![]() To encourage the shift, Trai has proposed that cable networks be treated on par with telecom service providers and be given an income tax holiday till March 2019. This has brought to the fore the confusing cable wars - the battle for the Rs 20,000-crore subscription revenue between 60,000 local cable operators (LCOs) allied to hundreds of bigger cable networks called multi-system operators (MSOs) and the TV broadcasters and the decade-old attempt to digitise the system so that it is accountable, monitored and taxed like any other industr The Unchanging Cable World But her determination to break SCV’s cable monopoly in the state has obviously not diminished. Jayalalithaa’s last attempt to take over Sumangali in 2006 failed after the governor sent back the Cable Nationalisation Bill saying broadcasting is not a state subject. This effectively means the takeover of Kalanithi Maran-owned Sumangali Cable Vision (SCV), a near-100 per cent ground distribution monopoly aligned to the DMK and the Sun TV group. ![]() Barnala followed this up with declaring the state government’s intent to “nationalise private television operations”. ![]() One of her first announcements after being sworn in last month was the revival of the defunct state-owned Arasu Cable TV Corporation to fulfil AIADMK’s election promise of delivering cable television at just Rs 45 per month. Tamil Nadu chief minister J.Jayalalithaa has put cable television back on the boil. ![]()
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