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Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable TV Corporation Limited (ACTCL)
Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable TV Corporation Limited (ACTCL), representatives of the firm expressed confidence that it would start business from four centres – Coimbatore, Tirunelveli, Thiruvannamalai and Thanjavur, in June, 2008. However, the announcement skipped Madurai, an important centre, where Chief Minister M Karunanidhi’s son M K Azhagiri is likely to establish his Royal Cable Vision. A decision to this effect was taken at the meeting of the Advisory Committee to the ACTCL held at the Secretariat. However, members of the Federation of Cable TV Associations (FCTA) have charged that representatives of its member associations, constituting 80 per cent of the operators in the State, were not invited for the crucial meet while those belonging to the Tamil Nadu Cable TV Operators General Welfare Association, who attended the discussions, denied this. Representatives of cable TV operators reporters at the Secretariat that the ACTCL had recently called for global tenders for supply, installation, testing and commissioning of digital cable TV head-ends at four centres. The tenders will be opened March 12, 2008.
Once the tenders are finalised, works establishing MSOs will start and the services gradually extended to other parts the State, operators said. So far as Chennai is concerned, ACTCL will start its MSO once it gets the necessary permission from the Centre.
SCV Sumangali Cable Vision
Lok Sabha Member of Parliament Dayanidhi Maran lodged a complaint with the Commissioner of Police on Feb 16th 2008, stating that police had taken into custody cable television operators belonging to Sumangali Cable Vision late on Friday night “without assigning reason” in parts of South Chennai. He had come to the police headquarters giving prior information. But there was no top officials in the office when he came.
On Feb 15th, a cable operator Prakash, who runs Sai Ram Satellite System in Nandanam, had lodged a complaint with the Pondy Bazaar police station that consumers were not receiving signals because cables had been damaged. He had alleged that cable operators Muralidharan, who runs Sriram Cable Network and Kishore Kumar of Sivasakthi cable network, had damaged cables thus preventing signal reception. Mr. Prakash supplies transmission signals to Ashok Nagar, Mambalam and K.K. Nagar areas through Hathway. The accused receive transmission signals through SCV.
Based on Prakash’s complaint the Assistant Commissioner of Police had picked up Muralidharan and Kishore Kumar around 11.30 p.m. and questioned them and later let them off. The Commissioner said no one else had been detained in this regard.
Vaiko, VijayKhant and Jayalalitha surprisingly sang the tune of Dayanidhi by telling Government should not take sides.
Dayanidhi was seen sitting in Treasury benches during Budget presentation. in the Loksabha.
He also met Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and immediately it was headlines.
Earlier His newspaper carried many advertisements from AIADMK on the eve of Jayalaitha’s Birthday celebrations creating shock among DMK loyalists.
Stalin’s birthday on March 1st was more news. Kalanidhi turned up to greet Stalin and it was told that he also met Karunanidhi and a trice is in offing.
Hathway
In a Interview to a Tamil weekly web site last week, Senthilkumaran of Hathway said the following [excerpts]
Hathway Started in Chennai from 1994
· 70% share till 2000.
· SCV started in 2000. By money and political power Hathway share drops to 40%
· 2003 CAS introduced. Sun did not offer sun music, Ktv, Gemini TV etc to other operators. So many operators switched to SCV.
· Now Hathway is giving set box worth 3000 free to all TV owners.
· Hathway’s senthilumaran says that it has welfare of operators foremost. Two lakh families are in this trade.
· The set top boxes offered will provide Digital quality and stereo sound free without rentals.
· Rates fixed by government 5 Rs per pay channel.
· DTH is costlier and same quality.
· Hathway provides its cable TV services in 12 cities across the nation, namely, Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Nasik, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Vijaywada, Chandigarh and Mohali
· Mr. Rupert Murdoch’s Star TV acquired 26 per cent stake in Hathway Cable for $75 million. In 2000
· The Raheja’s are also present in Kerala cable TV industry acquiring the business from Asianet group.
· We are a very professional company with no politician in our Board. We follow professional ethics and do not indulge in unfair trade practices.
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