New Delhi: The News Broadcasters Association (NBA), the representative body of private television news channels, has asked the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) to intervene and take action against Arnab Goswami’s recently launched news channel Republic TV over allegedly unethical distribution practices. According to Trai, every channel has to declare its genre to the regulator and every distributor is mandated to assign a unique channel number to each TV channel. This is the first time NBA has written to Trai to take action against a channel for distribution malpractices. Currently, Republic TV is not a member of NBA but has applied for membership. “The current Trai regulation is not clear about ‘one channel, one genre’ practice, which is why a lot of TV channels resort to this practice to reach out to more audiences.

Source: Mint May 15, 2017 15:33 UTC