Guidelines For Uplinking And Downlinking Of Television Channels In India 2022:
The Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry issued a fresh advisory for the implementation of the Guidelines for Uplinking and Downlinking of Television Channels in India 2022.
- Uplink is a term used to describe a communication line used to send electronic messages to satellites.
- On the other hand, downlinking refers to the communication path utilised to receive the satellite’s electronic communications.
- The Union Cabinet had approved the 2022 Guidelines to ease the issue of permissions to the companies/ limited liability partnerships (LLPs) registered in India for –
- Uplinking and Downlinking of TV Channels,
- Setting up of Teleports/ Teleport Hubs,
- Use of Digital Satellite News Gathering (DSNG)/ Satellite News Gathering (SNG)/ Electronic News Gathering (ENG) systems,
- Uplinking by Indian News agencies and temporary uplinking of a live event.
- The content need not be of 30 minutes at a stretch and shall be accounted for cumulatively on a monthly basis i.e. 15 hours per month.
- The broadcasters have the liberty to modulate their content.
- The topics of national importance and social relevance embedded in the programmes broadcast by private TV channels would qualify for their obligation.
- The broadcasters would be required to submit a monthly report on the Broadcast Seva Portal on compliance.
- The broadcasters will have to keep a record of the content telecast for 90 days.
