Govt issues 23 notices to TV channels in a year

NEW DELHI: Despite both news and general entertainment channels having set up their own regulatory bodies, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry issued 23 notices to various TV channels during 2011 and January this year.

All these notices were issued for showing obscenity and violence.

Government sources denied reports that any channel had gone to Court against the notices issued.

While the matter was under consideration at various stages, warnings or advisories had been issued to the other channels and four of them (Bindass, News 9, Sahara Samay and P7) were even asked to run apology scrolls. In only MTV?s case, the channel was let off after reviewing the programme.

The notices included only four notices to news channels: News 9, Times Now, Sahara Samay, and P7.

In the general entertainment channels, four notices were issued to Bindass, two each to Sony TV and Channel ?V?, and one each to Sony Pix, Zee Trendz, MTV, TLC, People Live, FX Channel, NDTV Good Times, Star World, Fox Crime, and FTV;and Enter 10 which is the only channel to have received a notice in 2012.