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Moudud favours pvt TV coverage of JS session

Staff Correspondent
Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Moudud Ahmed yesterday said he favours allowing private television channels in parliament but the speaker docs not want it.
T likc private satellite TV channels to do their job in parliament but the speaker docs not allow them to doso,*hesaid.
The minister was talking to newsmen after speaking as chief guest at a seminar on 'Broadcast Media Liberalisation in Bangladesh' in the capital, organised by Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI).
Moudud said more satellite TV channels are coming up, and there is no problem in allowing radio service also in the private sector. People in the rural areas usually listen to radio since it is convenient for them.
"We have to liberalise radio. I don't sec any reason why we are not doing it as early as possible. The
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sooner we do it. the better it is forus," headded.
Broadcast media is playing a very important role in motivating people to increase food production, empowering women and controlling population, hefclL
Asked whether permission for satellite TV channels are now given on political considerations. Moudud said some TV channels were also allowed to operate in the past. "Wire all of them allowed on political con-sldgratloqs?" he asked, adding.com-
Khalid Hassan, country director of AC Nielsen Bangladesh Ltd, made a presentation on Media ConsumptioninBangladesh.
He said use of radio in Bangladesh is declining but use of TV is rising as its price has come down substantially and battery-run TVs are now available in the rural breas where thereisnoelectricity. .
Gavin Anderson and Tony O'Regan, two media experts from abroad, made separate presentations focusing on broadcast media liberalisation in Africa and South East Asia respectively.
Anderson said 46 percent of the population in Bangladesh don't have access to media while 97 percent people in Sri Lanka have access to i t.
Regan said the number of radio listeners in Bangladesh Is declining because a lot of people find nothing to listen to. He regretted tills situation.
Prof SA Salam of journalism department of Dhaka University and Selim Zaman, BEI project researcher also made two presentations at the seminar.
Former ambassador Farooq Sobhan was in the chair.