{"id":1010908,"date":"2026-05-30T09:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010908"},"modified":"2026-05-30T09:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:05:28","slug":"delhi-hc-upholds-trais-12-minute-ad-cap-for-tv-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/30\/delhi-hc-upholds-trais-12-minute-ad-cap-for-tv-channels\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi HC upholds TRAI\u2019s 12-minute ad cap for TV channels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: In a significant judgment affecting television broadcasters across the country, the Delhi High Court has upheld the validity of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India&#8217;s (TRAI) regulations capping advertisements at 12 minutes per clock hour, observing that there is &#8220;no constitutional guarantee of profitability or unlimited monetisation of public resources.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>A Division Bench of Justice Anil Kshetrapal and Justice Amit Mahajan dismissed a batch of 17 writ petitions filed by general entertainment channels, news broadcasters and regional channels challenging Rule 7(11) of the Cable Television Networks Rules, 1994 and Regulation 3 of the Standards of Quality of Service (Duration of Advertisements in Television Channels) Regulations, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: In a significant judgment affecting television broadcasters across the country, the Delhi High Court has upheld the validity of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India&#8217;s (TRAI) regulations capping advertisements at 12 minutes per clock hour, observing that there is &#8220;no constitutional guarantee of profitability or unlimited monetisation of public resources.&#8221; A Division Bench of Justice Anil Kshetrapal and Justice Amit Mahajan dismissed a batch of 17 writ petitions filed by general entertainment channels, news broadcasters and regional channels challenging Rule 7(11) of the Cable Television Networks Rules, 1994 and Regulation 3 of the Standards of Quality of Service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010936,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010908\/revisions\/1010936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}