Legacy Broadcast Media in Bharat | connecting-the-dots

National Broadcasting Policy (NBP) in 2019, trailing the first telecom policy by 25 years.
! TV and radio industries, also referred to as ‘legacy broadcast media’
& From 2020 to 2022, paying subscribers fell from 130 million to 120 million.
? TV subscriptions are expected to diminish further by five million by 2026, according to EY.
% Bharat has one of the cheapest telecom tariffs in the world
The government allowed private players to provide services via the National Telecom Policy 1994 and exercised forbearance on tariffs for mobile services in 2002.
Ten years on, the 2012 National Telecom Policy delinked spectrum from licencing, which opened more spectrum for use and gave operators the choice to provide different services—2G, broadcasting, or 3G.
The latest National Digital Communications Policy 2018 recognised the need to remove regulatory barriers that hamper investment and innovation. Print