WILDERNESS DAYS TURNS 100

Source: The Pioneer | Sunday, 16 February 2014 | PNS

Wilderness Days made a record last Saturday when its 100th episode was telecast on Doordarshan National. For the past 100 weeks, Wilderness Days has been covering wildlife and environmental issues in India. The show is particularly popular among wildlife enthusiasts and the youth.

A work of Raheja Productions, the show is the brainchild of well-known entrepreneur and wildlife expert Navin M Raheja. Speaking on the occasion, Raheja said it was his mission to spread the message of wildlife and environmental protection in India and Wilderness Days is an offshoot of this holistic approach. Raheja Productions’ documentaries have been aired on DD, NGC and other channels. Its crew are currently shooting at wildlife locations with Tom Alter.

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Psychological series 'Mind Matters' to commence on DD Bharati in 78 episodes

Source: IndianTelevision.com 

Posted on : 15 Feb 2014 07:34 pm

NEW DELHI: Doordarshan’s cultural channel DD Bharati has commenced the telecast ofMann ki Matters (Mind Matters), a seventy-eight episode series on mental health awareness and stigma reduction which earlier had successful runs on both DD National as well as DD India.

 

The series in Hindi was made by Mind Vision Enterprises, developed by Dr Avdesh Sharma (consultant psychiatrist) and Dr Sujatha Sharma (consultant clinical psychologist) for DD National, reaching about 95 per cent television households in India. The series was beamed to about 140 countries all over the world.
 
The series consists of episodes of in-depth discussion of a particular issue with experts in the field and...................

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Celebs come together for an unique initiative 'Main Kuch Bhi Kar Sakta Hoon'

Source: The Times of India | TNN
Feb 15, 2014, 04.43PM IST

The story revolves around the inspiring journey of Dr. Sneha.

She represents the young Indian woman of today, who thrives on challenges.Emotionally torn between family and society, between professional aspirations and personal commitment, her struggles and triumphs form the core of this memorable soap opera.

It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, but it will also make you think. It is television like you'veMain Kuch Bhi Kar Sakti Hoon will go on air on DD at 7 pm every Saturday and Sunday from 8th March, 2014.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr Tripurari Sharan, Director General, Doordarshan said,....................

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Convert DD regional channels into 24-hour channels in Hindi belt: Prasar Bharati

Source: IndianTelevision.com | By indiantelevision.com Team
Posted on : 15 Feb 2014

NEW DELHI: Prasar Bharati is in favour of converting some of Doordarshan’s regional channels in the Hindi belt into round-the-clock cable and satellite channels.
 
These include Chandigarh, Dehradun, Shimla, Ranchi, Hussar, Raipur, and Jammu regional channels. At present, some of these channels are put on the terrestrial network for around four hours when DD National goes off the National Network. At such times, Delhi’s Doordarshan Kendra transmits its programmes terrestrially.

Prasar Bharati CEO Jawahar Sircar said at a meeting of the Prasar Bharati Board yesterday that an optimisation committee would study the various aspects related to carrying out of this transition. "The board has...............

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Prasar Bharati wants to phase out medium wave radio, strengthen FM

Source: RadioandMusic.com | B B Nagpal    
15 Feb 14 14:06 IST

NEW DELHI: Even as it considers putting the popular Vividh Bharati channel of All India Radio on FM Mode, Prasar Bharati is to make an in-depth review of the medium wave radio channels since it feels that a majority of listeners are presently hooked to FM.

The Prasar Bharati Board accepted a proposal by Chief Executive Officer Jawhar Sircar in its meeting yesterday evening that medium wave was a thing of the past since the present generation depended on car radios or mobiles for audio waves, which are mostly available in FM mode.

He said he proposed to the Board that medium wave channels could be........................

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I&B Ministry makes senior-level transfers of Indian Information Service Officers in media units

Source: Indian Television.com | By indiantelevision.com Team
Posted on : 14 Feb 2014 07:41 pm

NEW DELHI: As part of several senior-level transfers in the media units of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B Ministry), Indian Information Service officer of the 1993 batch R C Joshi has been transferred as Director in the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity.
 
Joshi replaces Y K Baweja who is being moved to take his position as director (Media and Communications) in the Press Information Bureau (PIB).
 
Chitra Gupta, who is currently assistant director (Media and Communications) at PIB in Guwahati, will join as assistant director in DAVP in Kolkata. Additionally, she will also hold charge of Doordarshan Kendra in Kolkata.
 
S Mathias, who is presently................

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Prasar Bharati plans scaling up five DD regional channels into

Source: Business Standard | Press Trust of India  |  New Delhi  
February 14, 2014 Last Updated at 20:55 IST

ublic Broadcaster Prasar Bharati is planning of converting five of its regional Doordarshan channels into round-the-clock cable and satellite channels.

In a meeting of Prasar Bharati board held today, a proposal to turn Doordarshan channels for Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Jammu region was discussed, sources told PTI.

