Wednesday 10 December 2014

Number of Tv Channels rises by 37 in 1 year


This year saw a leap in the number of private Tv channels with their number rising from 784 in December to 821 by the beginning of this month.On November 30, there are 404 permitted news and current affairs  channels in the country and 417 non-news and current affairs channels. the Information and Broadcasting Ministry has allowed 821 TV channels in both categories to function in the country. In last year December2 ,2013 the number of permitted private satellite TV channels in India was 784r of which there were 389 news and current affairs channels and 395 non new channels . earlier there were issues related to the process of security clearance of companies that wanted to start channels ..these process has been streamlined,the number of channels has been steadily going up. According to the recent data the number of news channels had reached 400 by September 15 & the number of non news channels had touched 413 by this time .

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