{"id":6154,"date":"2017-08-13T15:55:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T10:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pakistanpressfoundation.org\/?p=88463"},"modified":"2017-08-13T15:55:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T10:55:15","slug":"gt-road-rally-except-four-channels-all-others-including-state-run-tv-shut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/gt-road-rally-except-four-channels-all-others-including-state-run-tv-shut\/","title":{"rendered":"Gt Road Rally: Except four channels all others including state-run TV shut"},"content":{"rendered":"
LAHORE: Several cable operators on Saturday shut all news channels, including the state-run TV and showed broadcast of only four TV channels on the occasion of rally of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.<\/p>\n
When the cable operators were asked about this issue, they said that ‘you know who was getting these channels shut.’ It is pertinent to recall that the broadcast of a big channel had been interrupted for the last four or five days.<\/p>\n
The people told \u2018The News\u2019 by telephone that only four channels were showing broadcast while all other channels were closed or their broadcasts were interrupted, including state-run TV, and on this complaint the cable operators stopped receiving phone calls at their offices.<\/p>\n
While agitating the people complained that such routine had been pursued for the last two days.<\/p>\n
They said that the broadcast of TV channels were interrupted or sometime sound was closed.<\/p>\n
They said that the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority should take notice of this practice.<\/p>\n