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  • Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar officially seeks early retirement

    Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar officially seeks early retirement

    MUMBAI: Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar has been known to not pull any punches. Last month, he had expressed his desire to resign from his post to the media as he was not getting anywhere with the organisaton and neither was Prasar Bharati. Now, he has written to the ministry of information & broadcasting secretary (MIB) Ajay Mittal stating that he would like to resign prematurely from 4 November, says a PTI report.

    He has also written to I&B minister Venkaiah Naidu, expressing his desire to resign from his position post-Diwali – that is after 30 October. The report goes on to state that he would like to relocate to Kolkata.

    Sircar was yanked out of his position as secretary, culture, and installed as the Prasar Bharati CEO by an eminent panel led by the then Indian vice-president and a Supreme Court judge during the UPA government’s tenure in 2012. He serves as the vice-president of the Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union, which is a club of broadcasters from 67 countries. He has also had two short stints MIB secretary during his career.

  • Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar officially seeks early retirement

    Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar officially seeks early retirement

    MUMBAI: Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar has been known to not pull any punches. Last month, he had expressed his desire to resign from his post to the media as he was not getting anywhere with the organisaton and neither was Prasar Bharati. Now, he has written to the ministry of information & broadcasting secretary (MIB) Ajay Mittal stating that he would like to resign prematurely from 4 November, says a PTI report.

    He has also written to I&B minister Venkaiah Naidu, expressing his desire to resign from his position post-Diwali – that is after 30 October. The report goes on to state that he would like to relocate to Kolkata.

    Sircar was yanked out of his position as secretary, culture, and installed as the Prasar Bharati CEO by an eminent panel led by the then Indian vice-president and a Supreme Court judge during the UPA government’s tenure in 2012. He serves as the vice-president of the Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union, which is a club of broadcasters from 67 countries. He has also had two short stints MIB secretary during his career.

  • DD Bharati telecasts mutual interest programs coinciding with Prez’s visit to China

    DD Bharati telecasts mutual interest programs coinciding with Prez’s visit to China

    NEW DELHI: Doordarshan and China’s pubcaster CCTV (China Central Television) are telecasting series of programmes aimed at fostering better people to people understanding between the two countries to coincide with the visit of president Pranab Mukherjee to China.

    The president is in China from today to 27 May and this has led to an interesting exchange of programmes between the public broadcasters of two countries..

    This exchange of programmes comes under the ambit of an MOU signed in May 2015, when prime minister Narendra Modi and Chinese premier Li Keqiang expanded the cooperation between the two countries from films to television co-productions. 

    Prasar Bharati CEO Jawahar Sircar had played an instrumental role in the signing of this agreement with CCTV President Nie Chen Xi.

    The telecast of the selected programmes on the two platforms is on gratis basis. The genre of the programmes range from art, culture, education, science, wildlife, entertainment, tourism, adventure sports, news and current affairs along with human interest, development and success stories.

    DD Bharati scheduled four documentaries of which the first telecast last night was titled‘Laughing Meat Balls’. This documentary gave viewers a valuable peep into the biopic of the founder of the Laughing Meat Balls club. Narrating the overall achievements and qualities of this theatre group, the documentary clearly highlights the essence of traditional Chinese opera.

    A documentary titled ‘A Family of Bowyers’ will be telecast on today at 7:30 pm. The repeat telecast will air on 25 May at 3:30 am and at 11:30 am. This documentary outlines the traditional family trade of quality bow making.

    A third documentary titled ‘My Solo Tour to France’ will be telecast on 25 May at 7:30 pm. The repeat telecast will air on 26 May at 3:30 am and at 11:30 am. It is a story about a person who takes his bicycle to tour the extensive journey of France. The cyclist narrates his experiences and happening during his tour in France.

    The fourth documentary titled ‘Wildlife Photographer’ on 26 May at 7:30 pm will be repeated on 27 May at 3:30 am and at 11:30 am. The film highlights the wildlife photography in China. Apart from the traditional equipment the film also highlight usage of latest electronic and other professional accessories to achieve the best result.

  • DD Bharati telecasts mutual interest programs coinciding with Prez’s visit to China

    DD Bharati telecasts mutual interest programs coinciding with Prez’s visit to China

    NEW DELHI: Doordarshan and China’s pubcaster CCTV (China Central Television) are telecasting series of programmes aimed at fostering better people to people understanding between the two countries to coincide with the visit of president Pranab Mukherjee to China.

    The president is in China from today to 27 May and this has led to an interesting exchange of programmes between the public broadcasters of two countries..

    This exchange of programmes comes under the ambit of an MOU signed in May 2015, when prime minister Narendra Modi and Chinese premier Li Keqiang expanded the cooperation between the two countries from films to television co-productions. 

