E-auctions will be based on a differential pricing to be determined by the genre or language of channels, he said.
Doordarshan started its DTH service DD Direct+ in December, 2004, which was
re-named as DD Free Dish on 27th August 2013. The present capacity of DD Free
Dish is 80 SD MPEG-2 TV channels and 18 SD MPEG-4 channels apart from 40
radio channels. DD Free Dish has a reach of approximately 30 million households
which is 15 % of the total TV Households in the country.
Prasar Bharati on 07.06.2011 approved an e-auction policy for placement of private
TV channels on the then DD Direct+ Platform in compliance to the direction of the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) judgment dated 16.12.2010. Category wise reservation of slots with differential reserve price was introduced by Prasar Bharati in April 2017 for allocation of MPEG-2 slots of DD Free Dish to Private Broadcasters through e-Auction. Slots were further reserved in each category, i.e., News and Current Affairs & Non-News & Current Affairs as licensed by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
The e-auctioning of slots on DD Free Dish was arbitrarily called off in October 2017. Earlier, DD Free Dish would conduct the e-auction every couple of months to award vacant channel slots to private broadcasters. The last e-auction was held In July 2017.
Doordarshan will conduct the 38
th online e-Auction for filling up of Vacant MPEG-2 slots of DD Free Dish DTH Platform w.e.f. 11.02.2019 The policy guidelines for allotment of DD Free Dish slots are available on the website http://doordarshan.gov.in and http://prasarbharati.gov.in
The income tax department on Tuesday evening auctioned the artworks owned by the absconding diamantaire Nirav Modi, who fled the country after duping state-run lender Punjab National Bank of a whopping Rs 14,000 crore, for Rs 59.37 crore.
ReplyDeleteOf the gross proceeds, the department will get a net of Rs 54.84 crore, with the rest being the commission to the auction house Saffronart and the buyers’ premium.
This is the first time that a government department has sold artworks adopting the auction-route involving a professional art-house. The department had put up a total of 68 works for auction to recover Rs 97 crore from the scamster.
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