{"id":1034080,"date":"2026-09-09T08:14:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034080"},"modified":"2026-09-09T08:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:54:23","slug":"revised-tv-radio-rules-ease-some-industry-concerns-but-leave-ott-sports-uplinking-issues-unresolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/09\/revised-tv-radio-rules-ease-some-industry-concerns-but-leave-ott-sports-uplinking-issues-unresolved\/","title":{"rendered":"Revised TV, radio rules ease some industry concerns but leave OTT, sports uplinking issues unresolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting&#8217;s revised draft rules for television, radio and associated services have addressed some industry concerns but leave unresolved questions over the treatment of over-the-top (OTT), free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) and other open-internet services, media executives said on condition of anonymity. The ministry has invited comments on the draft by October 2, with broadcasters discussing their response. <\/p>\n<p>The draft Telecommunications (Television, Radio and Associated Services) Rules, 2026, said linear programming is a fixed, time-bound sequence selected by an authorised entity. It also defines IPTV as operating over a &#8220;closed and managed network&#8221;, helping distinguish it from open-internet services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting&#8217;s revised draft rules for television, radio and associated services have addressed some industry concerns but leave unresolved questions over the treatment of over-the-top (OTT), free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) and other open-internet services, media executives said on condition of anonymity. The ministry has invited comments on the draft by October 2, with broadcasters discussing their response. The draft Telecommunications (Television, Radio and Associated Services) Rules, 2026, said linear programming is a fixed, time-bound sequence selected by an authorised entity. It also defines IPTV as operating over a &#8220;closed and managed network&#8221;, helping distinguish [&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-1034080","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\/1034080","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=1034080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034100,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034080\/revisions\/1034100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}