Foreign Satellite Broadcast

Foreign Satellite Broadcast

Satellite

Presently, Government of India has a policy on uplinking of TV channels. The following two major benefits have accrued from this policy:

 

(a) Outflow of foreign exchange has been curtailed since the uplinking is done from the Indian soil instead of foreign countries. 

(b) Government is able to enforce a code of conduct for the TV channels.

 

In the absence of similar policy on the uplinking of Radio channels in the country, valuable foreign exchange outflow is taking place and the Government is unable to enforce any code of conduct on Satellite radio channels.

 

In view of the above, it is recommended that Government should come out with a policy on uplinking of satellite radio channels and downlinking process, so that the forex outflow could be curtailed and a code of conduct could be enforced.