Analogue Transmission Continues In Vizag

Though the deadline of DAS phase II expired on March 31, 2013 transmission of analogue signal continued in some channels including news channels.

The state government had sent a request to the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to extend the deadline by a month but it was rejected. Meanwhile the Union Minister Manish Tewari said, ‘The analogue transmission was being stopped with blocking some channels. Enough time and extensions were given for conversion from analogue to digital was given.”

In Visakhapatnam, operators have provided set-top boxes for nearly 40,000 out of 5 lakh cable TV connections. Collector V. Sheshadri said, “We can’t do much in this issue. The cable operators have to provide the set-top boxes and we can only request the Central Government to extend time.”

Joint Collector Pravin Kumar held a meeting with the MSOs to provide set top boxes as quickly as possible and also regularly reviewing the progress but the MSOs expressed their helplessness as they are not in a position to face the huge task of supplying lakhs set-top boxes. They also need large investment to get the stock before they are paid back by their subscribers.

Source: http://cablequest.org/news/digitization-news/item/2087-analogue-transmission-continues-in-vizag.htmlSource: http://cablequest.org/news/digitization-news/item/2087-analogue-transmission-continues-in-vizag.html