{"id":224316,"date":"2023-01-31T19:09:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T13:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=224316"},"modified":"2023-02-25T10:37:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T05:07:28","slug":"ib-ministry-issues-advisory-on-private-tv-channels-public-service-broadcasting-obligation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ib-ministry-issues-advisory-on-private-tv-channels-public-service-broadcasting-obligation\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#038;B Ministry issues advisory on private TV channels\u2019 \u2018public service broadcasting\u2019 obligation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span> <b>\u201c<\/b><b>I&amp;B Ministry issues advisory on private TV channels\u2019 \u2018public service broadcasting\u2019 obligation<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu<\/b> on <b>31st January 2023<\/b><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Information &amp; Broadcasting (MIB) has issued fresh advisories with respect to the Guidelines for Uplinking and Downlinking of Television Channels in India,2022. Through the advisory, the Ministry has clarified certain points of the guidelines.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the key provisions of the Guidelines for Uplinking and Downlinking of Television Channels in India,2022?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-devises-new-guidelines-for-tv-channels-broadcast-of-socially-relevant-topics-compulsory\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the fresh advisories issued related to the guidelines?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>National Interest Content: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From March 1, 2023, all private television channels will be required to air national interest content for 15 hours every month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The national interest content can be embedded in the programmes being telecast, and the content need not be of 30 minutes at a stretch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The transmission of such content would be flexible, except that any content transmitted from midnight to 6 a.m. would not be accounted for under the public service broadcasting obligation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">content could include the themes of education and the spread of literacy; agriculture and rural development; health and family welfare; science and technology; the welfare of women and the weaker sections of society; protection of environment and cultural heritage; and national integration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Sharing of content:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">national interest content <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">can be shared between the broadcasters and telecast repeatedly on one or several TV channels.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 A common e-platform can also be developed as a repository of relevant videos or textual content from various sources for access and use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Keeping the record of the content telecast: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The broadcasters are required to keep a record of the content telecast for a period of 90 days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The government requires the broadcasters to submit a monthly report online on the Broadcast Seva Portal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Exemptions from telecasting National Interest Content:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This condition applies to all channels except those mentioned specifically as exempt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 These include wildlife channels and foreign channels, besides live telecasts in the case of sports channels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Channels broadcasting more than 12 hours of devotional\/spiritual\/yoga content are exempt from furnishing monthly reports.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cI&amp;B Ministry issues advisory on private TV channels\u2019 \u2018public service broadcasting\u2019 obligation\u201d published in The Hindu on 31st January 2023. What is the News? The Ministry of Information &amp; Broadcasting (MIB) has issued fresh advisories with respect to the Guidelines for Uplinking and Downlinking of Television Channels&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ib-ministry-issues-advisory-on-private-tv-channels-public-service-broadcasting-obligation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#038;B Ministry issues advisory on private TV channels\u2019 \u2018public service broadcasting\u2019 obligation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-224316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700773425,"cached_date":1701183402},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}