New TV channel in Guwahati soon
By our Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, June 28: It augurs well for the State that a new private TV channel
will be launched shortly from Guwahati to fill the electronic media vacuum in
the State. It may be mentioned here that currently only one private TV channel
is in the air in the entire North-east.
A number of media houses moved the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I
& B) seeking permission for launching private TV channels in the State, and of
them only Pride East Entertainment Private Limited (PEEPL) got permission. The
name of the TV channel will be News Live and it will air news in Asomiya and
English, besides entertainment programmes. The director of the new TV channel
will be Atanu Bhuyan, an Asomiya journalist.
Talking to The Sentinel, Atanu Bhuyan said: The totally non-paid TV channel is
likely to be started in October-end, and its cost has been estimated at Rs 30
crore. The board of directors of the channel comprises Atanu Bhuyan (Sujata
Apartment, Nilomoni Phukan Road, Chirstianbasti), Bhaskar Sarma (Bhubaneswari
Path, Kamakhya), Rajiv Bhuyan (Rajaduwar, North Guwahati) and Ghanashyam
Talukdar (Pub-Maligaon Railway Colony, Quarters No. 244). The office of the TV
channel will be in a six-storeyed building near Hotel Pragati Manor,
Christianbasti in the city.
Talking to The Sentinel, AGP-P president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta said: This is
indeed a good news that new TV channels are coming up in the region. The new
channel should ensure that while airing news there are no biased or concocted
stories. Instead of confining itself to the region, the new channel should
cover events of the entire world.
On the other hand, AASU general secretary Sankar Prasad Rai said: Such
channels will expose Asom to the whole of the world and the world to the whole
of the State.
NSUIs Asom unit general secretary Imdad Hussain said: The proposed new TV
channel is a welcome development, especially given the fact that some Asomiya
persons have come up with the idea.
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