TRAI concedes to broadcasters' demand, bars 'placement fee' New Delhi: Conceding to a major demand of broadcasters, telecom regulator TRAI on Monday barred Multi-System Operators (MSOs) from demanding 'placement fee' from channels in lieu of placing them in select slots.

In a statement issued on Monday, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said it had issued amendments to the Interconnection Regulations which were earlier issued on April 30, and applicable to Digital Addressable Cable TV Systems.

"Multi-system operator (are) not to demand any placement fee from the broadcaster," the TRAI statement said.

"Every multi-system operator (has) to display, in his Electronic Programme Guide, all the channels offered by him, in the same genre in which a particular channel has been indicated by the broadcaster and one channel shall appear in only one genre," the TRAI statement added....more    
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