{"id":1014269,"date":"2026-06-13T08:37:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014269"},"modified":"2026-06-13T09:07:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:37:31","slug":"centre-proposes-single-regulatory-framework-for-tv-and-radio-broadcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/13\/centre-proposes-single-regulatory-framework-for-tv-and-radio-broadcasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre proposes single regulatory framework for TV and radio broadcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has proposed a single regulatory framework for television and radio broadcasting services, extending the obligation of airing programmes on \u201cthemes of national importance and social relevance\u201d from TV channels to private radio services. <\/p>\n<p>The draft Telecommunications (Television, Radio and Associated Services) Rules, 2026, made public by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Friday, state that while TV channels \u201cshall\u201d broadcast content on these themes for a minimum of 30 minutes daily between 6 am and 11 pm, radio stations will have to dedicate one hour for the same purpose every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has proposed a single regulatory framework for television and radio broadcasting services, extending the obligation of airing programmes on \u201cthemes of national importance and social relevance\u201d from TV channels to private radio services. The draft Telecommunications (Television, Radio and Associated Services) Rules, 2026, made public by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Friday, state that while TV channels \u201cshall\u201d broadcast content on these themes for a minimum of 30 minutes daily between 6 am and 11 pm, radio stations will have to dedicate one hour for the same purpose every day.<\/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":[82,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014269","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=1014269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014277,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014269\/revisions\/1014277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}