India’s football body invites commercial rights bids for 15 years 
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SC judge Nagarathna says media can’t perform under constraint 
JioStar’s Piyush Goyal outlines vision for ‘Any Screen, Any Pipe’ future of TV 
Anupam Kher’s ‘Tanvi The Great’ to stream on Prime Video from today 
‘Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety’ to re-release in theatres on March 6 
Harry Styles’ Manchester concert to stream on Netflix 
Vi signs three-year deal as official communications partner of CSK 
ACT Fibernet elevates Aditya Singh as CCE Officer 
The government issued notice to two Malayalam news channels to go off air in 2020 as they had breached certain important sections of the content code under the Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995.
Category: Regulation
On OTT self-regulation, MIB blames industry
The Indian government has laid the blame on the doorstep of the industry for failing to come up with a suitable self regulatory mechanism for content on OTT platforms and not heeding government suggestions, if statement made in parliament by...
Will MIB bless IAMAI OTT tool kit?
The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), the Indian trade association that drafted two versions of self regulatory codes for platforms that stream curated content --- the last September 2020 version was outright rejected by the government owing to gaps in proper complaint redressal mechanism--- yesterday ca...
MIB: OTT guidelines ‘ready to be implemented soon’
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar yesterday said that guidelines for OTT platforms operating in India are almost ready to be rolled out. “Guidelines and directions are almost ready on OTT platforms and will soon be ...
Finance Ministry ‘no’ to infrastructure status
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has said that the Finance Ministry, in charge of economic policies, was not in favour of granting ‘industry status’ to cable distribution segment of the broadcasting sector.
MIB says no deadline for national b’cast policy formulation
While admitting that consultations are underway to formulate a national broadcast policy in India to further empower the broadcast sector, the government has said there’s no time frame to firm up the National Broadcast Policy, which has “multi-dimensional implications”.