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  • Modi to address ‘Mann ki Baat’ on 28 June

    Modi to address ‘Mann ki Baat’ on 28 June

    NEW DELHI: The next installment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Mann ki Baat’ will be broadcast by All India Radio on 28 June.

     

    This is the ninth edition of the radio programme in which PM shares his thoughts with the citizens.

     

    The Prime Minister in a message also invited citizens to share their thoughts and ideas for the programme on the Open Forum of MyGov.in: https://mygov.in/group-issue/give-your-inputs-prime-ministers-mann-ki-baat. 

     

    Different stations of Doordarshan and some private channels are also expected relay the broadcast.

  • MIB warns MSOs, LCOs against removing mandatory channels

    MIB warns MSOs, LCOs against removing mandatory channels

    NEW DELHI: The Government today warned all multi-system operators (MSO) and local cable operators (LCO) of action if they failed to carry the mandatory channels of Doordarshan, Rajya Sabha TV and Lok Sabha TV.

     

    Noting that it had been found that many MSOs and LCOs were not carrying mandatory channels notified by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B) under different notifications, a note posted on the Ministry’s website said this was a violation of Section 8 of the Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Act 1995.

     

    Non-carriage of mandatory channels was liable to attract Section Il, Section 12 and Section 8 of the Cable Act.

     

    Any violation of Section 8 of the Cable Act shall invite such action as provided in the Cable TV Act and the Rules framed thereunder as well as the terms and conditions stipulated in the MSO permission, as the case may be.

     

    DD alleges DD Bharati taken off by Tata Sky

     

    Meanwhile in a separate note, Doordarshan said that its cultural channel DD Bharati had been taken off by DTH operator Tata Sky from 13 June till date without any official information. “This accounts to a serious violation from Tata Sky’s end,” the note said.

     

    Prasar Bharati had already moved the Ministry in this regard, and requested it to initiate action against the DTH operator.

     

    DD Bharati and some other Doordarshan channels including DD UP, DD MP, DD Bihar & DD Rajasthan are not being carried by Tata Sky on its network, which amounts to violation of the Government rules, DD said.

     

    Doordarshan reiterated that it is obligatory for every DTH operator to carry all Doordarshan channels, irrespective of any bouquet(s) or a-la-carte channel(s) being subscribed by subscribers. The DTH operators have to place the channels in the respective genre and display them in full television screen.

     

     

    The notification of 5 and 6 September, 2013 and 25 May, 2015 had specified a list of channels that are to be mandatorily carried by DTH operators, MSOs and cable operators on their cable TV networks.

     

    In areas where cable TV digitization has been completed, it is obligatory for the cable operators to carry 23 channels of Doordarshan including Kisan Channel, besides Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha channels. 

     

    In other areas, the cable operators are required to carry eight channels of Doordarshan, in addition to Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha channels.

  • DD to deploy 23 cameras, have LCD screens for live Yoga Day coverage

    DD to deploy 23 cameras, have LCD screens for live Yoga Day coverage

    NEW DELHI: With India aiming to get into the Guinness Book of World Records with the largest number of people performing Yoga at a single venue on the International Day of Yoga, Doordarshan will telecast the event live from Rajpath on the morning of 21 June.

     

    The Delhi Kendra of Doordarshan has deployed around 23 cameras by linking together three OB vans with microwave and OFC cables to cover this mega event.

     

    The live coverage of the event is touted to be totally different from that of the Republic Day Parade that Doordarshan brings annually to India and the world as this would encompass a panoramic view of the happenings at Rajpath.

     

    The logistics involved in the live telecast of upcoming International Day of Yoga are complex, as the area involved stretches for almost 1.5 kms from Rafi Marg to India Gate and will encompass the entire lawns to the north and south of Rajpath. 

