New Delhi: An association of leading news channels has stoutly opposed the telecom regulator's decision to allow Multi System Operators (MSOs) to collect carriage fees from broadcasters and has asked the Government to review it. Reacting to the new regulations set by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) said that it is "shocked and dismayed at TRAI's new Notification dated 30.4.12 on digitising cable...
07:44 PM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Chairman of the Press Council of India Justice Markandey Katju has strongly criticised the way Television news channels function. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, he said that a proposal to bring the electronic media under the Press Council's ambit is pending before the Prime Minister. Karan Thapar: What steps do you propose to take to bring news television or electronic media as a whole under...
08:06 AM, Oct 30, 2011
The cabinet has approved an Information and Broadcasting proposal which fixes the criteria for granting licences to TV channels. According to the new guidelines approved by the Cabinet on Friday, a channel can renew its broadcast licence only if it has less than five violations of the programming and advertisements code to its name. The minimum net worth for TV news channels has increased from Rs 3 crore to Rs...
06:01 PM, Oct 12, 2011
The cabinet has approved an Information and Broadcasting proposal which fixes the criteria for granting licences to TV channels. According to the new guidelines approved by the Cabinet on Friday, a channel can renew its broadcast licence only if it has less than five violations of the programming and advertisements code to its name. The minimum net worth for TV news channels has increased from Rs 3 crore to Rs...
06:01 PM, Oct 12, 2011
New Delhi: Under attack over scams and corruption issues and also the Anna wave, the UPA has decided to go in for image correction by issuing new guidelines for issuing licence to TV channels. But one of its proposals has angered the Broadcast Editors' Association. The UPA watched the spreading Anna wave with horror and there was a strong feeling at a Cabinet meet last month that it would have...
11:27 AM, Oct 09, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to speak on major issues when he meets a group of senior editors on Wednesday. "I am hoping that it will become the preferred format for regular interactions between the groups of editors and the Prime Minister," Media Advisor to the Prime Minister Harish Khare told PTI on Tuesday. Singh's interaction on Wednesday morning will be the second with the senior Editors....
07:12 PM, Jun 28, 2011
New Delhi: The deadlock between electronic media and ICC over coverage of Wednesday's Indo-Pak World Cup cricket semifinal got resolved on Tuesday, following a request from the Indian Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Ambika Soni. Ambika Soni proposed a 24-hour 'truce' in a dispute created by Indian non-rights holders (NRH) breaching the terms and conditions they had agreed to follow when they were awarded accreditation for the ICC Cricket World...
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