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Posted on: 17/11/2013 09:06 PM TelevisionPost Team
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has put broadcasters who are transmitting analogue signals to multi-system operators (MSOs) and cable TV operators in Chennai on notice. The broadcast sector regulator has sent separate letters to MSOs and broadcasters asking them to implement digitisation in full spirit. In a letter to the MSOs, TRAI has stated that transmission and re-transmission of television channels in an unencrypted form has reportedly been going on in Chennai. This is in violation of the TRAI code for digital addressable system (DAS). In a separate letter to the broadcasters, TRAI has asked them why their channels are being transmitted in analogue mode by cable operators. TRAI has asked all such broadcasters to furnish comments within seven days from the issue of the letter as to how their signals are being provided to such MSOs and LCOs in analogue mode. MSM Discovery president Rajesh Kaul said that it is transmitting signals only in digital mode. He also admitted that cable operators are resorting to signal piracy. To counter piracy, MSM Discovery has set up a team to look into all such cases, Kaul pointed out. While affirming that Media Pro was providing only digital signals in full compliance of the law, the company’s COO Gurjeev Singh Kapoor said that the nodal officers appointed by the government in Chennai would have the ground information of the channels that are transmitting analogue signals. Chennai was part of the four metro cities that were to make the mandatory switch to digital cable by 31 October 2012. However, analogue and digital cables are still running simultaneously, initially due to Madras High Court’s decision to put digitisation on hold and later due to the lack of cooperation from the state government. The stiff resistance from the Tamil Nadu government headed by J Jayalalithaa to cable TV digitisation meant that the central government’s digitisation efforts came to a naught. The state government’s lack of cooperation towards implementing cable TV digitisation in Chennai was a result of the central government’s decision not to give DAS licence to Tamil Nadu government-owned MSO Arasu Cable TV Corporation. With the state government showing little interest in DAS, the cable operators are having a field day as they are running analogue cable without any fear of being pulled up by the law.
Source:TelevisionPost
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has put broadcasters who are transmitting analogue signals to multi-system operators (MSOs) and cable TV operators in Chennai on notice. The broadcast sector regulator has sent separate letters to MSOs and broadcasters asking them to implement digitisation in full spirit. In a letter to the MSOs, TRAI has stated that transmission and re-transmission of television channels in an unencrypted form has reportedly been going on in Chennai. This is in violation of the TRAI code for digital addressable system (DAS). In a separate letter to the broadcasters, TRAI has asked them why their channels are being transmitted in analogue mode by cable operators. TRAI has asked all such broadcasters to furnish comments within seven days from the issue of the letter as to how their signals are being provided to such MSOs and LCOs in analogue mode. MSM Discovery president Rajesh Kaul said that it is transmitting signals only in digital mode. He also admitted that cable operators are resorting to signal piracy. To counter piracy, MSM Discovery has set up a team to look into all such cases, Kaul pointed out. While affirming that Media Pro was providing only digital signals in full compliance of the law, the company’s COO Gurjeev Singh Kapoor said that the nodal officers appointed by the government in Chennai would have the ground information of the channels that are transmitting analogue signals. Chennai was part of the four metro cities that were to make the mandatory switch to digital cable by 31 October 2012. However, analogue and digital cables are still running simultaneously, initially due to Madras High Court’s decision to put digitisation on hold and later due to the lack of cooperation from the state government. The stiff resistance from the Tamil Nadu government headed by J Jayalalithaa to cable TV digitisation meant that the central government’s digitisation efforts came to a naught. The state government’s lack of cooperation towards implementing cable TV digitisation in Chennai was a result of the central government’s decision not to give DAS licence to Tamil Nadu government-owned MSO Arasu Cable TV Corporation. With the state government showing little interest in DAS, the cable operators are having a field day as they are running analogue cable without any fear of being pulled up by the law.
Source:TelevisionPost
