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Disney + Hotstar appoints Nishant Tandon as AVP-growth

Streaming platform Disney + Hotstar has announced the appointment of Nishant Tandon as AVP-growth, according to his LinkedIn post. He wrote, “After a 6-year long stint with V18 and Voot, moving back to the group where it all began. Though I am sad that I will not be working with people whom I have called friends for a long while, I look forwa...

Rolly Kapoor joins Quint as VP & National Sales Head

Rolly Kapoor has joined the English and Hindi language Indian general news and opinion website Quint as VP & National Sales Head. The news was shared by Rolly on her LinkedIn account. Prior to Quint, she was the vice preside...

BBH India MD Arvind Krishnan

Arvind Krishnan, managing director at BBH India, has quit the agency. BBH India confirmed the development. Krishnan’s immediate professional plans are unknown at the moment. Krishnan’s advertising career spans close to two decad...

FreeDish emerges as platform for national outreach: Prasar Bharati

Public and national outreach to the masses across India through television has received a tremendous boost with the DD FreeDish platform. Staying true to its public service mandate, Prasar Bharati’s FreeDish had stood out in serving the people during the pandemic by enabling massive public outreach and dissemination ...

Nitin Bawankule quits DisneyStar

Nitin Bawankule, head of ad sales at DisneyStar has stepped down from his post after a stint of 2.5 years. He is expected to join Amazon next month. According to Economic Times, Bawankule is serving his notice period and April 22 is his last day at the company. DisneyStar has seen multiple senior-level exits in the last year, the most rece...

Netflix elevates Ankit Gokani as India director-VFX

Streaming service Netflix has elevated Ankit Gokani as India director – VFX, according to his LinkedIn update. Gokarni has been associated with the streaming platform for more than three years. He joined Netflix as a VFX specialist – international

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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!