Ptv Cannot Guarantee Pm Coverage Due To Laptop Unavailability

Ptv, Pakistan's State Broadcaster, Has Suspended 17 Officials For Failing To Ensure "Proper" Coverage Of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's Visit To Lahore  On The Channel Last Week, According To A Media Report. Curiously, The Transmission Failure Was Due To The Unavailability Of An Advanced Laptop Computer To Upload The Video Footage Via File Transfer Protocol (Ftp),  

The Dawn News Report Said. The Suspended Employees, On The Other Hand, Claimed They Had Been Made Scapegoats By The Administration, Which Was Put In Place By The Previous Regime  To Save The Bigwigs. On April 24, Sharif  Visited  Kot Lakhpat Prison And Ramazan Bazaars In Lahore. However, According To The Report, Despite Prior Information, The Ptv Team Was Unable To Broadcast The Events At The Venue, Allegedly Due To The Unavailability Of A Properly Working Laptop.

A Vvip Team Of Reporters And Producers Will Be Responsible For  Coverage Of The Premiere In Accordance With Standard Procedures. The Team Is Equipped With The Latest Streaming Equipment, Including Laptops For Live Streaming And Timely Uploading Of  Footage From Each Event. The Core Team Is Based In Islamabad And Moves With The Prime Minister Across The Country And Abroad. According To Documents Available To Dawn News, When Informed Of Sharif's Visit, Ptv Lahore Center Informed 

 To The Channel's Headquarters And Its Director  About The Unavailability Of An Advanced Laptop. Previously, Ptv Lahore Had Written A Letter To The Head Office On April 18, Informing Them That They Had Rented A Laptop From A Private Provider For The Prime Minister's Visit To The City A Day Ago, As The Office Does Not Have  Its Own Decreed. ."The Prime Minister Of Pakistan Was Due To Visit Lahore...The Press Information Department Requested An Editorial Team With A Laptop Along With The News Team To Edit It In A Timely Manner And Send It To Anyone Interested Locally." Processing Center In Central Lahore, This Time We Rent A Laptop With The Processing Center And Delegating Staff From The Center, But As A Permanent Arrangement We Must Own The Same Facility At The Center," 

The Letter Reads. Sources At Ptv Said The Lahore Office Was Informed Of The Prime Minister's Visit On April 24. He Again Requested A Laptop, But The Reporter And Current Affairs Departments Of State Television In The Capital Paid No Attention And Suggested Renting One Again, Dawn News Reported.Sources Said The Manager Of The Lahore Center Was Forced To Fetch His Personal Laptop From Home And Hand It Over To The Vvip Cover Team. When The Team Tried To Ftp The Footage To The Office After The Reporting, 

They Found That Instead Of Footage From The Crime Scene, 

The Laptop Battery Was Then Reporting The Event Via The Reporter's Audio Pager. Traditionally, Ptv's Top Management Suspended Top Officials At The Top Of The Company, But This Time, People Who Had Been Fired From The Office Were Fired From The Second And Third Tiers.