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...
11:23 PM, May 14, 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
Beijing: Television viewers in China can expect a totally different viewing experience as the country's hopes to launch its first 3D television channel Jan 1, 2012, the government has announced. The TV channel will go into official operation during the Lunar New Year Festival in late January, Xinhua reported. "We have officially started preparations for the country's first experimental 3D TV channel and have issued two technical guidelines on the...
04:42 PM, Dec 01, 2011
New Delhi: Government has taken a serious note of the telecast of a CD purportedly showing nurse Bhanwari Devi and former Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna in a compromising position and issued show cause notices to two news channels why action should not be taken against them. Official sources said that the notices have been sent to news channels P7 and Sahara Samay who have also been directed not to repeat...
10:44 AM, Nov 12, 2011
Kochi: Apple a Day Properties directors KA Saju and Rajiv Kumar have been on the run for two weeks now. The duo is charged in the over Rs 130 crore real estate fraud in Kochi. But they seem to be elusive only to the Kerala police, and not to regional channels, who tracked them down for interviews. "If you have high-level political connections, and if you have the capacity to...
09:37 AM, Jun 10, 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...
10:51 PM, Mar 29, 2011
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