TV, radio licences revoked

IN Media Watch Briefs | 12/08/2016

On Thursday Rajyavardhan Rathore, minister of state for information and broadcasting, revealed in the Rajya Sabha that the licences of 73 television channels and 24 private FM radio stations had been cancelled by the government in recent years. The licences of TV channels such as Mohua Punjabi, Mohua Telugu, Key TV and others had been revoked “for violating the provisions of uplinking guidelines,” a Times of India report quotes the minister as saying. The 24 FM stations that were taken off the air were said to be in breach of the provisions of the grant of permission agreement (GOPA) they had signed with the government. At present there are 892 private TV channels, 42 private radio stations and 196 community radio stations in the country.

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