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NCLT withdraws nod for Zee-Sony merger

The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has withdrawn its previous approval for the merger between Zee Entertainment Enterprises and Sony Group Corporation's India media units, Culver Max Entertainment and Bangla Entertainment, The Economic Times reported. This decision, passed by the Mumbai bench on September 5, effectively halts the merger...

‘Dil Se Doordarshan DD@65’ show on Sept 15 to mark anniversary

Even as India’s public broadcaster Doordarshan readies for new challenges and opportunities in a digital age and changing geo-political landscape, it’s anyway time to celebrate and highlight the journey till now as the pubcaster marks its 65^th anniversary that falls on September 15.

Zee Media onboards Rajesh Sareen as CRO

Zee Media Corporation Limited (ZMCL) has appointmented Rajesh Sareen as its Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), responsible for driving the company’s revenue strategies, enhancing existing revenue streams and building new business opportunities across television, digital, and print platforms.

Chrome DM spotlights Brandpulse Global in KL meet

Brandpulse Global, the dynamic new vertical of Chrome DM, recently made headlines at its international conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Led by Riya Maity, this offsite event was a significant milestone, bringing together managers and senior leaders to celebrate achievements and plan for future growth. According to a press release, t...

PIL seeks autonomous body to regulate OTT content

A PIL was filed on Tuesday in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Centre to set up an autonomous body to ‘monitor and filter’ content and regulate videos on over-the-top (OTT) and other platforms in India. The PIL also referred to the

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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!