GOVT. TOLD TO INDIAN CHANNELS SHIFT TO INSAT/GSAT IN FUTURE

GOVT.  TOLD TO INDIAN CHANNELS SHIFT TO INSAT/GSAT IN FUTURE

"The channels, whose contracts are expiring in the near future on foreign satellites, are being informed to shift to indigenous INSAT/GSAT satellites, as the required capacity is available," Minister of state, MIB Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore told the Lok Sabha.
As per the 'Norms, Guidelines and Procedures for Implementation of the Policy Framework for Satellite Communication in India', all licensed services operating in foreign satellites are to be shifted to Indian satellite as soon as indigenous capacity is available.
Broadcasters Instructed To Shift To INSAT
He added that the Network Operations Control Centre (NOCC) has intimated that currently 586 out of 877 private licensed TV Channels downlink from Foreign Satellites.
The new law means that several thousand C-Band Dish antennae at Cable TV Headends will have to be re-aligned.
The problem would be very severe if DTH platforms are also forced to migrate in future from their existing satellites to the INSAT & GSAT satellites. In March, then I&B minister Venkaiah Naidu had informed the Lok Sabha that Indian DTH platforms currently occupy 68 transponders, which ISRO has 104 Ku Band transponders.