News Broadcasters & Digital Association

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News Broadcasters and Digital Association
AbbreviationNBDA
Formation3 July 2007
TypePrivate organisation.
President
Avinash Pandey
CEO (ABP Network)
Vice President
M. V. Shreyams Kumar
(JMD - Mathrubhumi News)
Main organ
Board of Directors
Website www.nbdanewdelhi.com
Logo of the NBDA when it was known as the News Broadcasters Association News Broadcasters Association Logo.jpg
Logo of the NBDA when it was known as the News Broadcasters Association

The News Broadcasters and Digital Association (NBDA) formerly known as the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) is a private association of different current affairs and news television broadcasters in India. [1] It was established by Indian news broadcasters on 3 July 2007. The Association was set up to deal with ethical, operational, regulatory, technical and legal issues affecting news and current affairs channels.

Contents

In August 2021, News Broadcasters Association was renamed as News Broadcasters & Digital Association after inclusion of digital media news broadcasters in the association. [2]

Membership

Membership in the association is governed by qualifying certain guidelines. Besides this, an annual subscription fee has also to be paid by the applicant/member. The association as of date has 27 members representing 70 channels.

News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority

The News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) is an independent body, set up by the News Broadcasters and Digital Association. The NBDSA was created to consider and adjudicate complaints about broadcasts. It was formerly known as the News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA) [3] [4]

Controversies

The NBDA Board Members, who are linked to various print and electronic media outlets, were accused by many of adopting double standards, as they immediately called for the closure of TRP scam case investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation in an FIR filed in Uttar Pradesh in October 2020, which could have possibly highlighted the involvement of many of the member channels role in the scam. However, many of the members had earlier given wide coverage to the TRP scam case, accusing a rival channel Republic TV of TRP fudging, when an investigation was launched into the TRP scam by the Mumbai Police accusing Republic TV. [5] [6]

Members

Its founding members of the NBDA were:

Board members of NBDA in the year 2019-20

The Office Bearersof NBDA for the year 2019-20 are:

1. Rajat Sharma – President (Chairman & Editor-in-Chief (India TV) – Independent News Service Pvt. Ltd.)

2. I. Venkat - Vice President (Director - Eenadu Television Pvt Ltd)

3. Anuradha Prasad Shukla – Honourary Treasurer (Chairperson-cum-Managing Director, BAG Network 24 Ltd)

The other Members on the NBA Board are:

4. M.K. Anand, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer – Times Network - Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd

5. M.V. Shreyams Kumar, Joint Managing Director, Mathrubhumi Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd.

6. Rahul Joshi, CEO of News and Group Editor-in-Charge - TV18 Broadcast Ltd

7. Avinash Pandey, Chief Operating Officer - ABP Network Pvt Ltd

8. Kalli Purie Bhandal, Vice-chairperson & Managing Director - TV Today Network Ltd.

9. Sonia Singh, editorial director, New Delhi Television Ltd

10. Sudhir Chaudhary, chief executive officer - Cluster 1, TV Today Network Ltd

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