PB-SHABD: Recently, the Indian public broadcaster Prasar Bharati (PB) broadcasted the PB-SHABD, which is initiated to provide daily news feeds in various formats( in audio, video, text, photographs and other formats ) to media organizations of local media outlets of India. It was announced at the National Media Centre in New Delhi, which was presided over by Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Anurag Singh Thakur. Secretary of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Shri Sanjay Jaju, congratulated the Prasar Bharati team for the pilot of PB-SHABD and the new website and app launches
PB-SHABD
PB-SHABD in details
On the occasion, the Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Anurag Singh Thakur released a press statement saying “Over the years, Prasar Bharati has cultivated an elaborate network of news gathering as well as news delivery to every corner of the country in every regional language. We now intend to share this accurate and meaningful content”. In the initial phases of its enrollment,it is free of charge for all users it will act as a single point of information for smaller news organizations that lack extensive content-gathering networks in addition to the clean feed without the Doordarshan logo, where they can curate their news feeds as per their personalized requirement. In addition to it, an app is released for them where it has many new features like Personalized news feeds, push notifications for breaking news, multimedia content integration, offline reading capability, live streaming for real-time coverage, easy social media sharing, location-based news delivery, bookmarking for saving articles and powerful search functionality.
Who is the Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting?
Anurag Singh Thakur is the Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting
