LSTV bows to DD

IN Media Watch Briefs | 27/02/2015

Is the Lok Sabha TV channel now being run by the information and broadcasting ministry? Yesterday LSTV recorded an interview with the railway minister, and the channel staff were bemused to find that the feed went out without the LSTV logo on it, even as Doordarshan telecast it with its own watermark. The LSTV anchor was taken off the interview panel too while a DD person did the programme. Asked by her staff why that had happened, the channel CEO responded that the direct feed to DD was on the orders of I & B minister Arun Jaitley and his minister of state R Rathore.

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