Prasar Bharati scouts for ad vendors to monetise real estate

With prime properties all over India, country’s public broadcaster Prasar Bharati presents an unique opportunity to advertisers to promote their products. And, in the process, the organisation earns revenues. The Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited (BECIL) has invited expression of interest (EOI) for empanelment of agencies for installation of advertisements at Prasar Bharati sites all […]

Prasar Bharati unveils procurement policy to streamline processes

In the spirit of ease of doing business at India’s Prasar Bharati, for the first time a procurement policy has been etched out that was released by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting Secretary Apurva Chandra. The pubcaster’s procurement policy is a directive to all procurement entities,, including All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan (DD), […]

DD DG Agrawal gets additional charge of Prasar Bharati CEO

With Prasar Bharati CEO Shashi S. Vempati tenure ending Wednesday and a successor not yet selected, Director-General of Doordarshan and DD News, Mayank Kumar Agrawal, has been entrusted with additional charge of CEO. The decision on Agrawal’s interim dual charge was taken by Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur as the hunt for Vempati’s […]

Prasar Bharati, IIT-K to organise event on b’cast & 5G b’band convergence

With the view to bring telecom and broadcasting policy makers together to discuss India’s way forward on the road to convergence of broadcast and 5G broadband, a conclave is been organised today by the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) along with Prasar Bharati and Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India. The theme of the […]

Prasar Bharati unveils new content & ad codes for DD, AIR

Prasar Bharati, parent of Indian Doordarshan and All India Radio, has unveiled the new advertising and programming code for the two pubcasters with the content norms borrowing a little from the do’s and don’ts listed in the Cable TV Networks Regulation Act. The programme code of Prasar Bharati envisages “broad guidelines for the production of […]

Prasar Bharati to air Women’s NBA, NBA G on DD Sports

Prasar Bharati, the public service broadcaster, on Tuesday announced the addition of WNBA and NBA G League programming to its daily offering on Doordarshan (DD) Sports, its free-to-air sports channel. The WNBA and NBA G League programming will be added to DD Sports’ twice daily basketball slots in the morning and evening. In addition to […]