{"id":984734,"date":"2026-01-12T08:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984734"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:23:08","slug":"govt-to-ask-manufacturers-to-pre-install-prasar-bharatis-ott-app-on-new-tvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/12\/govt-to-ask-manufacturers-to-pre-install-prasar-bharatis-ott-app-on-new-tvs\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to ask manufacturers to pre-install Prasar Bharati\u2019s OTT app on new TVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Buoyed by the growing popularity of WAVES, Prasar Bharati\u2019s over-the-top (OTT) application, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is set to write to television manufacturers, urging them to pre-install the app on smart TVs. Currently, most smart TVs come pre-loaded with major OTT apps such as Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon Prime Video. <\/p>\n<p>It comes weeks after the Ministry of Communications mandated the pre-installation of the Sanchar Saathi app on all smartphones, but later withdrew the order following pushback from phone makers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Buoyed by the growing popularity of WAVES, Prasar Bharati\u2019s over-the-top (OTT) application, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is set to write to television manufacturers, urging them to pre-install the app on smart TVs. Currently, most smart TVs come pre-loaded with major OTT apps such as Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon Prime Video. It comes weeks after the Ministry of Communications mandated the pre-installation of the Sanchar Saathi app on all smartphones, but later withdrew the order following pushback from phone makers.<\/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":[74,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984734","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=984734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}