    Prasar Bharati CEO Jawahar Sircar had played an instrumental role in the signing of this agreement with CCTV President Nie Chen Xi.

    The telecast of the selected programmes on the two platforms is on gratis basis. The genre of the programmes range from art, culture, education, science, wildlife, entertainment, tourism, adventure sports, news and current affairs along with human interest, development and success stories.

    DD Bharati scheduled four documentaries of which the first telecast last night was titled‘Laughing Meat Balls’. This documentary gave viewers a valuable peep into the biopic of the founder of the Laughing Meat Balls club. Narrating the overall achievements and qualities of this theatre group, the documentary clearly highlights the essence of traditional Chinese opera.

    A documentary titled ‘A Family of Bowyers’ will be telecast on today at 7:30 pm. The repeat telecast will air on 25 May at 3:30 am and at 11:30 am. This documentary outlines the traditional family trade of quality bow making.

    A third documentary titled ‘My Solo Tour to France’ will be telecast on 25 May at 7:30 pm. The repeat telecast will air on 26 May at 3:30 am and at 11:30 am. It is a story about a person who takes his bicycle to tour the extensive journey of France. The cyclist narrates his experiences and happening during his tour in France.

    The fourth documentary titled ‘Wildlife Photographer’ on 26 May at 7:30 pm will be repeated on 27 May at 3:30 am and at 11:30 am. The film highlights the wildlife photography in China. Apart from the traditional equipment the film also highlight usage of latest electronic and other professional accessories to achieve the best result.

  • Convert DD regional channels into 24-hour channels in Hindi belt: Prasar Bharati

    Convert DD regional channels into 24-hour channels in Hindi belt: Prasar Bharati

    NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati is in favour of converting some of Doordarshan’s regional channels in the Hindi belt into round-the-clock cable and satellite channels.

     

    These include Chandigarh, Dehradun, Shimla, Ranchi, Hussar, Raipur, and Jammu regional channels. At present, some of these channels are put on the terrestrial network for around four hours when DD National goes off the National Network. At such times, Delhi’s Doordarshan Kendra transmits its programmes terrestrially.

    Prasar Bharati CEO Jawahar Sircar said at a meeting of the Prasar Bharati Board yesterday that an optimisation committee would study the various aspects related to carrying out of this transition. “The board has given in-principle approval to the scaling up of these channels,” an official said.

    Sircar said turning them into round-the- clock channels would not require much of additional resources.
     

    The Board is also in favour of monetising the excess land available around fifty radio transmitters all over the country that are not being adequately used to generate revenues for Prasar Bharati. (It is understood that the Government has earlier opposed this on the ground that this was public property and also for security reasons.) Prasar Bharati feels this land can be given out to public sector companies or banks as this will not compromise the security aspects.

     

    Speaking at a World Radio Day function organised by the News Services Division of AIR, Sircar had said yesterday that even the Parliamentary Standing Committee had favoured monetisation of this land.

     

    The Board also recommended that Doordarshan towers could be utilised all over the country to carry FM radio transmission to strengthen the FM network.

    Earlier Prasar Bharati had turned four Doordarshan channels from part-time to round-the-clock channels in the Hindi heartland states of Bihar, UP, MP and Rajasthan.

    Officials said the Board also favoured putting the historical speeches of national leaders in Prasar Bharati’s archives on the internet. 

  • DD gets board clearance to initiate steps for legal action against TAM

    DD gets board clearance to initiate steps for legal action against TAM

    NEW DELHI: TAM Media, the sole television ratings agency in India, is now under attack from the pubcaster. The Prasar Bharati board Monday formally gave approval to Doordarshan to finalise the parameters of legal action against TAM for generally overlooking the ratings of the state-owned network which has the largest reach in the country.

    Prasar Bharati chief executive officer Jawahar Sircar told indiantelevision.com that the board took cognizance of the grievances of Doordarshan in this regard.

    The board was apprised of the discussions held so far with the legal experts. The board would approach the Information and Broadcasting Ministry after getting the legal opinion.

    Doordarshan has the largest reach terrestrially through local cable operators and around 20 per cent of the market through various DTH platforms.

    The action by Prasar Bharati comes close on the heels of the case filed by NDTV in a New York court against The Nielsen Co, a global research and information firm, and Kantar Media Research, the owners of TAM Media. NDTV has sought $810 million as compensation for the loss in revenues it has suffered over the years and $580 million in penalty for negligence by Nielsen and Kantar officials.

    Doordarshan with a reach of 92 per cent in the country through 1415 transmitters has a terrestrial reach to around 25 million viewers, apart from those getting the feed through the DTH and other platforms. In fact, Sircar claimed that DD Direct Plus is reaching out to another ten million viewers, thus taking the direct reach to 35 million.

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