Breaking their own news

BY ac| IN Media Watch Briefs | 22/11/2014

Some of the employees of the Hindi news channel P7 News, which is owned by Pearls Broadcasting Corporation Ltd and is based out of Noida sector 57, went on a strike yesterday, demanding salary for the previous few months. In the evening the channel even broadcast a “breaking news”: “salary vivaad ke chalte P7 News band (P7 News shut due to salary-related issues)”. The employees, according to a Hindi media watch site, have alleged that the director Kesar Singh has been planning to shut the channel and abscond.

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