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Adult-rated foreign films may be allowed on digital platforms
Source: Business Standard
With broadcasters and the government close to working out a new content code for television, foreign movies with partial nudity and mature content may soon be allowed at all time bands on digital addressable media platforms like direct-to-home (DTH) services, conditional access system and IPTV platforms, which have the provision of a parental lock.
Currently, all foreign language films, even after adult certification from their country of origin, have to get approval from the Indian censor boards. To get the nod, they invariably have to undertake re-editing of the “objectionable” portions in the films, in accordance with the existing programme code under the cable TV law.
The existing analogue cable services may also be allowed to show adult content on television (foreign cinema to start with) but from 11 pm to 4 am only, as a broad consensus is being arrived at on the draft content code between the government and broadcasters, pending resolution for over two years.
This comes after the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) re-started discussion on the new content code with broadcasters. Government sources say at the most three to four more meetings will be required to finalise the code, that will replace the existing one, adapted from the guidelines drafted for Doordarshan decades earlier.
Sources say in the latest meeting a few days earlier between the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), the apex body of all broadcasters, and the I&B ministry, several key breakthroughs were achieved.
“Among several things, the I&B ministry has favourably responded to our draft content code on inclusion of adult content, specially in foreign cinema, on digital platforms, with facility of parental lock. This was there in the original draft code in 1994 but struck out later,” Jawahar Goel, president, IBF, told Business Standard. Though, details on how much nudity in foreign cinema are to be allowed on Indian telly screens has to be worked out with the government, he said. IBF's draft content code has also included content aired on local cable channels that are shown within cities or localities in cities without requiring uplinking or donwlinking (without involving satellites).
There are over 470 channels officially allowed to downlink in the country. Around 45 per cent are news and current affairs channels, and around 25 per cent are movie channels, both foreign and domestic. But there are over 5,000 local cable channels across the country that flout all applicable cable laws currently, as they are not monitored by the authorities. IBF has assured the I&B ministry of bringing these local channels in the purview of the new content code.
Goel also said that one content code for all existing and new media platforms like IPTV, HITS, mobile TV and web hosting, among others, is also being agreed on with the government. IBF has proposed a task force of members from government and broadcasters to see that one comprehensive content code is to be made to encompass all current and future media platforms.
For news channels, the self-regulation code developed by the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) will soon be notified to cover all news channels, even though not all news broadcasters in the country are affiliated with NBA, said Goel.
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Sounds like finally something is happening after a decade of treating viewers like kids.
Source: Business Standard
With broadcasters and the government close to working out a new content code for television, foreign movies with partial nudity and mature content may soon be allowed at all time bands on digital addressable media platforms like direct-to-home (DTH) services, conditional access system and IPTV platforms, which have the provision of a parental lock.
Currently, all foreign language films, even after adult certification from their country of origin, have to get approval from the Indian censor boards. To get the nod, they invariably have to undertake re-editing of the “objectionable” portions in the films, in accordance with the existing programme code under the cable TV law.
The existing analogue cable services may also be allowed to show adult content on television (foreign cinema to start with) but from 11 pm to 4 am only, as a broad consensus is being arrived at on the draft content code between the government and broadcasters, pending resolution for over two years.
This comes after the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) re-started discussion on the new content code with broadcasters. Government sources say at the most three to four more meetings will be required to finalise the code, that will replace the existing one, adapted from the guidelines drafted for Doordarshan decades earlier.
Sources say in the latest meeting a few days earlier between the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), the apex body of all broadcasters, and the I&B ministry, several key breakthroughs were achieved.
“Among several things, the I&B ministry has favourably responded to our draft content code on inclusion of adult content, specially in foreign cinema, on digital platforms, with facility of parental lock. This was there in the original draft code in 1994 but struck out later,” Jawahar Goel, president, IBF, told Business Standard. Though, details on how much nudity in foreign cinema are to be allowed on Indian telly screens has to be worked out with the government, he said. IBF's draft content code has also included content aired on local cable channels that are shown within cities or localities in cities without requiring uplinking or donwlinking (without involving satellites).
There are over 470 channels officially allowed to downlink in the country. Around 45 per cent are news and current affairs channels, and around 25 per cent are movie channels, both foreign and domestic. But there are over 5,000 local cable channels across the country that flout all applicable cable laws currently, as they are not monitored by the authorities. IBF has assured the I&B ministry of bringing these local channels in the purview of the new content code.
Goel also said that one content code for all existing and new media platforms like IPTV, HITS, mobile TV and web hosting, among others, is also being agreed on with the government. IBF has proposed a task force of members from government and broadcasters to see that one comprehensive content code is to be made to encompass all current and future media platforms.
