Mumbai: Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has invited applications for acquisition of ready-made TV content. The applications should be submitted via the content acquisition portal of Prasar Bharati by 7 February.

The broadcaster has specified that the content must be targeted towards an audience of children and young adults up to the age of 18 in the languages specified on the portal. The applied content should not have been aired either fully or partly from any free-to-air distribution platform like DD Free Dish in the territory of India through terrestrial, cable or direct-to-home mode during the previous three calendar years.

The content should be about half hour or one hour long and for a license period of one year or three years or on a perpetual basis for multiple telecasts on multiple channels of Doordarshan and should be provided in XDCAM 4:2:2 format on a hard disk.

The applicant is required to submit a non-refundable processing fee of Rs 10,000 plus 18 per cent GST in respect of each proposal. The processing fee is not payable in respect of proposals from ministries/departments/undertakings either of central government or state government.

The content rights holder who got themselves registered at the content acquisition portal in response to the notification on 11 October 2021 issued under policy guidelines for acquisition of licensed ready-made audio-visual content need not register again.