The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) has written to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) seeing a revision of some of the policies of the ministry of information and broadcasting (MIB) including the levy of processing fee for temporary uplink of live events and the need for security clearances to start new channels. IBF has said in […]
Good news for Doordarshan viewers! For the first time, select IPL matches including the opening and closing ceremonies, are set to be telecast on a one hour deferred live basis by Doordarshan, the national broadcaster. There will be a 50:50 revenue sharing between Star India, which had bagged the IPL media rights last September and […]
MUMBAI: Doordarshan’s free direct to home (DTH) platform Free Dish has seen a drop in its TV channel offering. The DTH platform is now offering 72 channels which is less than the 80 channels that it was offering at its peak. These eight channels including Baba Ramdev’s Aastha channel are believed to have left the […]
Rajyavardhan Rathore, junior minister for information and broadcasting today confirmed that Doordarshan has given permission to eleven companies to manufacture set top boxes with encryption for use on its DTH service DD Free Dish. The statement confirms that the much delayed encryption of the service is on track and will be implemented once the stock […]
In a good news for the Indian Premier League (IPL) fans, the matches of Indian professional Twenty20 cricket league will be broadcast on Doordarshan. This is claimed by an English TV channel Republic World on 30th November. It is also being told that there may be some changes in the IPL this time too. According […]
NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati has two days more to come out with the real reason for suspending the auctions on its DTH service FreeDish in August this year. From 27 October 2017 the telecoms and broadcast disputes tribunal TDSAT will hear two petitions challenging the decision of public broadcaster. In the last hearing, the tribunal […]
Doordarshan channel, saw its losses mounting to an estimated Rs 800 crore during 2016-17 (April-March), according to a source close to the development. The reason behind these mounting losses, said the source can be attributed to the fact that while private operators pay a paltry sum of Rs 6 crore – Rs 8 crore rupees […]