     

    The 23 Doordarshan cameras being used for the coverage have been placed in strategic positions to cover all the 40,000 participants, and guests led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

     

    Doordarshan will use 13 raisers of five feet and ten feet height, which have been covered aesthetically with yoga motifs to place the cameras. Three Jimmy jip cameras, which can provide an aerial view from a height of 40 meters will also be used to add to the visual impact of the coverage. 

     

    One of the cameras has been additionally placed at the halfway point on a hydraulic lift, which can go up to about 50 feet high. This camera is at the junction between Rajpath and Janpath and can give the viewer an aerial perspective, covering participants at both ends of the venue. In addition, two cameras will be placed on top of India gate and will give panoramic shots of the central vista.  

     

    The coverage will also include the production of a small stage; instructional yoga by experts will be shown by using three cameras and by deploying a fourth OB Van. The output of this OB van will be provided by Doordarshan to the organisers for display on giant LCD screens, adding to the visual impact of the event.

     

    The event will start at 6.20 am with a nine-minute introductory film, welcoming all to the world of yoga and will go on up to 7.45 am or till the end.

     

    Producer Shanti Swaroop Bhakoo from Doordarshan Kendra Delhi, who is heading the team has extensive experience in live OBs like the Republic Day Parade and the Independence Day celebrations. 

     

    Over a hundred staff from the programme, engineering, scenic and administrative side are working round the clock to ensure a coverage befitting international standards. All technical operations are being supervised by S.N. Singh, DDG (Engineering). 

     

    Doordarshan additional director general Dr Mahesh Joshi will hold overall charge of this historic mega live coverage. 

  • Pubcaster breaks bureaucratic shackles; hires new recruits

    Pubcaster breaks bureaucratic shackles; hires new recruits

    NEW DELHI: After struggling for almost 25 years, the public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has finally broken the bureaucratic shackles and started the process of completing 2,367 fresh recruitments for different posts in All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan (DD).
     
    The Group of Ministers attached to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, which had gone into issues relating to the pubcaster had earlier recommended a total of 3,452 posts that needed to be filled on an immediate basis.
     
    Of the total recruits, 120 persons have been shortlisted for immediate training at the National Academy for Broadcast Media set up by Prasar Bharati in north Delhi.
     
    These new recruits were addressed by Prasar Bharati chairman Surya Prakash, eminent communicator Kiran Karnik, Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar, and senior advisor VAM Hussain to generally acquaint them with the kind of challenges ahead of them.
     
    Speaking of the role of the public broadcaster, Sircar said that both AIR and DD had helped in knitting the people of the country.
     
    Pubcaster sources told Indiantelevision.com that the new recruits were being given induction training in batches of 55 at a time.
     
    Sources also said that the induction training for each group would last around nine weeks.

  • DD to live telecast and webcast Yoga Day celebrations

    DD to live telecast and webcast Yoga Day celebrations

    NEW DELHI: The largest single Yoga demonstration at a single venue – the Rajpath in Delhi – will be telecast on Doordarshan channels as well as webcast live on the International Day of Yoga on 21 June.

     

    Given the expected large participation at one place of a minimum 35,000, the AYUSH Ministry has applied to the Guinness World Records for “Largest Yoga Demonstration/ Class at single venue.”

     

    A 20-second video animation spot on the logo has been prepared, which is being telecast over Doordarshan and other private cable and satellite channels across the country.

     

    A booklet on Yoga Protocol and a 33 minute DVD of Aasanas, which will be performed at the Rajpath has also been prepared by the Ministry of AYUSH.

     

    In addition, Prime Minister Narendra Modi posts a daily tweet on his Twitter account with young persons demonstrating different Yoga postures.

     

    An hour-long programme will be held at Rajpath starting at 6.40 am and will be attended by Modi along with Cabinet Ministers, Minister of States, MPs as well as diplomats and foreign nationals. In all, over 35000 people are expected to take part including students, National Cadet Corps Cadets, Central Reserve Police Force and Yoga Institutions.

     

    Respective Ministries are also issuing a postal stamp and special coins. The coins will be of the denomination of Rs 10 and Rs 100.

