Zee Punjabi To Stop Golden Temple Broadcaste Sept/2011

[SikhWorldTv]

ZEE Punjabi to increase Shabad Gurbani output From September, ZEE Punjabi will be extending the hours it devotes to Shabad Gurbani, BizAsia.co.uk can confirm.

With ZEE Network UK's contract with Amritsar's Golden Temple Gurdwara coverage nearing to an end, the channel will be introducing a new 60-minute slot daily at 09:30 dedicated to Gurbani from New Delhi's Bangla Sahib Gurdwara.

Furthermore, the channel will also be adding an extra 30-minute Gurbani slot at 18:30 daily. This means from September, ZEE Punjabi will be broadcasting ten hours per day of Sikh religious programming as a part of its output.

ZEE Punjabi UK/Europe currently is the exclusive broadcaster of the Golden Temple, Amritsar Gurbani and has been since the channel has been available in this territory. However, with main rights holder, PTC Punjabi planning its launch in the UK later this year, the Golden Temple Gurbani will move to their channel.

http://media247.co.uk/bizasia/newsarchive/2011/08/zee_punjabi_to_3.php

[samosasingh]

Which channel in ontario has the golden temple broadcast?

[osingh]

PTC has links with Akali Dal Badal. If you watch news of PTC news channel, you will notice it is pro-Badal. They never have a news piece attacking Badal. I'm not sure if channel is owned by Badal or not. Just Badal showing the power he has.

Bani from sri Darbar Sahib should be broadcast on free channel worldwide funded by SGPC. Rights sgouldn't be given to channels that also show material that is not in line with Gurmat such as PTC and Zee Panjabi. Badal has too much power now. What can be done?

Satgur Mehar Karan

[zoltansingh]

PTC is owned by Sukhbir Badal.

[SikhWorldTv]

A bit of history.............

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/200812 ... ab1.htm#13

Zee TV urges Badal to lift blackout

Jangveer Singh

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 18 2008

Zee television today claimed it had brought the issue of blackout of its Zee Punjabi channel on December 16, after it telecast allegations against Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal, to the notice of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and expected him to take prompt action in this regard.

Talking to TNS from Delhi, Pramod Kaul, televisions' head, current affairs, said though the channel had been operating in Punjab since the past nine years, it was the first time it had faced such a situation. He said the channel felt that the government could address the issue because the channel had been blackedout after it telecast a press conference of Congress leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira who had claimed that Sukhbir Badal had acquired control over the DIGI cable operator network in the state as well as PTC channel.

Kaul said there was a need for transparency in the system as all of a sudden Zee Punjabi was 106th on the band width in Punjab which effectively meant that it could not be accessed by anyone who had a cable connection. Speaking today evening, he said it had already been 48 hours since the channel was blackedout but the government had failed to react on the issue despite a promise by the Chief Minister that he would look into it.

Meanwhile, Romila Sharma, Zee Punjabi business head, said this was not the first time that the media had been gagged in this manner. She said earlier Roop Sharma, president, cable operators federation of India, had alleged that the Badal family was behind snipping off the popular channel "Punjab Today" in 2007. She said the case had been forwarded to the then I&B minister and it was alleged that Sukhbir Badal and Parkash Singh Badal had used unethical and unlawful means to threaten cable operators in Punjab region.

Meanwhile, former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today alleged that the government had banned relay of Zee Punjabi in the state through the cable network as part of Sukhbir Badal's effort to only allow relay of programmes that were in conformity with his political doctrine and views.

In a statement here, Capt Amarinder alleged Sukhbir had taken over the cable network by coercive methods of threat, by the use of the police, and the registration of false cases against cable operators. He said PTC was the only Punjabi channel on the appropriate UHF band in Punjab giving maximum coverage in the state.

Sukhbir Badal could not be contacted for his comments despite numerous attempts.

[SikhWorldTv]

Biz Asia Industry Whispers Sep 01, 2011 03:07 PMIssue 164

With PTC Punjabi UK launch delayed, the Golden Temple Shabad Gurbani currently being aired on ZEE Punjabi will move to another existing UK broadcaster from later this month.