Srikrishna Committee report: Curbs on TV channels

HYDERABAD: With the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) issuing guidelines, all the private TV channels in the state stopped telecasting any footage of violence, agitations and self-immolation bids by the T-activists. Even visuals depicting protests or celebrations were barred from being aired.

Sources said in view of the sensitivity of the matter, the channels were told to adhere to the guidelines. If any archival footage is shown, it should be labelled `file' and preferably, the date and time of the event should be stated.

There were only one or two OB vans near the OU campus in the morning. "There is no question of live footage being aired by the channels. We could contain the violence to a large extent because of this," a police official said. In fact, a private channel which tried to telecast stone-pelting on OU campus around 12.30 noon was blacked out for some time.