Registration of TV Channel

The approval or Registration of TV Channel in India involves various registrations and approvals which include so many paper work which take too much time and costly as per services and time. The whole process has been done from

Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (“MIB”) or

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (“TRAI”) or

Wireless Planning & Coordination Authority (“WPC”)  (Wing of the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology), according to the case as it is necessary for Registration of TV Channel .

“Service of any description which is made available for users like a transmission or reception of signals, writing documents, adding images and sounds or intelligence of any nature, by using mediums like, wire, radio, visual or any other electronic means, but it does not include broadcasting services.”

Hence ‘broadcasting’ is excluded from this definition, as per MIB’s directive dated January 09, 2004; the government of India authorized the TRAI to notify the broadcasting services. This notification had been given to TRAI,  the authority to regulate broadcasting and cable services in India. The licence required for broadcasting  is given by Wireless Planning & Coordination Authority (“WPC”) .