     

    External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj announced that out of the total of 177 countries, which have given co-sponsorship, 47 countries are from the Organisation of Islamic Countries. They have co-sponsored the event and expressed their desire to participate in the yoga sessions being organised in the Indian Missions.  

  • Canada’s ATN bags telecast rights for India – Bangladesh cricket series

    Canada’s ATN bags telecast rights for India – Bangladesh cricket series

    MUMBAI: Canada’s South Asian broadcaster Asian Television Network International Limited (ATN) has acquired the exclusive broadcast rights for India vs Bangladesh Bilateral Cricket series, which is being held in Bangladesh.

     

    India’s tour of Bangladesh, which starts today (10 June, 2015) features one Test match and three One Day Internationals (ODI). The last Test between both countries was played in 2010.

     

    The series will air live on CBN & ATN Cricket Plus.

     

    ATN serves Canada’s diverse cultural communities with 54 specialty television channels. ATN has programming alliances with broadcasters like Doordarshan, Star Network, Sony Entertainment Television, Viacom, Times Television Network, B4U Network, NDTV and Disney amongst others.

  • DD Bharati brings back ‘Byomkesh Bakshi’ after 22 years

    DD Bharati brings back ‘Byomkesh Bakshi’ after 22 years

    NEW DELHI: At a time when a feature film has just been made on the subject, Doordarshan is re-telecasting the popular series Byomkesh Bakshi, which was made more than twenty years earlier in 1993.

     

    The series is being telecast on DD’s cultural channel DD Bharati.

     

    It was the first Hindi series based on the Byomkesh Bakshi character created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. The series was made over two seasons, a 14-episode series in 1993 and a twenty-part series in 1997.  The series achieved cult status and was even repeated several times on DD National.

     

    The series stars Rajit Kapur and K K Raina as Byomkesh Bakshi and Ajit Bandyopadhyay respectively. Both actors known for their stage experience also went on to act in many films later.

     

    The series was directed by one of the masters of art cinema in the seventies and eighties, Basu Chatterjee.

     

    Byomkesh Bakshi, a Bengali detective takes on spine-chilling cases with his sidekick Ajit Bandyopadhyay. 

     

    The series will be aired every Friday at 10 pm on DD Bharati.

  • MIB amends order; DD News DG to report to Prasar Bharati

    MIB amends order; DD News DG to report to Prasar Bharati

    NEW DELHI: In partial modification of its earlier order, the Government said today that Veena Jain, who has been asked to take over as director general (News) in Doordarshan, will report to Prasar Bharati “for all operational purposes.”

     

    As was reported earlier by Indiantelevision.com, the order issued on 29 May had said that the 1984 Indian Information Service officer who will also hold charge as Officer on Special Duty for New Media Wing and Social Media Cell “will report to the Ministry for all purposes.”

     

    A modification posted on the website of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) now says that she will report to the Ministry only in her capacity as OSD. Jain was until now posted as additional director general in the News Services Division of All India Radio.

     

    The announcement had led to a furore in the pubcaster and the media, which alleged that the Government was taking over DD News.

     

    A Ministry official told Indiantelevision.com that it was merely a typographical error and there should be no attempt to read meanings into this.

     

    However, a Prasar Bharati source had told this correspondent last week that DD News had always been under the control of the Ministry as all its officials were appointed by the Ministry without consulting the pubcaster Board or CEO.

     

    In fact, the order of the Ministry was not even marked as a copy to PrasarBharati CEO Jawhar Sircar.

     

    All India Radio has 45 news units while DD has 30 news units around the country, and all are headed by Indian Information Service officers posted by the Ministry.

     

    While pointing out that Prasar Bharati had never been consulted on these postings, Senior Prasar Bharati Advisor Brig. V A M Hussain told this website that Section 11(A)(2) of the Prasar Bharati Act 1990 was clear that the Ministry was to prescribe the terms and conditions of service in the pubcaster of officers and employees of the Indian Information Service, the Central Secretariat Service or any other service borne on any cadre outside Akashvani or Doordarshan. However, he said this had never been done.

