Prasar Bharati invites bids for DD Free Dish slots

Prasar Bharati, parent of India’s national broadcaster Doordarshan, has invited applications for allotment of vacant MPEG-4 slots of DD Free Dish for the period September 1, 2021to March 31, 2022 through 55th online e-auction. The online e-auction process is likely to be held in the afternoon of August 23. The slot(s) will be allotted in […]

Pubcaster Prasar Bharati goes paperless with e-office

Use of technology has turned the operations at India’s public broadcaster Prasar Bharati around, the government said yesterday. It’s no more business as usual. In less than two years, 577 centers and 22,348 employees of Doordarshan (DD) and All India Radio (AIR) have embraced e-office operations. Well established IT-enabled working structure through e-office at Prasar […]

Prasar Bharati CEO decries global pubcasters’ click-bait reporting

Indian pubcaster Prasar Bharti’s CEO Shashi Shekhar Vempati while highlighting the constructive role played by his organization during the pandemic, rues the click-bait journalism adopted by some global public service broadcasters. Vempati said that more than 70 of Doordarshan’s TV channels broadcast educational content to address the needs of students from different parts of the […]

Prasar Bharati ‘NewsOnAir’ app popular beyond India

India’s national broadcaster Prasar Bharati’s mobile application, ‘NewsOnAir’, accounted for the highest digital audience in France apart from India, and followed by the USA, Australia, United Kingdom, Fiji, Canada, UAE, New Zealand, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia. Apart from being a widely used mobile application in France, All India Radio’s Vividh Bharati has also been successful […]

Prasar Bharati’s `NewsOn Air’ app shows strong growth

The official Prasar Bharati app ‘NewsOnAir’ saw 2.5 million users joining the platform in 2020. At present, the platform has over 300 million views with live radio streaming being the most popular feature, with more than 200 streams, according to a top government official. While making the observations on the `NewsOnAir’ app and its growth, […]

Prasar Bharati shuttering analog TV transmitters

The Indian government has said keeping pace with the march of digital technology in the area of broadcasting, country’s pubcaster Prasar Bharati is phasing out analog terrestrial TV transmitters. The government added that such closures of analog services are being replaced by Doordarshan’s digital DTH service, Free Dish. The DTH service is free to air […]