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  • Over 180 TV channels asked to provide information to EMMC

    Over 180 TV channels asked to provide information to EMMC

    NEW DELHI: A total of 182 television channels have been asked by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry to provide by 8 June certain details required for monitoring purposes by the Electronic Media Monitoring Centre (EMMC).

    The pay channels have to provide one set of Professionat TRO for each TV channel permitted to them which can give SD-SDI output (in case of HD channels, HD-SDI output) alongwith one spare IRD per bouquet to EMMC.

    Alternately, the pay TV broadcaster/ service irovider should provide Viewing Card (VC) with matching CAlvl module for interfacing with demodulators to decrypt and demodulate the channels over IP. TV Channels are also required to provide the technical details as frequency, satellite, location of teleport, etc.

    The Free-to-Air (FTA) TV channels whose signals are not encrypted need not provide such equipment. However, they may immediately inform of the frequency being used

    The Information and Broadcasting Ministry said that under Clause 5.14 of Downlinking Guidelines, ‘the applicant company shall provide the necessary monitoring facility at its own cost for monitoring of programmes or content by the representative of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting or any other Government agency as and when required’.

    A list attached along with the notice published on the site of the Ministry mib.nic.in also gives a list of the 182 channels as well as the officers to whom the information has to be sent.

    The list contains all genres of channels – news, general entertainment, business news, and music.

  • DD, AIR News bulletins preserved as archives, PIB releases since independence available for public scrutiny

    DD, AIR News bulletins preserved as archives, PIB releases since independence available for public scrutiny

    NEW DELHI: Doordarshan News bulletins are being preserved as archives in print format since 2010, Parliament was told this week.

    DD News maintains the archives in print/video format, according to Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley.

    All daily News Bulletins are preserved in visual format for six months and stored in local server of DD News.

    Coverage of VVIPs such as the President, Vice President and Prime Minister, including their major domestic and foreign tours, are archived and preserved.

    Recordings of news coverage, which have longer implications and recall value, are also archived and preserved in DD News Tape library.

    The Electronic Media Monitoring Centre (EMMC) keeps the record of the channels monitored for a period of 90 days.

    As far as audio archives of news items, bulletins of All India Radio broadcast from Delhi and different Regional News Units located in various States are preserved in text as well as electronic formats.

    At the headquarters of AIR in Delhi, text copies of major news bulletins of All India Radio broadcast from Delhi are preserved for a period of five years.

    The text and audio format of these bulletins are also available on News Service Division (NSD): AIR website www.newsonair.com for a period of three months.

    Major Hindi and English news bulletins broadcast from Delhi have also been preserved in electronic form on CDs (audio format) from June 2006 to October 2015.

    Regional News Units (RNUs) of All India Radio preserve the text copies of news bulletins as well as audio recordings for one year. RNUs now also upload their bulletins on NSD website.

    As far as print matter is concerned, the Minister said in reply to a question that Information Centre located at Connaught Place, New Delhi, of the Press Information Bureau has preserved hard copies of press releases issued by PIB since independence to 1997 and these are now being digitised.

    The Information Centre houses print records of historical value. Press releases are being issued by PIB in digital form since January 1998.

    In addition, 22 leading newspapers are being kept at the Information Centre, in bound form. The Information Centre is open to the general public.

  • DD, AIR News bulletins preserved as archives, PIB releases since independence available for public scrutiny

    DD, AIR News bulletins preserved as archives, PIB releases since independence available for public scrutiny

    NEW DELHI: Doordarshan News bulletins are being preserved as archives in print format since 2010, Parliament was told this week.

    DD News maintains the archives in print/video format, according to Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley.

    All daily News Bulletins are preserved in visual format for six months and stored in local server of DD News.

    Coverage of VVIPs such as the President, Vice President and Prime Minister, including their major domestic and foreign tours, are archived and preserved.

    Recordings of news coverage, which have longer implications and recall value, are also archived and preserved in DD News Tape library.

    The Electronic Media Monitoring Centre (EMMC) keeps the record of the channels monitored for a period of 90 days.

    As far as audio archives of news items, bulletins of All India Radio broadcast from Delhi and different Regional News Units located in various States are preserved in text as well as electronic formats.

    At the headquarters of AIR in Delhi, text copies of major news bulletins of All India Radio broadcast from Delhi are preserved for a period of five years.

    The text and audio format of these bulletins are also available on News Service Division (NSD): AIR website www.newsonair.com for a period of three months.

    Major Hindi and English news bulletins broadcast from Delhi have also been preserved in electronic form on CDs (audio format) from June 2006 to October 2015.

    Regional News Units (RNUs) of All India Radio preserve the text copies of news bulletins as well as audio recordings for one year. RNUs now also upload their bulletins on NSD website.

    As far as print matter is concerned, the Minister said in reply to a question that Information Centre located at Connaught Place, New Delhi, of the Press Information Bureau has preserved hard copies of press releases issued by PIB since independence to 1997 and these are now being digitised.

    The Information Centre houses print records of historical value. Press releases are being issued by PIB in digital form since January 1998.

    In addition, 22 leading newspapers are being kept at the Information Centre, in bound form. The Information Centre is open to the general public.

  • Only pay TV channels to facilitate feed to EMMC by 25 August

    Only pay TV channels to facilitate feed to EMMC by 25 August

    NEW DELHI: The Government has clarified that free to air television channels are not required to provide one set of professional IRD for each TV channel which can give SD-SDI output (in case the channels are HD then HD-SDI output) along with one spare IRD per bouquet to the electronic media monitoring cell (EMMC) by 25 August.

     

    Issuing a second reminder to the broadcasters, the Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry said that pay TV broadcaster / service provider should provide viewing card (VC) with matching CAM module for interface with demodulators to decrypt and demodulate the channels over lP.

     

    This reminder by the I&B Ministry is in furtherance of the earlier letter of 22 July and letter of 14 August.

     

    The Ministry informed all TV channels that any failure to provide the module to EMMC within the time schedule will be viewed seriously.