{"id":966860,"date":"2025-10-08T10:19:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=966860"},"modified":"2025-10-08T12:17:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:47:04","slug":"media-ceos-bat-for-light-touch-regulation-trai-defends-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/08\/media-ceos-bat-for-light-touch-regulation-trai-defends-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Media CEOs bat for light-touch regulation, TRAI defends reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media veterans at the inaugural session of the two-day FICCI Frames Summit in Mumbai on Tuesday underlined the urgency of a \u201clight-touch\u201d approach to regulation, saying the burden of compliance was stifling innovation and growth. The comments come at a time when the domestic media and entertainment sector, which is valued at Rs 2.5 lakh crore, is slated to touch Rs 3 lakh crore by 2027, growing at 7% per annum. OTT users have surpassed the 600-million-mark, even as TV homes stand at about 190 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media veterans at the inaugural session of the two-day FICCI Frames Summit in Mumbai on Tuesday underlined the urgency of a \u201clight-touch\u201d approach to regulation, saying the burden of compliance was stifling innovation and growth. The comments come at a time when the domestic media and entertainment sector, which is valued at Rs 2.5 lakh crore, is slated to touch Rs 3 lakh crore by 2027, growing at 7% per annum. OTT users have surpassed the 600-million-mark, even as TV homes stand at about 190 million.<\/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":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966860","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=966860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}