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The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB) cancelled the licence of 13 TV channels, including eight news and five non-news channels, in January.
The companies whose TV channel licences were cancelled include Triveni Media, Neon Solution, NDTV Ltd, Pompash Fiscal Services and Satlon Enterprise.
The MIB showed the door to Satlon Enterprises’ Gujarati news channel Sandesh News (earlier Satlon News). Sandesh News is owned by Falgun Patel, who is also the main promoter of Gujarati daily Sandesh. Patel is also related to former Gujarat chief minister Chimanbhai Patel.
Incidentally, the MIB’s Inter Ministerial Committee (IMC) had prohibited the transmission or re-transmission of Sandesh News for 30 days on any platform throughout India, from 15 April to 14 May, for violation of programme code of the Cable Television Network Act, 1994.
The channel had allegedly in its report on 28 April 2014 carried n*de visuals of actors which were not sufficiently morphed or blurred while telecasting a news report on a private corporate party organised in a five-star hotel on the Pune–Mumbai highway.
New Delhi-based Triveni Media was the biggest loser with all seven of its licences getting scrapped. These included five news channels, namely TML Voice of India UP, TML Voice of India Punjab/Haryana/Himachal Pradesh, TML Voice of India Rajasthan, TML Voice of India Madhya Pradesh and TML Voice of India, besides two non-news channels, TML Voice of India Music and TML Voice of India Lifestyle.
NDTV’s cancelled licences included Granada TV and Trace Sports HD. The company is distributing the two channels in India and South Asia. Granada TV is a general entertainment channel owned by the UK’s ITV while Trace Sports Star (earlier Trace Sports HD) is a sports lifestyle channel. The two channels were launched in 2012.
Kanpur-based Pompash Fiscal Services lost two licences under the name Channel C Uttar Pradesh and Channel C. Both the licences were in news category.
The licence of Neo Solution’s travel channel Voyages Television was also cancelled.
As reported earlier, the MIB had issued three licences in January to Star Suvarna HD, Dighvijay TV and Jai Paras TV to Asianet Communications, VRL Media and Parshavnath Media, respectively.
With the 10 licence cancellations and three new licences, the total permitted private satellite TV channels having valid permission in India stood at 889, as on 31 January. These included 392 news and current affairs channels and 497 non-news and current affairs channels.
As on 31 December, the total permitted TV channels stood at 899 including 399 news and 500 non-news channels.
MIB cancelled 13 TV channel licences in January | TelevisionPost.com
The companies whose TV channel licences were cancelled include Triveni Media, Neon Solution, NDTV Ltd, Pompash Fiscal Services and Satlon Enterprise.
The MIB showed the door to Satlon Enterprises’ Gujarati news channel Sandesh News (earlier Satlon News). Sandesh News is owned by Falgun Patel, who is also the main promoter of Gujarati daily Sandesh. Patel is also related to former Gujarat chief minister Chimanbhai Patel.
Incidentally, the MIB’s Inter Ministerial Committee (IMC) had prohibited the transmission or re-transmission of Sandesh News for 30 days on any platform throughout India, from 15 April to 14 May, for violation of programme code of the Cable Television Network Act, 1994.
The channel had allegedly in its report on 28 April 2014 carried n*de visuals of actors which were not sufficiently morphed or blurred while telecasting a news report on a private corporate party organised in a five-star hotel on the Pune–Mumbai highway.
New Delhi-based Triveni Media was the biggest loser with all seven of its licences getting scrapped. These included five news channels, namely TML Voice of India UP, TML Voice of India Punjab/Haryana/Himachal Pradesh, TML Voice of India Rajasthan, TML Voice of India Madhya Pradesh and TML Voice of India, besides two non-news channels, TML Voice of India Music and TML Voice of India Lifestyle.
NDTV’s cancelled licences included Granada TV and Trace Sports HD. The company is distributing the two channels in India and South Asia. Granada TV is a general entertainment channel owned by the UK’s ITV while Trace Sports Star (earlier Trace Sports HD) is a sports lifestyle channel. The two channels were launched in 2012.
Kanpur-based Pompash Fiscal Services lost two licences under the name Channel C Uttar Pradesh and Channel C. Both the licences were in news category.
The licence of Neo Solution’s travel channel Voyages Television was also cancelled.
As reported earlier, the MIB had issued three licences in January to Star Suvarna HD, Dighvijay TV and Jai Paras TV to Asianet Communications, VRL Media and Parshavnath Media, respectively.
With the 10 licence cancellations and three new licences, the total permitted private satellite TV channels having valid permission in India stood at 889, as on 31 January. These included 392 news and current affairs channels and 497 non-news and current affairs channels.
As on 31 December, the total permitted TV channels stood at 899 including 399 news and 500 non-news channels.
MIB cancelled 13 TV channel licences in January | TelevisionPost.com
Trace Sports star n ITV Choice/Granada license got cancelled :gn
