PTC says they have copyright over Darbar Sahib video/audio

[S1ngh]

This is just too much now..

[MokhamSingh]

PTC have now started a separate channel. It is broadcast 24/7 and free of charge. PTC SIMRAN is broadcasting just Gurbani. Some really good live telecasts too, like the live coverage of Fatehgarh Sahib Jor Mela.

There is also daily Katha of SriGurpratapSurajGranth....

[jkvlondon]

On 1/13/2020 at 7:32 AM, MokhamSingh said:

PTC have now started a separate channel. It is broadcast 24/7 and free of charge. PTC SIMRAN is broadcasting just Gurbani. Some really good live telecasts too, like the live coverage of Fatehgarh Sahib Jor Mela.

There is also daily Katha of SriGurpratapSurajGranth....

still it is antigurmat to sell or restrict Guru ji's shabad for own profit . Jugat Guru is JUgat's right not these chor uchakkay and their cronies , same way they brownnose and kowtow to bollywood stars and politicians

[S1ngh]

And SGPC pays them to broadcast live. In a sane world, PTC should be paying millions to SGPC but instead SGPC pays them in millions. Too crazy to think of such bogus contract between them.

[kcmidlands]

Isn't PTC still owned by one of the Badal's, they've had broadcast rights for years from Harmandir Sahib.

[S1ngh]

15 hours ago, kcmidlands said:

Isn't PTC still owned by one of the Badal's, they've had broadcast rights for years from Harmandir Sahib.

They all are part of it and also owns the known cable company in Punjab. 

 

Badals made Jagir Kaur SGPC chief and she signed a 15-year contract for telecasting live Gurbani from the Golden Temple on PTC channel. The SGPC could have earned ₹100 crore from giving telecast rights but Badals won’t let that happen. 

[S1ngh]

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Tuesday described the claims of ownership on telecast of Gurbani from Golden Temple by any company or an individual as an act tantamount to sacrilege. (File)

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Tuesday described the claims of ownership on telecast of Gurbani from Golden Temple by any company or an individual as an act tantamount to sacrilege.

Speaking to mediapersons in Chandigarh, senior AAP leader and Kotkapura legislator, Kultar Singh Sandhwan, said that terming the broadcast of Gurbani Kirtan from Golden Temple by PTC channel, owned by the Badal family, as their personal property possessed at a price, had deeply hurt the religious sentiments of millions of Sikhs across the world.

The MLA demanded that the Jathedar of Akal Takht should direct SGPC to initiate action against the individual or company, which was trying to monopolize the broadcast of Sarb Sanjhi Gurbani and let the ‘sangat’ enjoy the divine renderings unhindered.

“The act not only amounts to disrespect to the scared Gurbani but has also deprived the common Sikh and other Nanak Leva Sangat of listening to the divine hymns at their convenience. The apex body of the Sikh should initiate action against the politicians, SGPC office-bearers and members involved in the sacrilegious act,” he said. Sandhwan added that the management of the SGPC should be freed from the Badals and entrusted to those who could restore it to its old glory.

The comments come in the backdrop of a controversy raging in the state on whether a particular company can be given the exclusive rights to telecast the live transmission of Gurbani from the Golden Temple. The Congress has also levelled accusations that since the PTC channel is owned by the Badal family, the SGPC has given the channel undue favours by giving it sole right for transmission. The PTC Channel has refuted these allegations and has asserted that the rights have been given to their company through a valid agreement signed with the SGPC.

Speaking to mediapersons at Punjab Vidhan Sabha, suspended AAP MLA Kanwar Sandhu said that the original agreement between SGPC and a private channel, ETC, had been signed by Jagir Kaur, the then president of SGPC. Sandhu said that no tenders had been floated while awarding a 10-year contract for the telecast rights to PTC in 2012.

[S1ngh]

Here's the update

[jkvlondon]

they never paid a penny instead charged SGPC money for the privilege of hogging the broadcast of the Hukamnama .

How about creating an internet radio channel dedicated to transmitting hukamnama from all the Five Takhts  on a daily basis  controlled by international sangat ? We could then add value by translating to other international languages .

[GurjantGnostic]

34 minutes ago, jkvlondon said:

they never paid a penny instead charged SGPC money for the privilege of hogging the broadcast of the Hukamnama .

How about creating an internet radio channel dedicated to transmitting hukamnama from all the Five Takhts  on a daily basis  controlled by international sangat ? We could then add value by translating to other international languages .

There are some web radio collections like that but the stream rate and resulting audio quality are abysmal.