The Pakistan government is to lift the ban on print media owners and other groups which barred them from setting up satellite channels. The lifting of the ban will help establish nearly a dozen new Pakistani-owned satellite channels.
The ban has been preventing a group of entrepreneurs with the requisite background and experience from entering this sector, which has seen a tremendous growth elsewhere in the world and in South Asia. The print media groups, more than any other, already have the necessary know-how, skill and talent that any TV and radio networks require.
The decision paves the way for some healthy competition to take place between the state-owned PTV and new private channels.