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Thursday, December 4, 2014

Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar blames the past for Doordarshan’s sickness

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Posted on: 04/12/2014 12:27 AM   Chandni Mathur

MUMBAI: While the new government is out to restore Prasar Bharati to its olden glory, the public is slamming the pubcaster for the series of gaffes that have put it in the news recently. However, Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar says that the problems started a long time ago and it is the sour fruits that are being borne now. The heydays of Prasar Bharati came to their illogical end during the 1990s with the advent of satellite television. It's been on a downward swing ever since. "The problems have not started today; what you are getting now is just the sour fruit of an old tree. It took root when satellite TV was beginning a new era and Doordarshan was spending left, right and centre on terrestrial," Sircar tells TelevisionPost.com. Sircar says that the government should have woken up to the problem long time back. "Now suddenly everyone is taking note of it because there is too much cacophony happening on many news channels." 


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