NIZAMABAD: Channels are now tuning into the T band. After students, lawyers, government employees and others, it is the turn of the Telangana Multi-System Operators (MSOs) to wage a stir for the cause of separate Telangana by blocking Telugu news chancels owned by Andhra and Rayalaseema industrialists.
Cable operators belonging to the region expressed their solidarity with the ongoing movement by deciding to stop the screening of the channels in the region for 48 hours. This was to protest the TV channel managements' "anti-Telangana" stand and for broadcasting "anti-Telangana" reports, the operators said.
Except Raj News and HMTV, all other news channels including TV9, NTV, ETV, ABN-Andhra Jyothi, TV5, INews, Maha TV, Zee 24 and Gemini News were blacked out since Monday morning.
Telangana MSOs' association president Kuldeep Sahani, participating in a discussion on a private TV channel, alleged that news channels owned by influential people of Seemandhra region were projecting the T-movement by giving it a negative slant and highlighting united Andhra concept. "These channels are least bothered about the struggle for the cause of separate state," he said.
A leader of the association alleged that the channels did not show a single visual of police ransacking the Osmania University hostels and attacking students with tear gas shells and rubber bullets on the pretext of following NBA (National Broadcasters Association) guidelines. "But the same channels were repeatedly showing the clippings of the attack on Lok Satta Party chief N Jayaprakash Narayan on the assembly premises," he charged.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Cable operators belonging to the region expressed their solidarity with the ongoing movement by deciding to stop the screening of the channels in the region for 48 hours. This was to protest the TV channel managements' "anti-Telangana" stand and for broadcasting "anti-Telangana" reports, the operators said.
Except Raj News and HMTV, all other news channels including TV9, NTV, ETV, ABN-Andhra Jyothi, TV5, INews, Maha TV, Zee 24 and Gemini News were blacked out since Monday morning.
Telangana MSOs' association president Kuldeep Sahani, participating in a discussion on a private TV channel, alleged that news channels owned by influential people of Seemandhra region were projecting the T-movement by giving it a negative slant and highlighting united Andhra concept. "These channels are least bothered about the struggle for the cause of separate state," he said.
A leader of the association alleged that the channels did not show a single visual of police ransacking the Osmania University hostels and attacking students with tear gas shells and rubber bullets on the pretext of following NBA (National Broadcasters Association) guidelines. "But the same channels were repeatedly showing the clippings of the attack on Lok Satta Party chief N Jayaprakash Narayan on the assembly premises," he charged.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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