Thursday 5 April 2018

8 Channels went off air for violations: Rathore

The minister of state (MoS) in the ministry of information and broadcasting (MIB) Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said in the Rajya Sabha on 4 April that his ministry ordered eight private TV channels to go off air in the last three years for programme and advertisement code violations.


The list included Jai Hind, NTV, Satlon News, Al Jazeera TV, Care World, News Time Assam, VTV and DY 365. He told the lawmakers that four of the eight cases happened in 2015 while 2016 and 2017 saw two cases each of channels getting banned.

Reasons:

Telugu news channel NTV – telecast a song based programme Cine Colors.

Satlon News –showed a news report about a private corporate party organised in a five-star hotel on the Pune-Mumbai highway.

Malayalam channel Jai Hind – telecast ‘A’ certified film titled ‘Hai Harithe’.

Al Jazeera TV - telecast of a news report which carried a wrong graphical map of India repeatedly.

Care World –telecast an obscene programme ‘Kya Karu Mai Ab’

VTV - the telecast of a news programme ‘Viral Truth’ which was full of violence.

All programmes and advertisements telecast on private satellite TV channels and transmitted/re-transmitted through the Cable TV network are required to adhere to the Programme Code and Advertising Code prescribed under the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995 and Cable Television Network Rules, 1994 framed thereunder.

Sourcehttp://cablequest.org/index.php/news/national-news/item/12642-8-channels-went-off-air-for-violations-rathore

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