(1) Every broadcaster shall declare the genre of its channels and such genre shall be either ‘Devotional’ or ‘General Entertainment’ or ‘Infotainment’ or ‘Kids’ or ‘Movies’ or ‘Music’ or ‘News and Current Affairs’ or ‘Sports’ or ‘Miscellaneous’.
(2) It shall be mandatory for the distributor to place channels in the electronic programme guide, in such a way that the television channels of same genre, as declared by the broadcasters, are placed together consecutively and one channel shall appear at one place only:
Provided that all television channels of same language within the same genre shall appear together consecutively in the electronic programme guide:
Provided further that it shall be permissible to the distributor to place a channel under sub-genre within the genre declared for the channel by the broadcaster.
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(3) Every distributor of television channels shall assign a unique channel number for each television channel available on the distribution network.
(4) The channel number once assigned to a particular television channel shall not be altered by the distributor for a period of at least one year from the date of such assignment:
Provided that this sub-regulation shall not apply in case the channel becomes unavailable on the distribution network:
Provided further that if a broadcaster changes the genre of a channel then the channel number assigned to that particular television channel shall be changed to place such channel together with the channels of new genre in the electronic program guide.