For news channels, the self-regulation code developed by the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) will soon be notified to cover all news channels, even though not all news broadcasters in the country are affiliated with NBA, said Goel.
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Sounds like finally something is happening after a decade of treating viewers like kids.
ajuravi007
Regulars
Adult-rated foreign films may be allowed on digital platforms
Source: Business Standard
With broadcasters and the government close to working out a new content code for television, foreign movies with partial nudity and mature content may soon be allowed at all time bands on digital addressable media platforms like direct-to-home (DTH) services, conditional access system and IPTV platforms, which have the provision of a parental lock.
Currently, all foreign language films, even after adult certification from their country of origin, have to get approval from the Indian censor boards. To get the nod, they invariably have to undertake re-editing of the “objectionable” portions in the films, in accordance with the existing programme code under the cable TV law.
The existing analogue cable services may also be allowed to show adult content on television (foreign cinema to start with) but from 11 pm to 4 am only, as a broad consensus is being arrived at on the draft content code between the government and broadcasters, pending resolution for over two years.
This comes after the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) re-started discussion on the new content code with broadcasters. Government sources say at the most three to four more meetings will be required to finalise the code, that will replace the existing one, adapted from the guidelines drafted for Doordarshan decades earlier.
Sources say in the latest meeting a few days earlier between the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), the apex body of all broadcasters, and the I&B ministry, several key breakthroughs were achieved.
“Among several things, the I&B ministry has favourably responded to our draft content code on inclusion of adult content, specially in foreign cinema, on digital platforms, with facility of parental lock. This was there in the original draft code in 1994 but struck out later,” Jawahar Goel, president, IBF, told Business Standard. Though, details on how much nudity in foreign cinema are to be allowed on Indian telly screens has to be worked out with the government, he said. IBF's draft content code has also included content aired on local cable channels that are shown within cities or localities in cities without requiring uplinking or donwlinking (without involving satellites).
There are over 470 channels officially allowed to downlink in the country. Around 45 per cent are news and current affairs channels, and around 25 per cent are movie channels, both foreign and domestic. But there are over 5,000 local cable channels across the country that flout all applicable cable laws currently, as they are not monitored by the authorities. IBF has assured the I&B ministry of bringing these local channels in the purview of the new content code.
Goel also said that one content code for all existing and new media platforms like IPTV, HITS, mobile TV and web hosting, among others, is also being agreed on with the government. IBF has proposed a task force of members from government and broadcasters to see that one comprehensive content code is to be made to encompass all current and future media platforms.
For news channels, the self-regulation code developed by the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) will soon be notified to cover all news channels, even though not all news broadcasters in the country are affiliated with NBA, said Goel.
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Sounds like finally something is happening after a decade of treating viewers like kids.
I dont think its going to change any thing...........now in english movie channel they are showing 2-3 secs of lip kiss.........when the govt allows the adult rated foreign films.....probably they will ask the content provider to show 5 - 10 secs of lip kiss..........:grin:
Source: Business Standard
With broadcasters and the government close to working out a new content code for television, foreign movies with partial nudity and mature content may soon be allowed at all time bands on digital addressable media platforms like direct-to-home (DTH) services, conditional access system and IPTV platforms, which have the provision of a parental lock.
Currently, all foreign language films, even after adult certification from their country of origin, have to get approval from the Indian censor boards. To get the nod, they invariably have to undertake re-editing of the “objectionable” portions in the films, in accordance with the existing programme code under the cable TV law.
The existing analogue cable services may also be allowed to show adult content on television (foreign cinema to start with) but from 11 pm to 4 am only, as a broad consensus is being arrived at on the draft content code between the government and broadcasters, pending resolution for over two years.
This comes after the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) re-started discussion on the new content code with broadcasters. Government sources say at the most three to four more meetings will be required to finalise the code, that will replace the existing one, adapted from the guidelines drafted for Doordarshan decades earlier.
Sources say in the latest meeting a few days earlier between the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), the apex body of all broadcasters, and the I&B ministry, several key breakthroughs were achieved.
“Among several things, the I&B ministry has favourably responded to our draft content code on inclusion of adult content, specially in foreign cinema, on digital platforms, with facility of parental lock. This was there in the original draft code in 1994 but struck out later,” Jawahar Goel, president, IBF, told Business Standard. Though, details on how much nudity in foreign cinema are to be allowed on Indian telly screens has to be worked out with the government, he said. IBF's draft content code has also included content aired on local cable channels that are shown within cities or localities in cities without requiring uplinking or donwlinking (without involving satellites).
