Industry experts call Trai recommendations impractical and driven by vested interests.

AROI pointed out that currently there are 370 private FM stations across 107 cities, out of which most are dependent on government advertising. “Since Covid-19 outbreak, jobs of over 20,000 employees are under threat,” the letter said.

TV audiences grew as the entire country came under a lockdown from March 25. Initially, news and movies were the prime genres which were driving the growth, but the introduction of classics like Ramayan by national broadcaster DD helped the general entertainment channels segment as well.

The minister told office bearers of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) on Friday that he will consult with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on changes in the tariff order and its recommendations on the rating agency BARC India.

Former information and broadcasting secretary Ravi Mittal had written to all ministries and departments last month, giving them a breakup of what they owed. The BOC has estimated the dues at ₹350 crore, of which 10 ministries account for ₹230 crore.

Permits with a five-year validity, expanded scope and easier clearance for non-news channels to cover events live, and higher preference to Indian satellites to uplink signals — these are among the new guidelines that the government has proposed for TV channels.

The cacophonous physical world has been replaced by a virtual life — streaming via cable, broadband and 4G.

Talking to a media house, Rupani said that his government would clear the pending payments owed for all government advertisements published until April if the state’s cash flows remained stable. Rupani told the media outlet that newspapers were the biggest and best source of true, accurate, and credible information.

The Association of Publishers in India has written to commerce minister Piyush Goyal seeking the inclusion of books in the list of essential goods that consumers should be allowed during the current lockdown at least via online retailing.

The very survival of small television networks and free-to-air (FTA) channels is at stake after the advertising slump due to Covid-19 pandemic delivered a crippling blow to their cashflows, and with costs mounting every day, the liquidity crunch has now begun hindering their day-to-day operations.

Neither the mahatma's murder, nor the Babri demolition was a result of madness. Astute men and women planned both, funded them, and provided logistical and ideological support

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Albouy and his team found that degradation of temporal information impaired speech recognition but not melody recognition. On the other hand, the perception of melody decreased only with spectral degradation of the song.

A huge asteroid is set to safely pass earth earth on April 29, 2020 and though the asteroid will not hit the earth excitement is building among both professional and amateur astronomers to catch a glimpse of this asteroid.

Researchers have discovered the first ancestor on the family tree that contains most modern-day animals, including humans, a finding that sheds more light on the origins and evolution of the animal kingdom.

NASA on Wednesday announced that scientists have discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star's habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water. It added that a team of transatlantic scientists using reanalyzed data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, made the discovery.

A new study conducted by geoscientists from Aarhus University and the University of California, Davis has found that the Earth's molten core may be leaking heavy isotopes of iron.

World's premier space agency NASA and SpaceX have decided to launch the first crewed flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon - a vehicle designed to take astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on May 27. The demonstration mission will carry two NASA astronauts to ISS.

The three companies, which include firms of tech billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, will share $967 million from NASA, though specific amounts each company will receive were not immediately known.

The Eta Aquarid meteors make up the debris trail of Halley’s Comet, which passes by Earth every 76 years.

The wandering pole is driven by unpredictable changes in liquid iron deep inside the Earth.

Location Circulation Collection

Call No. TP248.2 .E86 2017

Publisher Lausanne, Switzerland : Elsevier Sequoia, 1966-1988.

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