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It’s not small amount for businessmen who have to make money but its peanuts for top politicians who can make a few hundred crores in one irrigation scam—enough to support the channel for years.
KPCC’s initial (indirect) investment in its news and entertainment channel Jai Hind TV, for a 51% stake was just Rs33 crore in 2007. Actually obtaining a licence for starting a TV channel in India is not that expensive. One just needs to have a net worth of Rs5 crore for up-linking of non-news and current affairs channels and down-linking of foreign channels. For up-linking of “news and current affairs” channels the required net worth is Rs20 crore for the first channel and Rs5 crore for each additional channel. While there is no official figure available as cost of starting a TV channel, according to unconfirmed sources, the cost is around Rs100 crore. The cost of operating, however, depends on the content and salaries of anchors, reporters and the cost of operating OB vans used for ‘live’ reporting, if it is a news channel.
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KPCC’s initial (indirect) investment in its news and entertainment channel Jai Hind TV, for a 51% stake was just Rs33 crore in 2007. Actually obtaining a licence for starting a TV channel in India is not that expensive. One just needs to have a net worth of Rs5 crore for up-linking of non-news and current affairs channels and down-linking of foreign channels. For up-linking of “news and current affairs” channels the required net worth is Rs20 crore for the first channel and Rs5 crore for each additional channel. While there is no official figure available as cost of starting a TV channel, according to unconfirmed sources, the cost is around Rs100 crore. The cost of operating, however, depends on the content and salaries of anchors, reporters and the cost of operating OB vans used for ‘live’ reporting, if it is a news channel.
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