| The Cable Television
Networks Rules, 1994 |
The Cable Television Networks Rules,
1994 |
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The National Security Act,
1980
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The National Security Act, 1980 |
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Almost everybody in the country
is familiar with the cable television. It has
been spreading its wings from the initial urban
cities, right to the remote villages. There
has been a haphazard mushrooming of cable television
networks all over the country due to the availability
of signals of foreign television networks via
satellites. To check the screening of undesirable
programmes and advertisements which are screened
on these channels and to regulate the operation
of the cable television networks in the country,
so as to bring uniformity in their functioning,
the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act
was passed in both the Houses of the Parliament.
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The Cable Television Networks (Regulation)
Act |
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The Prasar
Bharati Act ,1990 was passed to provide
for the establishment of a Broadcasting Corporation
for India, to be known as Prasar Bharati. It
says that it shall be the primary duty of the
Corporation to organize and conduct public broadcasting
services to inform, educate and entertain the
public and to ensure a balanced development
of broadcasting on radio and television.
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The Prasar Bharati Act ,1990
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The Bill is to provide for an independent authority
to be known as the Broadcasting Authority of
India which is for the purpose of facilitating
and regulating broadcasting services in India.
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The Broadcasting Bill , 1997
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The Indian
Telegraph Act 1885 came into force on
1st October,1885. "Telegraph" means any appliance,
instrument, material or apparatus used or capable
of use for transmission or reception of signs,
signals, writing, images, and sounds or intelligence
of any nature by wire, visual or other electro-magnetic
emissions, Radio waves or Hertzian waves, galvanic,
electric or magnetic means. The Indian Telegraphic
Act, 1885 was an Act to amend the law relating
to Telegraphs in India.
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The Indian Telegraph Act 1885 |
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"The importance of copyright
was recognized after the invention of the printing
press which enabled the reproduction of books
in large quantity. The Indian Copyright Act
was thus passed in 1914. But, during the last
four decades, modern and advanced means of communications
like broadcasting, litho-photography, television,
etc made inroads in the Indian economy. It necessitated
the fulfillment of international obligations
in the field of Copyright. A comprehensive legislation
had to be introduced to completely revise the
Copyright law. This was achieved by the introduction
of a Copyright Bill, 1957 in the Parliament."
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The Copyright Act ... |
| "The
Union Government has taken a decision on 25th
July, 2000 to further liberalise its Uplinking
Policy and permit the Indian private companies
to set up uplinking hub/teleports for licensing/hiring
out to other broadcasters. The new policy also
permits uplinking of any television channel from
India. It also allows the Indian news agencies
to have their own uplinking facilities for purposes
of newsgathering and its further distribution." |
Guidelines for uplinking from India. |
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THE CABLE TELEVISION NETWORKS
(REGULATION) AMENDMENT BILL, 2002
A BILL
further to amend the Cable Television Networks
(Regulation) Act, 1995.
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Latest CAS amedments of the Cable
Television Act |
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The proceedings
in the Rajya Sabha regarding the passage of
THE CABLE TELEVISION NETWORKS (REGULATION) AMENDMENT
BILL 2002
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What the speakers had to say. |
