the

IBF’s self-regulatory body BCCC gets MIB nod under amended cable TV rules

India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has granted approval to the Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC) of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation as the level II self-regula...

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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!