{"id":575,"date":"2007-01-18T14:38:13","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T09:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/01\/18\/govt-bans-axn-for-showing-indecent-programme\/"},"modified":"2007-01-18T14:38:13","modified_gmt":"2007-01-18T09:08:13","slug":"govt-bans-axn-for-showing-indecent-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/01\/18\/govt-bans-axn-for-showing-indecent-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt bans AXN for showing &#8216;indecent programme&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Government <\/strong>has banned foreign satellite channel &#8216;<strong>AXN<\/strong>&#8216; with immediate effect till <strong>March 15<\/strong> for showing &#8220;<em><strong>indecent content<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been decided to prohibit transmission or re-transmission of the channel up to March 15,<strong> with immediate effect<\/strong>,&#8221; Information and Broadcasting Minister <strong>P R Dasmunsi<\/strong> told reporters here.<\/p>\n<p>The channel got into the wrong books of the ministry for telecasting\u00c2\u00a0 a programme titled &#8216;<em><strong>World&#8217;s Sexiest Advertisements<\/strong><\/em>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The programme is against good taste or decency and is likely to adversely affect <strong>public morality<\/strong>,&#8221; the minister said.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said the programme was &#8220;<strong>against public morality<\/strong>&#8221; and added action was being taken under the provisions of the <strong>Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dasmunsi <\/strong>said the ban would be applicable across content delivery platforms like cable, DTH or CAS.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&#8220;<em><strong>What they have telecast is condemnable and deserves action,<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Ack :- \u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/content.msn.co.in\/News\/National\/NationalPTI_180107_1020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSN India<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government has banned foreign satellite channel &#8216;AXN&#8216; with immediate effect till March 15 for showing &#8220;indecent content&#8220;. &#8220;It has been decided to prohibit transmission or re-transmission of the channel up to March 15, with immediate effect,&#8221; Information and Broadcasting Minister P R Dasmunsi told reporters here. The channel got into the wrong books of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-india","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}