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Disney names Spotify Exec Horacio Gutierrez as General Counsel

Walt Disney Co. has named Horacio Gutierrez as senior executive VP, general counsel and secretary for the company, succeeding Alan Braverman, who is retiring after nearly two decades as General Counsel at the end of the year,...

Russia slaps nearly $ 100 mn. fine on Google over content

A Moscow court on Friday said it was fining Alphabet's Google 7.2 billion roubles ($98 million) for what it said was a repeated failure to delete content Russia deems illegal, the first revenue-based fine o...

AT&T to sell ad solutions company Xandr to Microsoft

After having announced that it’s selling its TV business assets to Discovery, which incidentally got clearance from the European Commission antitrust body earlier this week, AT&T now has said it is shed...

Zee Zest launches new web platform

The International, 24-hour food and lifestyle television channel Zee Zest, has launched a new website with its unique and differentiated content.

BARC Rating 50th Week: Sun TV maintains lead position in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 50th Week (11th December – 17th December 2021) has released its report. In India, Sun TV is continued to dominate the list of top 10 channels for the past four weeks across all genres (All India 2+), the channel registered 2748.43 impressions, Star Maa ...

BARC report: Nov-21 displays steady growth of TV ads, brands

Television ad volumes continued to showcase steady growth with 156 million-seconds in November 2021, three percent higher than November 2020 and 31 percent higher than November 2019, according to ‘BARC India THINK Report- Ad Volumes Nov. ’21.

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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!