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IBF, MSOs in talks; no common ground
NEW DELHI: The meeting between the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) and the MSOs is continuing here on various issues relating to CAS and no concrete decision has been arrived at as yet.
The MSOs , according to early information available with indiantelevision.com, have demanded a distribution margin as high as 70 per cent. Though the Sony Entertainment TV India representative is reported to have not said much, Star India’s distribution head Tony D’Silva is understood to have said that the global norm is between 50-60 per cent and that MSOs in India are demanding too high a margin.
Interestingly, tomorrow there is a meeting of the task force on conditional access systems (CAS) set up by the government scheduled for 3:30 pm and issues like these need to be sorted out before tomorrow’s meeting.
In the last task force meet, the government had requested MSOs and broadcasters to sort out various contentious issues and come back with some concrete proposals so that other things could start moving on the CAS front.
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Uma Sudhir signs off from NDTV after 27 years
The executive editor shaped NDTV’s southern reportage for nearly three decades
NEW DELHI: Senior journalist Uma Sudhir has retired from NDTV, bringing to a close a 27-year association with the network.
Sudhir served as executive editor, heading NDTV’s south India editorial operations. Over nearly three decades, she emerged as one of the most recognisable faces of on-ground reporting from the region, with sustained coverage of politics, governance and social issues across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
At NDTV, Sudhir played a central role in strengthening regional journalism within national television news. Her reporting consistently connected local developments to the national conversation, ensuring stories from the field shaped policy debates beyond studio discussions. Known for her boots-on-the-ground approach, she came to represent a generation of reporters whose authority rested on fieldwork rather than prime-time punditry.
An award-winning journalist, Sudhir is a recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award and the Chameli Devi Jain Award. Her body of work has been widely recognised for its public-interest focus, spanning elections, governance, gender issues, rural distress, environmental reporting and social justice.