     

    Under the Act, Prasar Bharati was made into an autonomous organization.

     

    Answering a question, he said DD has 24 channels and DD News is the only one where the Indian Information Service officers who are directly answerable to the Ministry is posted without any consultation with the pubcaster.

  • Tedial provides Doordarshan with integrated MAM and archive solution

    Tedial provides Doordarshan with integrated MAM and archive solution

    MUMBAI: Independent MAM technology solutions specialist Tedial has provided its Tarsys enterprise MAM system to Indian pubcaster Doordarshan.

     

    The Tedial system, installed at Doordarshan’s Kolkata facility provides its operators with core and browser-based desktop media tools as well as a fully integrated archive system, able to scale in volume and throughput. The Tedial archive will connect to Doordarshan’s sites in other regions as well as its central archive in Delhi. Tedial’s Indian partner MediaGuru carried out the installation.

     

    Doordarshan provides television, radio, online and mobile services throughout India and overseas through the Indian Network and also Radio India. Apart from delivering a fully equipped archive, Tedial’s Tarsys MAM will also enable Doordarshan to ingest its existing U-matic, Betacam SP, DVCPR050 and XDCAM HD422 programme content stored on tapes and optical disc media, into the system in both high and low resolution formats.

     

    Tarsys is fully integrated with 30TB of HP Online Storage and a 48-slot HP LTO6 tape library as well as Tektronix Cerify QC for automated quality control of file-based content. It enables operators at the facility to browse, catalogue, search and store content via the Tedial web-client.

     

    Doordarshan director of engineering Ashish De said, “The Tedial MAM system provides us with an integrated archive that is fully scalable enabling us to expand the system, as and when the time comes. Tarsys was recommended to us by MediaGuru following a rigorous tender process and we are very happy with the system.”

     

    Tedial chief sales and marketing officer Esther Mesas added, “We’re delighted to announce this sale to Doordarshan in conjunction with MediaGuru. Our unique media IT architecture, core software modules and API can be configured to create the most efficient and flexible media processing and archive systems available in the industry.”

  • Pubcaster not consulted on new DD News appointment: Prasar Bharati officials

    Pubcaster not consulted on new DD News appointment: Prasar Bharati officials

    NEW DELHI: The order posting Veena Jain to head the news channel of Doordarshan as director general and noting that the officer ‘will report to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry for all purposes’ has come as a surprise to many as it implies that DD News is to be directly controlled by the Ministry.

     

    However, Prasar Bharati officials told Indiantelevision.com that this has been the case since the inception of DD News.

     

    All India Radio has 45 news units while DD has 30 news units around the country, and all are headed by Indian Information Service (IIS) officers posted by the Ministry.

     

    Senior Prasar Bharati Advisor Brig. V A M Hussain told the website that Section 11(B)(2) of the Prasar Bharati Act 1990 clearly states that the Ministry must consult or seek advice of the pubcaster before making such appointments. Under the same Act, Prasar Bharati was made into an autonomous organisation.

     

    However, in this case, a copy of the Ministry’s order was not even marked to Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar.

     

    Reacting to a news report about this, Hussain tweeted, ‘Never consulted Prasar Bharati in past/Fact is Never handed over News.’

     

    Answering a question, he said that DD had 24 channels and DD News is the only one where the IIS officers are directly answerable to the Ministry and are posted without consultation with the pubcaster.

     

    In fact, Sircar has written to the Ministry several times in the past in this connection but has not received a reply.   

     

    The pubcaster had also reacted strongly when S M Khan had been removed unceremoniously last year and placed on compulsory wait.

     

    During the run-up to the elections, Khan was reported to have delayed the transmission of Narendra Modi’s interview to Doordarshan. Answering a query about editing out certain portions, he had sad this was done only because of references made about persons who had not been given an opportunity to have their say.