New Delhi: Newspaper advertisements of the film 'Jannat 2' showing actor Emraan Hashmi smoking a cigarette violated anti-tobacco laws, an NGO said Thursday pointing to the violation. In a letter to the health ministry and the information and broadcasting ministry, HRIDAY (Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth) pointed to 'blatant violations of the rules' in the print advertisements. "These ads, showing Hashmi smoking, have been published in supplements of leading...
04:17 PM, May 04, 2012
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: In trouble for the television broadcast of Vidya Balan-starrer 'The Dirty Picture', the Information and Broadcast Ministry has told Sony TV that it can air the film only after prime time, that's post 11 pm. Sony was scheduled to telecast the film at noon and 8 pm on Sunday. This after the High Court had cleared the film after 58 cuts and issued it a U/A certificate. The...
02:10 PM, Apr 22, 2012
Mumbai: US-based Turner Broadcasting System Inc, a Time Warner company, has decided to shut its Hindi general entertainment channel 'Imagine TV' in India as poor ratings hampered any further investment in it, a senior company official said. Turner had bought a majority stake in the channel from Indian broadcaster NDTV in 2009 for $117 million. The channel's India and international feed 'Imagine Dil Se', which will be shut with effect...
04:07 PM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: Upset over the coverage of the attack on an Israeli diplomat's car, Delhi Police have complained to News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA) asking it to restrain TV channels from telecasting "unverified and unconfirmed" information. Though no specific news item was mentioned, police claimed that time and again reporters of electronic media have been requested not to broadcast any unverified or unconfirmed report in cases related to terror-related incidents....
10:48 AM, Feb 26, 2012
New Delhi: Taking to social media like Twitter and Facebook in a big way, the Information and Broadcasting ministry posted minute-by-minute accounts of a seminar on Community Radio on five websites simultaneously. As the Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni spoke to the gathering, a tweet flashed on microblogging site Twitter - "Radio is MoIB's flagship programme says Ambika Soni, Union Minster, Minister of Information and Broadcasting." "Lack of financial...
10:49 AM, Feb 19, 2012
New Delhi: In the wake of complaints over appearance of porn star Sunny Leone in TV reality show 'Big Boss', the Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC) has asked TV channel Colors to ensure that she does not use the programme to promote her 'pornography business'. Sources said that the issue was discussed at a meeting of the BCCC on Friday where several complaints regarding Leone's appearance on the TV show...
02:39 PM, Dec 27, 2011
New Delhi: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday terminated a deal with its broadcast partners Nimbus, sources told CNN-IBN. The BCCI will encash the bank guarantee of Rs 2,000 crore, sources confirmed. After Monday's decision, Nimbus, which has been broadcasting India's home series as well as domestic tournaments, is expected to approach the court. Earlier on Monday, the World Series Hockey, a city-based premier hockey...
05:42 PM, Dec 12, 2011
New Delhi: The new regulations on onscreen smoking that were handed out ambitiously by the the Health Ministry have been stalled as the Information and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B) has given in to the plea of the film makers, asking for their creative rights. The I&B Ministry has stayed the no smoking regulations by the Health Ministry. In a letter from the I&B ministry to the Health Ministry, it is clear...
09:49 AM, Dec 08, 2011
Panaji: The entertainment tax structure in the country will be much relaxed after it is brought under common head in central taxes, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said today. Talking to reporters after inaugurating Film Bazaar at International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa, Soni said that there has been a demand by filmmakers to lower the entertainment tax structure in the country. "Indian filmmakers are complaining of...
06:02 PM, Nov 24, 2011
New Delhi: Dismissive about the self-regulatory mechanism of the News Broadcast industry, the Press Council of India chairman, Justice Markandey Katju, on Monday said if TV channels did not want to come under the Press Council they should choose another body like Lokpal. "Self-regulation is no regulation" and news organisations are "private bodies whose activities have a large influence on the public and they also must be answerable to the...
07:19 PM, Nov 07, 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: In order to deter non-serious applicants from "crowding the electronic media landscape", the government today decided to increase the net worth criteria for those seeking permission to run TV channels in the country. The union cabinet cleared an I & B Ministry proposal as per which the net worth criteria for uplinking of 'Non-News and current affairs' channels and downlinking of foreign channels has been revised from Rs...
10:00 AM, Oct 08, 2011
New York: The number of gay and bisexual characters on scripted broadcast network TV has dipped slightly this season to 19 out of nearly 650 roles, according to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. The 16th annual 'Where We Are on TV' report released Wednesday by GLAAD found that 2.9 percent of actors appearing regularly on prime-time network drama and comedy series in the 2011-12 season will portray gay,...
12:36 PM, Sep 29, 2011
New Delhi: News Broadcasters Association (NBA), an umbrella body of TV news channels, has decided to move from existing weekly ratings to monthly ratings for all national news and business channels in Hindi and English. The NBA board has taken the decision with an aim to improve news broadcasting standards as coverage and reportage of news and programmes cannot always be linked to popularity or audience measurement, a statement issued...
07:16 PM, Sep 08, 2011
London: Rupert Murdoch's dream of controlling a British broadcasting behemoth has evaporated with the withdrawal of his bid for British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) - the latest, biggest casualty of what Prime Minister David Cameron called the hacking 'firestorm' sweeping through British politics, media and police. Cameron appointed a senior judge to lead an inquiry into the phone hacking and police bribery scandal engulfing Murdoch's British newspapers, and promised it would...
10:10 AM, Jul 14, 2011
The British Parliament will back a motion to urge News Of the World owner Rupert Murdoch to drop plans to buy out British Sky Broadcasting. ...
10:20 AM, Jul 13, 2011
New Delhi: Condemning the killing of a senior journalist of English tabloid 'Mid-Day' in Mumbai on Sunday, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said no civilised society can tolerate this kind of attack on the freedom of the press. "This act has challenged the freedom of press and the perusal of objective reporting. This incident is a sign of insanity perpetuated by mindless individuals in which innocent citizens are killed....
07:48 PM, Jun 11, 2011
