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The News Broadcasters & Digital Association (NBDA) yesterday flagged the twin issues of a contentious bidding process for limited slots on Doordarshan FreeDish and the audience measurement data generated by BARC India, amongst others, in a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. According to several people in the know, the NBDA delegation, led by its […]
Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati, which manages Doordarshan and Akashvani, is faced with a Hamletian choice after broadcast regulator TRAI’s recent recommendations on FreeDish: to have interoperability or not? The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)’s recommendations on July 8, 2024 relating to Doordarshan FreeDish, amongst other issues, has once again given rise to the debate […]
Despite a public broadcaster’s noble and laudable goals, maybe it’s not always feasible to give such a service free run; especially when it commercially competes with similar private sector services and still remains outside the stringent regulatory regimen laid out for others. So, when TRAI, in its ‘Recommendations on Listing of Television Channels in Electronic Program […]
In the fiscal year ending March 2024, India’s four private direct-to-home (DTH) operators lost a significant 3.28 million active subscribers, the Economic Times reported, quoting the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) Performance Indicator Report released last week. Despite the allure of major sporting events like the Indian Premier League (IPL) and the ICC Men’s […]
Amongst a slew of recommendations to the government, telecom and broadcast regulator TRAI yesterday issued a new set of tariff regulations, which removed earlier ceiling on network capacity fees and allows DPOs to offer bouquet discount up to 45 percent, while separately suggesting major tech upgrades to pubcaster Doordarshan’s FreeDish platform, including that boxes should […]
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has kept OTT out of regulation in its recommendations for the proposed National Broadcasting Policy-2024 (NBP). According to an ANI report from New Delhi, OTT platforms are streaming and audio-visual platforms that began as content hosts but quickly expanded to include the creation and distribution of web series, […]
