Pay channels likely to go off air as deadline ends

The 2,400-and-odd cable operators and nearly 6.60 lakh and odd subscribers are anticipating that the pay channels will first go off air either by April 1st midnight or from April 2nd as the deadline for digitisation of cable television transmission ended on March 31. 

For cities with a population of over 10 lakh the deadline was fixed on March 31, 2013 and Coimbatore was part of this phase. With the Centre being firm in not offering Digital Addressable System (DAS) license to Arasu Cable TV Corporation as part of its policy, time is running out for digitisation and the local cable operators are confused a lot. Pay channels will have to face the flak from the Government, if they offer their signals and services to analogue operators. 

At present, the local cable operators under the Multi-System Operator (MSO), Arasu Cable TV Corporation, have more than 40 pay channels in the bouquet of 90 channels offered at a monthly tariff of Rs. 70.

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