There are over 470 channels officially allowed to downlink in the country. Around 45 per cent are news and current affairs channels, and around 25 per cent are movie channels, both foreign and domestic. But there are over 5,000 local cable channels across the country that flout all applicable cable laws currently, as they are not monitored by the authorities. IBF has assured the I&B ministry of bringing these local channels in the purview of the new content code.
Goel also said that one content code for all existing and new media platforms like IPTV, HITS, mobile TV and web hosting, among others, is also being agreed on with the government. IBF has proposed a task force of members from government and broadcasters to see that one comprehensive content code is to be made to encompass all current and future media platforms.
For news channels, the self-regulation code developed by the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) will soon be notified to cover all news channels, even though not all news broadcasters in the country are affiliated with NBA, said Goel.
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Sounds like finally something is happening after a decade of treating viewers like kids.
I dont think its going to change any thing...........now in english movie channel they are showing 2-3 secs of lip kiss.........when the govt allows the adult rated foreign films.....probably they will ask the content provider to show 5 - 10 secs of lip kiss..........:grin:
I can understand the pessimistic view but any code is an improvement over current which is beyond pathetic. was watching a romantic movie on hbo which is a PG13 movie in states but the main kissing scene in the movie was deleted making it look like nothing happened making the movie itself pointless.
NEW DELHI: The Information and Broadcasting Ministry is yet to fix a time frame for introduction of the Broadcast Services Regulation Bill in Parliament, but sources confirmed that senior officials had three round of meetings with stakeholders from different media companies.
"In accordance with the directions of Minister Ambika Soni, I&B secretary Raghu Menon has already held three meetings with the industry stakeholders to accelerate the process of the consideration of the Bill," says a source in the I&B Ministry.
Soni had told the officials to work towards a consensus so that the legislation which was placed on the Ministry’s website in 2007 can be given a final shape. She has made it clear that the Government is not in favour of any draconian steps and, thus, wants this to be done through dialogue and interaction.
Efforts to bring forward a comprehensive broadcast legislation had been going on since 1997.
Meanwhile, the Government is studying a proposal for allowing some ‘watershed hours’ for telecasting adult content on television channels. This could be late in the night or even in the wee hours of dawn, I&B sources told indiantelevision.com.
Indiantelevision.com > News Headlines > No time frame yet for introduction of Broadcast Bill in Parliament
So far have been impressed with the work Ambika soni has done. she makes all the right noises unlike Previous i&b minister sangma. who also had 100 other posts without doing anything with them.
Now the point is what adult content here means. does this mean passionate kissing allowed? You are allowed show smoking and blood? Basically PG13 material :rofl: While in west it means nudity, Violence & Gore, lots of it.
"In accordance with the directions of Minister Ambika Soni, I&B secretary Raghu Menon has already held three meetings with the industry stakeholders to accelerate the process of the consideration of the Bill," says a source in the I&B Ministry.
Soni had told the officials to work towards a consensus so that the legislation which was placed on the Ministry’s website in 2007 can be given a final shape. She has made it clear that the Government is not in favour of any draconian steps and, thus, wants this to be done through dialogue and interaction.
Efforts to bring forward a comprehensive broadcast legislation had been going on since 1997.
Meanwhile, the Government is studying a proposal for allowing some ‘watershed hours’ for telecasting adult content on television channels. This could be late in the night or even in the wee hours of dawn, I&B sources told indiantelevision.com.
Indiantelevision.com > News Headlines > No time frame yet for introduction of Broadcast Bill in Parliament
So far have been impressed with the work Ambika soni has done. she makes all the right noises unlike Previous i&b minister sangma. who also had 100 other posts without doing anything with them.
Now the point is what adult content here means. does this mean passionate kissing allowed? You are allowed show smoking and blood? Basically PG13 material :rofl: While in west it means nudity, Violence & Gore, lots of it.
arun.carvalho
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ajuravi007
Regulars
There are not showing any such stuffs in the night time off late..........
Btw how certain channels like TV5 monde have nudity allowed then?
Hi,
I am receiving the TV5monde Asie through my cable operator. However all the programs listed in the channel says News & Current Affairs. Do they still air movies worth watching? What time of the day/week they watch these movies & do they still air uncut movies?
Thanks in advance.
Hi,
I am receiving the TV5monde Asie through my cable operator. However all the programs listed in the channel says News & Current Affairs. Do they still air movies worth watching? What time of the day/week they watch these movies & do they still air uncut movies?
Thanks in advance.
