• CMM Broadcasting

    CMM Broadcasting posts slim profits for JQ 2002-3, shifts to PAS-10, reaches the UK

    Aug 02, 2002

    MUMBAI: CMM Broadcasting Network, the company that runs the CMM music channel and faith channel Aastha, has declared

  • I&B Ministry

    I&B Ministry gets CAS on Upper House Monday agenda

    Aug 02, 2002

    NEW DELHI:The information and broadcasting ministry has asked the business advisory committee of parliament to relist

  • MTV gets on US parents body watchlist

    Submitted by ITV Production on Aug 02, 2002
    News Headline

    MTV‘s cool right? The US-based Parents Television Council thinks not. It has launched a new report The Ten Best and Worst Shows on Cable Television of the 2001/2002 Season. And it has keelhauled the music broadcaster as a propogator of raunchy programming.
    Among the MTV shows that have been listed in the worst list include: The Real World, Undressed, Celebrity Deathmatch The Andy Dick Show and The Osbournes, which has recently launched in India.

    Turner Network Television‘s Witchblade were among the other shows to be fingered. The PTC believes that because parents don‘t watch MTV they have no idea of the titillation that the network resorts to keep its teen viewers glued to the screen. Hence, it is going raise a ruckus against the music network.

  • MTV gets on US parents body watchlist

    Aug 02, 2002

    MTV's cool right? The US-based Parents Television Council thinks not.

  • Vijay

    Vijay TV denies sellout to Star

    Aug 02, 2002

    UTV chairman Ronnie Screwvala denied any possibilities of Vijay TV being taken over by Star TV.

  • I&B Ministry gets CAS on Upper House Monday agenda

    Submitted by ITV Production on Aug 02, 2002
    News Headline

    NEW DELHI:The information and broadcasting ministry has asked the business advisory committee of parliament to relist the Cable TV Networks Amendment Bill 2002 next week and this is most probably going to happen on Monday in the Upper House (the Rajya Sabha).

    According to I&B ministry officials, if the RS transacts business on Monday and there are no adjournments, then the Bill, which aims at facilitating the implementation of conditional access systems (CAS), will be discussed on that day. The officials agree upon one thing: about three hours have been allotted for debate on CAS in the Upper House. Even if the Bill, which has generated lot of heat and unleashed high pitched lobbying for and against it, is to be referred to a parliamentary committee (as is being demanded by a section of the broadcasting industry), it will require consent from the Upper House where the issue will have to be taken up and a motion passed to this effect.

    Though Swaraj‘s meeting earlier this week with Opposition members of the Rajya Sabha was inconclusive, she is hopeful of pushing the amendments through in the Upper House too.

    The Lok Sabha has already okayed the amendments through a voice vote. The Congress, which is opposing the passage of the CATV Amendment Bill 2002 in the Upper House and has raised several questions, however, had not opposed the Bill when it had come up in Lok Sabha.

    According to political sources, Nilotpal Basu of the CPM, after his meeting with Swaraj, had said that the minister was not able to satisfactorily resolve some doubts raised by some Upper House members.

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