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The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB) has cancelled two more TV channel licences in July. With this, the total number of cancellations rise to 197.
Both the cancelled licences were in the non-news downlinking category.
Real Global Broadcasting’s Food First licence, which was issued on 23 December 2008, has been cancelled.
Travel Channel India’s licence under Travel Channel has also been cancelled. The company was issued licence on 8 November 2011.
The ministry has cancelled 42 licences in 2017 until 31 July, MIB data showed.
The MIB had cancelled 13 TV channel licences in January, one in February, 10 in March, 10 in May, six in June and two in July.
In June, the ministry had cancelled licences of Bangla Entertainment’s Aath, Fast Track Media and Communication’s Techno India Television, Heritage Tele Venture and Media’s 365 Din, Noida Software Technology Park Ltd’s (NSTPL) KBS World, Planet E-shop Holdings India’s Miraclenet, and Pragya Vision’s MahuaaPlus.
In May, 10 TV licences were cancelled including that of Sony Pictures Networks India’s subsidiary Bangla Entertainment’s non-news uplinking licence under the name Sony Tec. ZEEL’s uplinking-only non-news licence Zee TV Russia was also withdrawn.
MIB cancels 2 TV channel licences in July | TelevisionPost.com
Both the cancelled licences were in the non-news downlinking category.
Real Global Broadcasting’s Food First licence, which was issued on 23 December 2008, has been cancelled.
Travel Channel India’s licence under Travel Channel has also been cancelled. The company was issued licence on 8 November 2011.
The ministry has cancelled 42 licences in 2017 until 31 July, MIB data showed.
The MIB had cancelled 13 TV channel licences in January, one in February, 10 in March, 10 in May, six in June and two in July.
In June, the ministry had cancelled licences of Bangla Entertainment’s Aath, Fast Track Media and Communication’s Techno India Television, Heritage Tele Venture and Media’s 365 Din, Noida Software Technology Park Ltd’s (NSTPL) KBS World, Planet E-shop Holdings India’s Miraclenet, and Pragya Vision’s MahuaaPlus.
In May, 10 TV licences were cancelled including that of Sony Pictures Networks India’s subsidiary Bangla Entertainment’s non-news uplinking licence under the name Sony Tec. ZEEL’s uplinking-only non-news licence Zee TV Russia was also withdrawn.
MIB cancels 2 TV channel licences in July | TelevisionPost.com
