21.   Ira Joshi said the bill proposed an independent regulatory authority be set up to issue licences to private broadcasters.

22.   Carlton and Granada are the two largest private terrestrial broadcasters in Britain.

23.   CNN is the first private broadcaster to be allowed on an Indian satellite.

24.   Under the bill journalists, newspaper owners and private broadcasters would have to apply for licences in order to practice or do business.

25.   Police have closed several of the private broadcasters, but most reopened from secret new locations.

26.   Police have closed down several of the private broadcasters, but most reopened from secret new locations.

27.   Radio Rhythme Bleu, a local private broadcaster, said Juppe had accepted the resignation.

28.   RTP workers have staged regular protests where they accuse the government of trying to favour private broadcasters at their expense.

29.   Private broadcasters would have to seek a government permit to produce their own news programmes.

30.   State television and four private broadcasters were not transmitting.