Prasar Bharati Member Finance Negi gets additional charge

Prasar Bharati Member Finance D P S Negi has been given the additional charge of member personnel of the body by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The Union Information and Broadcasting Minister has given approval for giving additional charge of member personnel, Prasar Bharati, to Member Finance Negi, till a suitable candidate is appointed […]

FreeDish emerges as platform for national outreach: Prasar Bharati

Public and national outreach to the masses across India through television has received a tremendous boost with the DD FreeDish platform. Staying true to its public service mandate, Prasar Bharati’s FreeDish had stood out in serving the people during the pandemic by enabling massive public outreach and dissemination through its platform. While the traditional education […]

MIB Minister Anurag Thakur says Prasar Bharati income up

The income of India’s pubcaster Prasar Bharati has increased over the last two years versus expenditures, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur has said. “No sir. Excess of Income over Expenditure of Prasar Bharati, as per their Book of Accounts, has increased from Rs.182.96 Cr in 2018-19 to Rs.323.26 Cr in 2020-21,” Thakur said […]

Prasar Bharati invites TV channels’ bid for FreeDish MPEG-4 slots

Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati has invited applications for allotment of MPEG-4 slots on Doordarshan’s FTA DTH platform Free Dish for the period of April 2022 to March 2023. Bidding for the MPEG-4 slots will be open to all genre (language) TV channels at a reserve price of Rs. 50,000,00 per annum. The slots on FreeDish, […]

Global youth tuning into AIR, says Prasar Bharati

Latest NewsOnAir Radio live-stream global ranking measurement for listenership across age-groups reveals that more than one third of the global listeners (excluding India) are in the age group of 18 to 44, corroborating NewsOnAir App’s huge popularity among the youth across the world. In the latest rankings of top countries in the world (excluding India) […]

Prasar Bharati cautions against 526-617 Mhz spectrum auction for 5G services

Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharati has said that till the time issues relating to its existing terrestrial and satellite services are taken care of, it would be advisable to put on hold proposed auctioning of spectrum in the 526-617 Mhz bandwidth for IMT and 5G services. “…whole frequency band 526-617 MHz band should not be put […]