The meeting was held in the presence of TRAI chairman PD Vaghela, & secretary SK Gupta with industry leaders like Jawahar Goel, Harit Nagpal, SN Sharma, Anil Malhotra and Avinash Pandey in attendance
Experts opine whether the NTO amendments meant to address market anomalies are actually jeopardizing the future of niche offerings by broadcasters
Broadcasters believe NTO 2.0 is a disruption that will destabilise the industry business. On the other hand, TRAI claims it will fix the gaps that the first one did not; consumer bills will go down
According to TRAI Secretary SK Gupta, at the time of NTO implementation, broadcasters were up in arms claiming that it will harm the industry but broadcasters and DPOs ended up profiting from it