Prasar Bharati, Egypt’s NMA sign TV, radio pact

India and Egypt have signed a memorandum of understanding to facilitate content exchange, capacity building, and co-productions between Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati and National Media Authority of Egypt. The pact was signed by Anurag Singh Thakur, Minister of Information & Broadcasting and Sameh Hassan Shoukry, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Egypt. The agreements were exchanged between […]

Prasar Bharati mulling OTT platform

Prasar Bharati is “evaluating” the possibility of coming up with an OTT platform months after it signed an agreement with YuppTV to expand the global reach of Doordarshan’s DD India channel, a senior official said on Friday. “That is something we are working upon, evaluating,” the Prasar Bharati official said during an informal interaction with […]

Prasar Bharati on digital mode; FreeDish has 43 mn subs: Thakur

India’s pubcaster Prasar Bharati has phased out all analog terrestrial transmitters except 50 installed at “strategic locations”, Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur has said. In 2017, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) had recommended introduction of digital terrestrial transmission for broadcast services in a phased manner and a complete shutdown of the analog […]

Prasar Bharati ADG elected ABU vice-president

Prasar Bharati Additional Director General Sunil has been unanimously elected as the Vice President of the Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU). Sunil has been elected for a three-year term. Prasar Bharati, parent of Doordrashan and All India Radio, late November hosted the 59th ABU General Assembly and Associated Meetings in New Delhi. Its General Assembly was […]

Prasar Bharati aborts kids’ TV content acquisition process

India’s public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has called off a process, announced earlier, to acquire  ready-made TV content for Doordarshan. “Prasar Bharati…called for submission of proposals for acquisition of off the shelf, that is readymade content. The process has now been called off due to technical reasons,” it said in a recent communication. Prasar Bharati, parent of […]

Prasar Bharati News Services to use AWS to scale services

Prasar Bharati News Services (PBNS), the digital arm of the public broadcasting service Prasar Bharati, will use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host and scale its expansive network. By moving to AWS, PBNS will have the capacity, reliability, and scalability to deliver news to over 894 million viewers and listeners in more than 190 countries. […]