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NDTV visible in Canada via Rogers Digital Cable
MUMBAI: Canada based Rogers Cable Communications Inc has announced it will be adding New Delhi Television (NDTV) to its list of multicultural programming starting 21 December.
“As our communities continue to grow and diversify, Rogers strives to provide the most multicultural programming to its customers with programs like NDTV,” said Rogers Cable television division VP and GM David Purdy. “With more choice, our customers have the freedom to watch what they want when they want with personal TV.”
Rogers Digital Cable customers can order NDTV for $14.95 per month or $10.00 per month when ordered with ATN and Zee TV, informs an official release.
With the addition of New Delhi Television, Rogers now offers multicultural programming in 20 different languages on 41 multicultural channels.
Recently, NDTV 24×7 launched on the UK’s digital television service provider Sky TV and also tied up with the direct-to-home (DTH) DirecTV in US to cater to a large section of south Asian community.
Rogers Cable passes 3.4 million homes in Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland, with 67 per cent basic penetration of its homes passed. The cable company provides high-speed Internet access with the commercial launch in North America in 1995 and now approximately 32 per cent of homes passed are Internet customers.
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Senior media executive Madhu Soman exits Zee Media
Former Reuters and Bloomberg leader says he leaves with “no regrets” after brief stint at WION and Zee Business
NOIDA: Madhu Soman, a veteran of global newsrooms and media sales floors, has stepped away from Zee Media Corporation after a short stint steering business strategy for WION and Zee Business.
In a reflective LinkedIn note marking his departure, Soman said his time within the network’s corridors was always likely to be brief. “Some chapters close faster than expected,” he wrote, signalling the end of a nearly two-year spell in which he oversaw both editorial partnerships and commercial strategy.
Soman joined Zee Media in 2022 after more than a decade abroad with Reuters and Bloomberg, returning to India to take on the role of chief business officer for WION and Zee Business. His mandate was ambitious: bridge the newsroom and the revenue desk while expanding digital and broadcast reach.
During the stint, Zee Business reached break-even for the first time since its launch in 2005, while WION refreshed programming and strengthened its digital footprint across platforms such as YouTube and Facebook.
But Soman suggested the cultural fit proved uneasy. Describing himself as a “cultural misfit”, he hinted at deeper tensions between editorial instincts shaped in global newsrooms and the realities of India’s television news ecosystem.
Before joining Zee, Soman spent more than seven years at Bloomberg in Hong Kong as head of broadcast sales for Asia-Pacific, expanding the company’s news syndication business across several markets. Earlier, he held senior editorial roles at Reuters, overseeing online strategy in India and managing Reuters Video Services from London.
His career began in television and wire reporting, including a stint with ANI during the 1999 Kargil conflict, before moving into digital publishing as India’s internet media landscape took shape.
Now, after nearly three decades in broadcast and digital media, Soman is leaving Delhi NCR and returning to his hometown, Trivandrum.
Exhausted, he admits. But unbowed. And with one quiet line that sums up the journey: he didn’t sell his soul — because some things, after all, are not for sale.