Prasar Bharati CEO Jawahar Sircar said the proposal was discussed in the board meeting and....................

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Prasar Bharati wants to phase out medium wave radio, strengthen FM

Courtesy : Radiomusic.com

B B Nagpal    15 Feb 14 14:06 IST

NEW DELHI: Even as it considers putting the popular Vividh Bharati channel of All India Radio on FM Mode, Prasar Bharati is to make an in-depth review of the medium wave radio channels since it feels that a majority of listeners are presently hooked to FM.

The Prasar Bharati Board accepted a proposal by Chief Executive Officer Jawhar Sircar in its meeting yesterday evening that medium wave was a thing of the past since the present generation depended on car radios or mobiles for audio waves, which are mostly available in FM mode.

He said he proposed to the Board that medium wave channels could be run simultaneously on FM till a complete transition is completed.

Sircar told Radioandmusic.com that he had requested the Board that there should be a ‘freeze’ on the new DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) since it is linked to medium wave.

He said that he felt the FM should be strengthened, and that Doordarshan transmitter towers all over the country could be adequately used for this. In fact, he said this was already done in many of the towers.

He has also suggested launching the Vividh Bharati service – presently only available in Delhi – in all the other three metros and putting the channel on FM. (It may be recalled that a proposal to this effect was made by AIR when FM was launched but was never implemented.)

All India Radio sources told Radioandmusic.com that substantial sums had already been spent on research and on DRM, which has failed to take off so far as the DRM sets are not easily affordable. Sources said this was an issue linked with supply and demand. In fact, the Sam Pitroda Committee had also recently given its view for strengthening DRM, these sources said.

In fact, it was claimed that AIR was ahead of many countries in the work it had done on DRM, and it had already floated a tender for purchasing new equipment for DRM. Furthermore, the Planning Commission has already sanctioned huge sums of money for promoting DRM in the country, the sources said.

The Board is also in favour of monetising the excess land available around fifty radio transmitters all over the country that are not being adequately used to generate revenues for Prasar Bharati. (It is understood that the Government had earlier opposed this on the ground that this was public property and also for security reasons.) Prasar Bharati feels this land can be given out to public sector companies or banks as this will not compromise the security aspects.

Speaking at a World Radio Day function organised by the News Services Division of AIR, Sircar had said yesterday that even the Parliamentary Standing Committee had favoured monetisation of this land.

Sircar also says that stopping transmission of short wave transmissions – since listenership was poor for these channels – would result in a saving of Rs 100 to 110 crore.

However, Government sources told radioandmusic.com that this was not possible since short wave was aimed at reaching out to foreign listeners or Indians overseas, while admitting that the issue could be studied to shut down transmission wherever listenership was poor.

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Prasar Bharati plans scaling up five DD regional channels into

Press Trust of India | New Delhi


February 14, 2014 Last Updated at 20:55 IST


Courtesy: Business Statndard

Public Broadcaster Prasar Bharati is planning of converting five of its regional Doordarshan channels into round-the-clock cable and satellite channels.

In a meeting of Prasar Bharati board held today, a proposal to turn Doordarshan channels for Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Jammu region was discussed, sources told PTI.

Prasar Bharati CEO Jawahar Sircar said the proposal was discussed in the board meeting and added that a optimisation committee would study the various aspects related to carrying out of this transition.

"The board has given in-principle approval to the scaling up these channels," an official said.

These channels had been broadcasting terrestrially for four hours but according to the proposal discussed in the Prasar Bharati board meeting, turning them into the round-the- clock channels would not require much of additional resources.

Earlier Prasar Bharati had turned four Doordarshan channels from part-time to round-the-clock channels in the Hindi heartland states of Bihar, UP, MP and Rajasthan.

Officials said an idea considered at the meeting was putting the historical speeches of national leaders in Prasar Bharati's archives on the internet, which found support from members of the board.

The Above article was published in Bussiness Standard dated 14 Feb 2014

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Meet All India Radio's new Director General

Source: Asia Radio Today | 14th February, 2014

As reported last week, Fayyaz Sheheryar has taken over the charge of Director General, All India Radio – India’s national radio broadcaster.

According to a blog about public radio, he has conceived, designed and produced thousands of programmes for different regions of the country and won national as well as international acclaim.

One of his notable accomplishments was...............................

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Prasar Bharti mulling putting famous speeches online

Source: Business Standard | Press Trust of India  |  New Delhi, February 13, 2014

History buffs may be in for a treat as public broadcaster Prasar Bharati is considering putting up famous speeches by Indian leaders, like Jawaharlal Nehru's iconic freedom at midnight speech, present in its archives, online so that people can access and hear them.

"We have a lot of digitised material on the speeches of our national leaders. These are not saleable commodities, you don't sell the family's heritage. We can put them up on the net so that anyone who wants to hear the freedom at midnight speech or others is in a position to download them," Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar said today.

He said the matter could be discussed in the Prasar Bharati board meeting tomorrow.

Sircar was speaking at an event organised by All India Radio (AIR) on the.................

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