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Amagi Cloudport enables Horse & Country TV to broadcast Rolex Grand Prix Live
MUMBAI: Horse & Country TV (H&C TV) and Amagi announced successful broadcast of The Rolex Grand Prix Live from the CHIO World Equestrian Festival held at Aachen, Germany on 20 July using Amagi Cloudport, a cloud-enabled remote playout management platform.
Talking about the successful braodcast, H&C TV CEO and chairman Heather Killen said, “At Horse & Country TV, we strive to be in the vanguard of adopting new and efficient technologies such as the Cloudport infrastructure for broadcasting. Along with our playout partner Amagi, we have now demonstrated to the broadcast industry that live events can be managed by remote playout systems.”
Wallace Broadcasting founder and technical advisor to H&C TV John Wallace said “We chose the Amagi channel playout platform as it gave us the flexibility to cost-effectively manage localised playout of different H&C TV channels in individual countries. We now have the desired flexibility and robustness even for live events. Our teams are quite pleased with the event broadcast.”
Rolex Grand Prix from Aachen was broadcast for the first time in the UK by H&C TV. The entire playout was managed remotely by Amagi from its operations center in Bengaluru, India. The CHIO World Equestrian Festival held at Aachen is the first event of the prestigious Rolex Grand Prix, attracting over 40,000 spectators and millions watching on TV. The Rolex Grand Prix is the highlight of nine days of intense competition across multiple disciplines in Aachen.
“Managing live feeds, inserting graphics, and dynamically altering the playlist based on how an event unfolds, is complex, especially when the playout is managed remotely. We are breaking a new ground with this innovation on the Cloudport platform. We are quite delighted with the flawless telecast of the live event on Horse & Country TV.” said Amagi Media Labs cofounder and CTO Srividhya Srinivasan.
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Tech Mahindra names Jeetu Anandani VP & country head – enterprise & strategic accounts
Veteran tech leader to drive enterprise growth across Australia and New Zealand
MELBOURNE: Jeetu Anandani has stepped into a larger leadership role at Tech Mahindra, taking charge as vice president and country head for enterprise and strategic growth across Australia and New Zealand.
Based in Melbourne, Anandani will steer the company’s enterprise portfolio in the ANZ region, focusing on expanding business across high-growth sectors such as retail, energy and utilities, health insurance and logistics. The move signals Tech Mahindra’s intent to deepen its presence in one of the world’s most competitive enterprise technology markets.
In his new role, Anandani will lead growth initiatives, build strategic partnerships and strengthen relationships with key stakeholders across industries. His mandate also includes accelerating business development efforts in sectors such as manufacturing, travel and logistics while helping clients navigate digital transformation and AI-led change.
The promotion caps a steady rise within Tech Mahindra. Anandani most recently served as communications, media and entertainment head for BPS across the Asia Pacific and Japan region, where he worked on expanding enterprise deals and strategic partnerships. Before that, he held the role of account director, managing key client relationships and delivery programmes.
Prior to joining Tech Mahindra in 2020, Anandani spent nearly eight years at Telstra as country manager in Mumbai, overseeing operational growth and partnerships. His earlier career includes leadership stints at Tata Consultancy Services, Vodafone and JPMorgan Chase.
With more than two decades of experience across telecom, banking and IT services, Anandani now takes the helm of Tech Mahindra’s enterprise push in ANZ, a region where demand for AI, digital transformation and large-scale technology partnerships continues to gather pace.
