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Manasi Sapre joins Zee5 as Head, Content Management

Former Vuclip Sr. Director- Content Manasi has joined Zee5 as Head, Content management. Before joining Zee5, Manasi was with Vuclip for over three years, where she looked after the content strategy and programming on the Viu app and a...

Amit Kumar Sinha joins SonyLIV as Head- Pricing & Revenue Strategy

Star India AVP, Product & Revenue Strategy, Amit Kumar Sinha has resigned from his post after an almost 10-year working experience and joined SonyLIV as Head- Pricing & Revenue Strategy. With almost 15 years of experience, Sinha has also worked with

Rahul Sarangi joins Disney + Hotstar as VP

MX Player Vice President & Head- New Business, Rahul Sarangi has resigned from his post and joined Disney + Hotstar as Vice President- Head of Short Form & New Content Initiatives. Rahul has nearly two decades of experience across digital and linear content as well as production a...

Network18 Digital appoints Siddharth Raj Jain as CTO

The country’s premier multilingual digital news platform, Network18, has announced the appointment of Siddharth Raj Jain as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Network18 Digital. Siddharth will lead all t...

Vodafone Idea appoints Sanjay Jolly as Executive Vice President

Telecom company, Vodafone Idea (VI) has appointed Sanjay Jolly as the new Executive Vice President of the company, confirmed by the company’s Linkedin post. The telco company stated in a Linkedin post, "Sanjay is a seasoned professional who has worked a lot and has knowledge and experience of leading c...

BARC Rating 19th Week: Star Plus, ‘Ghum Hai Kisi Key Pyaar Me’ leads again

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 19th week (8th May 2021 - 14th May 2021) will release the report of TRP. In the urban market, Star Plus's popular drama ‘Ghum Hai Kisi Key Pyaar Me’ topped the list of

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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!