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15th edition of Goafest kickstarts

Goafest 2022, India’s most definitive advertising, media, and marketing symposium is back after a two-year hiatus, featuring some of the industry’s brightest minds along with prestigious industry awards felicitating notable creative thinkers from South Asia. The festival kickstarted on May 5 with the lighting of the ceremonial lamp and the un...

ABP Group launches centennial celebration campaign

Celebrating 100 years of building and maintaining its reputation, the Kolkata-headquartered ABP Group on Thursday launched a campaign that reflects its remarkable journey through the Indian media space.

As part of the campaign, it also unveiled its centenary logo and a film. Both the...

Alkesh Sharma new Secretary for Ministry of Electronics & IT

Alkesh Kumar Sharma, an Indian Administrative Services Officer of 1990 batch from Kerala cadre, assumed charge as the new Secretary of Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) on Thursday.

Sharma has earlier served as Additional Secretary and Secretary in the Cabi...

Institutions, students central to fulfil India’s M&E vision: Thakur

The Indian government on Thursday said it was undertaking the world’s biggest film restoration project at an estimated budget of Rs. 363 crore under the National Film Heritage Mission, which is in line with PM Modi’s vision for preserving national heritage, while appreciating the work done till now by films and TV in...

Meta removed over 27 mn India content pieces in March

In March, Meta removed about 24.6 million content pieces from Facebook across in India and over 2.7 million pieces of content from Instagram across 12 policies, according to the company’s compliance report. Between March 1 and 31, Meta received 656 reports through Facebook’s Indian grievance mechanism. The company...

Alia Bhatt elated as ‘Gangubai…’ top film on Netflix

Actor Alia Bhatt is extremely happy as her film ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’ has become the top non-English film on Netflix globally. “It’s amazing to see how great stories continue to find new audiences, within India and beyond with Netflix. With all the love that Gangubai Kathiawadi has been receiving from its...

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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!