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NEW DELHI: With Prasar Bharati’s annual revenue on the slide as the gap between earnings and spending has increased over the years, a proposal has been...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting (I&B) minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today set the cat among the pigeons by stating in the Parliament’s Upper House (Rajya Sabha)...
NEW DELHI:Fazed by criticism and non-cooperation from the industry, Indias federal government is preparing the ground for calling for a review (read, near-junking) of conditional access...
NEW DELHI: Though the much-touted community radio project till now is a non-starter, the government today said that 39 institutions, including universities, have applied for licences....
NEW DELHI: While the high-profile TV channels have come under the scanner for “depicting woman in a vulgar manner” and airing “programmes against Indian culture”, closer...
NEW DELHI: A day after information & broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad rubbished Delhi chief minister Sheila Dixit’s charge that there was a whole load of...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan (DD) and All India Radio (AIR) may soon get full-fledged director-generals (DG), if everything goes well with the selection process which...
NEW DELHI: The government today admitted that from the time implementation of conditional access system (CAS) was deferred in the three metros of Kolkata, Mumbai and...
NEW DELHI: The government has taken several initiatives to bring about changes in the entertainment sector in the interest of the overall development of this sector....
NEW DELHI: It is not only the likes of Star News, CNBC-TV18 and Zee News that have to restructure their shareholding pattern to comply with the...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati is examining a proposal to have Doordarshan’s international channel, DD India, distributed in the United Kingdom through the Rupert Murdoch-controlled...
NEW DELHI: Malaysia must tackle its ‘rampant’ music and video disc piracy problems with stiffer penalties and a hunt for those at the root of the...
NEW DELHI: The Bill relating to the proposed Broadcast Content Regulatory Authority of India may not be taken up by policy-makers during the present winter session...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Seems like information and broadcasting (I&B) minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has unwittingly created a controversy where there was none. Media reports yesterday quoted Prasad...
NEW DELHI: Minister for information and broadcasting Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that there is a definite need for a separate regulatory body for electronic media....
NEW DELHI: This could turn out to be music to the ears of the financially beleaguered private players in the FM radio sector. In what...
MUMBAI: Last night it was well-informed speculation. Today it is as good as confirmed. Though the official announcement is still to be made, information & broadcasting...
MUMBAI: The Central government on Monday has stated that it would ask the state governments to cap entertainment tax at 45 per cent. It will also...
Conditional access system (CAS), new uplinking norms for the TV news channels, KU-band direct-to-home (DTH) television service finally on the horizon – it has been action...
NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting (I&B) minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said, the government would soon formulate a comprehensive media policy after having wide-ranging consultations with...
NEW DELHI: India today dumped onto the backburner its attempt to have an over-arching law for the convergence era (telecom, broadcasting and infotech) with a high-powered...
NEW DELHI: Multi-system operators (MSOs) are meeting the information and broadcasting (I&B) minister Ravi Shankar Prasad around 3.30 pm today on conditional access system (CAS). One...
NEW DELHI: Taking a similar line to that he adopted on a just-concluded tour of South India, information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry has said that if a government-mandated task force on radio broadcast policy recommends allowing of news and current...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The Indian government continues to be in a bind over conditional access system (CAS) and its implementation in Mumbai and Kolkata with...
NEW DELHI: India’s federal government is still in a spot over the implementation, rather non-implementation, of the conditional access system (CAS) in the cities of Mumbai...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Media Group (IMG), a newly-formed body of domestic media companies with the exception of few like Hindustan Times, today met senior ministers...
NEW DELHI: ,-owned Hindustan Times Ltd, is keeping all its options open, including a deal with the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star India, but said no “conclusions” have...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will meet prime minister A B Vajpayee this evening on the issue of conditional access system(CAS),...
MUMBAI: In what could well be an unconscious bid to cement the Indo-Pak differences, a number of Indian TV artistes and producers have signed up for...
NEW DELHI: Uncertainty still hangs over the fate of conditional access system (CAS) as a senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader, Madan Lal Khurana, today said after...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The group of ministers (GoM) panel, set up last month to examine the Star News case in particular and media policies in...
NEW DELHI: The group of ministers (GoM) panel looking into the matter of Star News, aka uplinking issue, feels that the foreign investment guidelines for news...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is contemplating whether pubcaster Prasar Bharati, which manages the affairs of Doordarshan and All India Radio, can be given some concession...
NEW DELHI: The Prasar Bharati Corporation board met here today to discuss various issues, but did not touch upon the subject of an imminent ouster of...
MUMBAI: Veteran actor Anupam Kher has been chosen the new chairman of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). This was announced in New Delhi by...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government today gave another 14-days extension to Star News for uplinking purpose from the country after the file was cleared by information...
NEW DELHI: “Conditional access system will bring a smile on the face of every consumer.” This is how information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad described...
NEW DELHI: Controversy notwithstanding, Star News is likely to get another extension for uplinking from India when the final extension expires Wednesday midnight. This was indicated...
NEW DELHI: Practice makes a man perfect. This seems to be the adage followed by the Indian government and pubcaster Prasar Bharati Corporation, which oversees the...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government now is setting up a conditional access system (CAS) implementation committee to monitor the preparedness for a phased out rollout of...
NEW DELHI:The ministry of information & broadcasting will take steps to evolve Model Cinema Regulations, which could be adopted by the States. A delegation of the...
NEW DELHI: Sagar Enterprises, Prannoy Roy’s NDTV, Nimbus Communications, along with the likes of Creative Eye, Multichannel, Sanjay Khan’s Numero Uno and Balaji Telefilms figure in...
NEW DELHI: Information & broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has called for a proper balance and synergy between the commercialisation of the broadcast media and the...
NEW DELHI: The government is determined to keep Star News on tenterhooks as it did not take a decision on its uplinking even today. A senior...
NEW DELHI: It is not just the pay broadcasters that the government sees as at fault over the mess that is CAS. The government is miffed...
NEW DELHI: Even as the Indian broadcasters met the Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit, a staunch opponent of conditional access rollout, Prime Minister AB Vajpayee held...
MUMBAI: The Union cabinet this morning “informally” discussed the draft Ordinance prepared by information and broadcasting ministry to regulate broadcasters in a post-conditional access environment Parliamentary...
NEW DELHI: The confusion over the alternative and seemingly unviable options being mooted by the information and broadcasting ministry have forced broadcasters to approach PMO officials....
NEW DELHI: The minister of information & broadcasting Ravi Shankar Prasad has called upon the media, both print and electronic, to exercise self-restraint while reporting on...
