OTT makes Indian content accessible to global audience: I&B secy Apurva Chandra

One of the primary reasons why Indian material is more acceptable globally now is that it is being translated into more languages, which OTT platforms have enabled, said Apurva Chandra, Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I & B), Government of India, in Mumbai on Thursday. The I & B Secretary stated during a keynote […]

Guest Column: Cable industry must innovate to survive

By Ashok Mansukhani The broadcast and telecom regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is ‘upbeat’ about the cable distribution business. The Industry Regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) had described the health of the Indian TV Distribution Industry in 2022 as “vibrant with the presence of multiple platforms such as Cable TV, DTH, HITS, and IPTV.  India has the second […]

Amazon, MIB sign pact to promote India’s creative economy

Amazon India yesterday announced that it has signed a Letter of Engagement (LoE) with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) with an objective of growing India’s creative economy. As part of this collaboration, Amazon and MIB will help build pathways to promote creative talent in India, create capacity across eminent film and TV institutes, […]

DD channels shown fluctuating viewership trends: Minister

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has said that national broadcaster Doordarshan’s channels have shown fluctuating viewership trends. “PrasarBharati has informed that there has been fluctuating trend in viewership among the Doordarshan channels and the viewership for DD Retro, DD Sports and DD Punjabi channels are in rising trend since 2021 onwards,” Minister of Information […]

65 pvt. TV channels hop onto DD FreeDish platform

Some 65 TV channels, which include those from genres like general entertainment, news, sports, and wellness and religious, have managed to be successful in finding berths on Doordarshan FreeDish platform in the MPEG-2 category. Some of the Hindi news channels, if media reports are to be believed, shelled out hefty amounts while bidding for space […]

Bharat24, India TV, Good News Today bag FreeDish slots

The auctions for shelf space on Doordarshan FreeDish continued yesterday as Tv news channels competed with each other fiercely outside the category reserved for news and current affairs channels. The successful ones included Bharat24 (Rs. 17.15 crore), India TV (Rs. 18.65 crore) and Good News Today (Rs.17.90 crore). Meanwhile, In the auctions for A+ category […]