{"id":1024685,"date":"2026-07-30T07:44:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024685"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:48:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:18:02","slug":"cable-tv-body-withdraws-challenge-to-tv-ratings-policy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/cable-tv-body-withdraws-challenge-to-tv-ratings-policy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cable TV body withdraws challenge to TV ratings policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The All India Digital Cable Federation (AIDCF) has withdrawn its writ petition challenging the Centre&#8217;s Television Ratings Policy, 2026, days after the Kerala High Court passed an interim order upholding the government&#8217;s decision to exclude landing-page viewership from television audience measurement. <\/p>\n<p>In a memo filed before the Kerala High Court on July 28, the AIDCF said that due to &#8220;certain subsequent developments&#8221;, it did not wish to pursue the case and sought permission to withdraw the petition, while reserving the liberty to file a fresh writ petition on the same or similar cause of action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The All India Digital Cable Federation (AIDCF) has withdrawn its writ petition challenging the Centre&#8217;s Television Ratings Policy, 2026, days after the Kerala High Court passed an interim order upholding the government&#8217;s decision to exclude landing-page viewership from television audience measurement. In a memo filed before the Kerala High Court on July 28, the AIDCF said that due to &#8220;certain subsequent developments&#8221;, it did not wish to pursue the case and sought permission to withdraw the petition, while reserving the liberty to file a fresh writ petition on the same or similar cause of action.<\/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-1024685","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\/1024685","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=1024685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024703,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024685\/revisions\/1024703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}