Prasar Bharati invites applications for 65th e-auction of vacant MPEG-2 slots

The process is to be tentatively held on December 19, 2022

by Team PITCH
December 16, 2022

Prasar Bharati invites applications for 65th e-auction of vacant MPEG-2 slots

The public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has invited applications for allotment of vacant MPEG-2 slots of DD Free Dish on a pro-rata basis for the period 24.12.2022 to 31.03.2023 through the 65th e- auction.

The process is to be tentatively held on December 19, 2022.

Only satellite channels licensed by the Ministry of I&B and companies holding valid permission from the MIB will be allowed to participate in the e-auction for the allocation of DD Free Dish slots. International Public Broadcasters licensed by the Ministry of I&B can also participate in e-auctions.

The e-auction will be held bucket-wise starting with the one having the highest reserve price i.e from Bucket ‘A’ and will progressively go down in the order of reserve price. The participation fee is Rs 1.50 crore.

For Bucket A, which comprises all movie (Hindi) Channels, the starting pro-rata reserve price is Rs 6.22 crore, Bucket R1 for Devotional (Spiritual/AAYUSH Channels) is Rs 5.36 crore, Bucket A+ for All GEC (Hindi) Channels is Rs 4.32 crore, Bucket B for all music (Hindi) Channels, Sports (Hindi) Channels, GEC (Bhojpuri), Movies (Bhojpuri) and Teleshopping (Hindi) channels is Rs 2.98 crore, Bucket C comprising News & Current Affairs (Hindi) Channels, News & Current Affairs (English) and News & Current Affairs (Punjabi) Channels is Rs 2.69 crore, and Bucket D for all other remaining Genre (Language) Channels is Rs 1.89 crore.