Doing a balancing act in Supreme Court after being called on to answer whether sting operations intruded on the privacy of individuals, the Centre has said it may set up a Broadcasting Regulatory Authority to take cognizance of programme code violations by TV channels. The affidavit of the information and broadcasting ministry came in response to a petition filed by 'Pilot Baba' who had accused TV...
Television channels may come under the government scanner. Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Priyaranjan Dasmunshi has openly criticised the television rating point system of viewership assessment and news content, says a Business Standard report. Some details: Speaking in Kolkata at the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, Das Munsi said, "The TRP mechanism in India is...
The BBC's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, is to launch a further 30 channels internationally, as well as a high-definition outlet and an on-demand service in the United States, as part of the next stage of its aggressive expansion plan. The launches, which will be based on four thematic brands - BBC Entertainment, with shows such as Doctor Who; BBC Knowledge, featuring programmes such as Top Gear...
SINGAPORE : More than 8 in 10 adults above 15 years old watch television on an average daily basis, according to a Nielsen Media Research survey. While this is a marginal decline from one year ago, Nielsen said free-to-air channels are holding their own against cable television and the Internet. If a viewer was watching television yesterday, chances are he would have been watching a local channel...
Fox Business Network, which launched Oct. 15, won’t be rated until sometime next year. But the fledgling financial service during its first four days on the air apparently took some viewers away from segment leader CNBC. CNBC saw viewership decline across several measures from Monday Oct. 15 through Thursday Oct. 18, when compared with prior-week results. However, CNBC officials note the network...
The team leading the Fox Business Network into battle with CNBC, the entrenched leader in cable business news, has made no secret that it intends to do in the realm of business news exactly what the Fox News Channel did in general news. As in: conquer. And even before today’s premiere, there are already indications of just how fiercely the battle will be waged. In a pep talk to his troops Friday...
NEW DELHI: The government on Friday lifted the month-long ban on TV news channel Live India — earlier called Janmat . The I&B ministry had banned the channel on September 20 for telecasting an allegedly "fake" sting operation against a government school teacher Uma Khurana. This was the first instance of a news channel being banned. In an official statement, the ministry said that the channel had...
The industry has tried to get the word out, but many consumers still aren't getting the message: In a year and a half, millions of television screens could go dark. Not the fancy high-definition TVs or those connected to cable or satellite. But the 70 million sets relying on rooftop or "rabbit ears" antennas will end up showing nothing but snow. Broadcasters will stop sending analog signals and...
When Al-Jazeera Intl. finally launched in November of last year following a series of delays, expectations were high for the English-language newscaster. With $1 billion reportedly spent on building four interconnected global news centers in London, Washington, Kuala Lumpur and Doha, in addition to some 30 international news bureaus and a splashy lineup of reporters including David Frost, Riz Khan...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The government banned a TV news channel for a month on Thursday after it aired a misleading sting operation in which it accused a Delhi teacher of blackmailing her students into becoming prostitutes. Live India showed hidden camera footage and an anonymous interview with a supposed victim last month, accusing the teacher of drugging her students and making pornographic images...
