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MUMBAI: Conditional access system (Cas) will be rolled out in the notified areas of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata from 31 December and no time extension is...
MUMBAI: There’s just a day left for the official launch of Al Jazeera International, the English language sibling of the sometimes controversial Arabic language channel Al...
NEW DELHI: For the investors in radio projects, there is some good news. Stating that the government is trying to look into the investments made by...
MUMBAI: Three senior officers of the Indian Information Service have been promoted to the rank of additional secretary. They are Shipra Biswas, PK Bandopadhyay and Amitabha...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi today assured fellow parliamentarians that the roadmap for CAS has been smoothened. Apprising members of the Consultative...
MUMBAI: Three senior officers of the Indian Information Service have been promoted to the rank of additional secretary. They are Shipra Biswas, PK Bandopadhyay and Amitabha...
MUMBAI: Doordarshan’s Urdu channel — DD Urdu — was officially launched on 15 August to coincide with India’s 60th Independence Day. With its launch, DD Urdu...
NEW DELHI: Determined to clean up the Indian cable TV of what it feels is indecent content, the government brought in other regulation relating to airing...
MUMBAI: As part of the tenth five year plan outlay, the Information & Broadcasting ministry has approved Rs 25.63 billion towards Doordarshan’s development.Additionally, Rs 4.11 billion...
MUMBAI: As part of the tenth five year plan outlay, the Information & Broadcasting ministry has approved Rs 25.63 billion towards Doordarshan’s development.Additionally, Rs 4.11 billion...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government today clarified that it was not working towards a mechanism to give pubcaster Doordarshan the sole rights to sporting events in...
NEW DELHI: Indian policy-makers seem to be having second thoughts on a draft broadcasting legislation that was proposed to be introduced in Parliament session, which started...
NEW DELHI: With the government yet to decide on a chief executive for pubcaster Prasar Bharati, an information and broadcasting ministry official is slated to take...
NEW DELHI: The broadcast regulator is at it again — issuing another set of consultation paper on cable TV prices for CAS areas. The Telecom Regulatory...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is close to taking a final decision on the financial restructuring of pubcaster Prasar Bharati, which manages Doordarshan and All India...
NEW DELHI: The government has literally washed its hands off radio FM players’ plea on high music royalty fee. In the absence of a single collection...
NEW DELHI: The government today said that copyright enforcement cells have been set up in most of the States and Union Territory administrations to check violation...
NEW DELHI: The MSO Alliance, an apex body of multi-system operators, has hit back with a point-by-point rebuttal of issues raised by Indian Broadcasting Foundation on...
MUMBAI: With election fever gripping Tamil Nadu media, the Chennai-headquartered Raj Television Network (RTN) has started telecasting news bulletins on its flagship channel Raj TV as...
NEW DELHI: Madrid-based Association International De RadioDifusion (AIR) and International Association of Broadcasting (IAB) have written to the Indian government exhorting green signal to news on...
NEW DELHI: The government is proposing to set up a separate disputes tribunal for broadcast content on the lines of Telecom Disputes Settlement And Appellate Tribunal...
MUMBAI: The terms of reference of a law that will bring about a separate broadcast regulator are almost ready. This was revealed to Indiantelevision.com by Information...
The Indian government (read the information and broadcasting ministry) is suddenly finding itself caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, which more often than...
When in late 2003, a few months ahead of the general elections (in early 2004), the then Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition government in Delhi issued a...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is exploring some dilution in the downlink and uplink norms that makes it mandatory for private broadcasters to share sports content...
MUMBAI: Moving Picture Company India Ltd has has signed an agreement with NL Films, Netherlands for producing a Dutch feature film titled Zoop in India. The...
MUMBAI: Information & Broadcasting minister P.R. Dasmunsi has informed the Rajya Sabha that the government has received a proposal to enact an Optical Disc Law to...
MUMBAI: Ten Sports has done it again by going to court against the government / pubcaster Prasar Bharati over telecast rights issue. Dubai-based Taj TV Limited,...
MUMBAI: Following the notification of downlinking guidelines last month, the information and broadcasting ministry has issued new uplinking norms for television channels from India, effective 2...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The long awaited cabinet reshuffle has thrown up a surprise as far as the information and broadcasting portfolio is concerned. The man...
NEW DELHI: The government today showed that it was serious about content regulation when it discussed norms framed by the UK regulator with representatives from the...
NEW DELHI: The Ahmedabad-based Consumer Education and Research Centre (CERC) has expressed “serious concerns” about the inadequacies in the draft Code and Guidelines for television advertising,...
NEW DELHI: It’s not just terrestrial feed of sporting events that pubcaster Doordarshan is angling for. It wants rights for its DTH service too. And, a...
NEW DELHI: After uplink, it’s now time for downlinking a policy for a group of ministers (GoM) that would be headed by defence minister Pranab Mukherjee....
MUMBAI: The information and broadcasting ministry will be organising a workshop to discuss issues related to certification. The one-day workshop will be inaugurated tomorrow (5 July)...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting ministry today indicated further dilution in the ban on smoking scenes in films and TV serials by stating that “aesthetics” cannot...
MUMBAI: UTV’s sister concern United Home Entertainment has filed an application with information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry for uplinking of two kids channels. The company floated...
MUMBAI: Meanwhile, the FIPB has cleared a proposal of Hay House Publications (India) Pvt. Ltd for setting up a joint venture company with a foreign equity...
MUMBAI: The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has put on hold New Delhi Television Ltd’s proposal to transfer part of the promoters’ (Dr Prannoy Roy and...
MUMBAI: Broadcast News, Rajdeep Sardesai’s new venture in collaboration with Television Eighteen Group, has sought permission to uplink a news channel. A government source confirmed the...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting ministry proposes; the home ministry disposes. This could well be the case relating to news and current affairs programming on private...
NEW DELHI: After having proposed that all TV channels beaming from outside India, should register themselves in India, the government is now toying with cross-media restrictions....
NEW DELHI: Formula One races with participants sporting logos of sponsors like Marlboro company may just sneak through on Indian television during a live telecast. Any...
Circa: 2004. Characteristic of his verbosity, information and broadcasting minister Jaipal Reddy had mentioned in Parliament that he’s “dusting” the Broadcast Bill that he had tabled...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: It’s summer time. It’s Cas (conditional access system) time. Once again. This time, though, the role of skeptics has changed. The cable operators, and...
NEW DELHI: Aimed at liberalising the regime, information and broadcasting ministry has cleared 20 per cent FDI for the private FM radio sector, but stuck to...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Government today gave another extension of six months to news and current affairs channels to reduce foreign holding to 26 per cent as required...
NEW DELHI: The Department of Company Affairs (DCA) willing, Space TV may finally see some light at the end of the long bureaucratic tunnel. The information...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has brought about a ban on promotional activities of tobacco and tobacco-related products like chewing tobacco, but it has no mechanism...
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry is now firmly of the view that regulation of content should be separate from carriage and is working on...
