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The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting ( MIB) has directed 194 TV channels to provide technical equipment for monitoring of their content by the Electronic Media Monitoring Centre (EMMC).
The ministry has directed these channels to immediately provide the EMMC with one set of professional IRD for each permitted TV channel that can give SD-SDI output (and in case of HD channels, HD-SDI output) along with one spare IRD per bouquet.
Alternatively, the pay TV broadcaster/service provider has to provide viewing cards (VC) with matching CAM modules for interfacing with demodulators to decrypt and demodulate the channels over IP. The channels are also required to provide technical parameters such as satellite, frequency and location of teleport.
The abovementioned equipment must be sent to EMMC Director Ramit Lala by 31 December.
Free-to-air (FTA) TV channels whose signals are not encrypted need not provide any such equipment. However, they may immediately inform the technical parameters such as satellite, frequency and location of teleport to EMMC.
The ministry has set up EMMC as a subordinate office with the mandate to monitor the content of TV channels uplinking and downlinking in India and to check whether they are in violation of the Programming and Advertising Codes enshrined in Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Act 1995 and rules framed thereunder.
MIB directs 194 TV channels to provide equipment for content monitoring by EMMC | TelevisionPost.com
The ministry has directed these channels to immediately provide the EMMC with one set of professional IRD for each permitted TV channel that can give SD-SDI output (and in case of HD channels, HD-SDI output) along with one spare IRD per bouquet.
Alternatively, the pay TV broadcaster/service provider has to provide viewing cards (VC) with matching CAM modules for interfacing with demodulators to decrypt and demodulate the channels over IP. The channels are also required to provide technical parameters such as satellite, frequency and location of teleport.
The abovementioned equipment must be sent to EMMC Director Ramit Lala by 31 December.
Free-to-air (FTA) TV channels whose signals are not encrypted need not provide any such equipment. However, they may immediately inform the technical parameters such as satellite, frequency and location of teleport to EMMC.
The ministry has set up EMMC as a subordinate office with the mandate to monitor the content of TV channels uplinking and downlinking in India and to check whether they are in violation of the Programming and Advertising Codes enshrined in Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Act 1995 and rules framed thereunder.
MIB directs 194 TV channels to provide equipment for content monitoring by EMMC | TelevisionPost.com
