Unveiling radio’s resilience: Insights from The Radio Festival 2024

Unveiling radio’s resilience: Insights from The Radio Festival 2024

Welcome performance at The Radio Festival | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Radio as a medium to inform, educate and entertain has stood the test of time. It was this spirit of the timeless medium that was celebrated at the seventh edition of The Radio Festival held in the capital on February 13, World Radio Day. […]

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Prasar Bharati mulls own OTT platform

Prasar Bharati mulls own OTT platform

Prasar Bharati, for which the Centre had recently approved the Broadcast Infrastructure Network Development (BIND) scheme with an outlay of ₹2,539.61 crore, for the upgrade and expansion of broadcasting infrastructure till 2025-2026, is evaluating the possibility of coming up with an over-the-top (OTT) platform. Last year, the public broadcaster had signed a Memorandum of Understanding […]

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State governments cannot enter into broadcasting on their own: I&B Ministry

State governments cannot enter into broadcasting on their own: I&B Ministry

Those already broadcasting their content have been told to get it done through public broadcaster Prasar Bharati Those already broadcasting their content have been told to get it done through public broadcaster Prasar Bharati The Information and Broadcasting Ministry on Friday issued an advisory stating that no ministry or department of the governments at the […]

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DoT panel to study direct broadcast to smartphones

DoT panel to study direct broadcast to smartphones

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has set up a committee to study the feasibility of a spectrum band for offering broadcast services directly to users’ smartphones, a senior official said. Public service broadcaster Prasar Bharati had last year announced a collaboration with IIT Kanpur to test the feasibility of the technology, called ‘Direct-to-Mobile’ (D2M). “Band […]

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