As viewers missed SUN TV Network channels for the sixth day after the launch of the Royal Cable Vision (RCV), a body of cable TV owners appealed to the government.
MADURAI: As viewers missed SUN TV Network channels for the sixth day on Sunday after the launch of the Royal Cable Vision (RCV), backed by M K Azhagiri, son of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, a body of cable TV owners on Sunday appealed to the government to soon launch its own cable TV operations to save their business.
Tamilnadu Cable TV owners and Consumers Welfare Association President T V Ramesh said that in view of the standoff between the RCV and the SCV, owned by Maran brothers, the cable operators were losing business. Already 1,500 Direct To Home (DTH) connections had been sold in the city.
He also alleged that "ruling party men are threatening us to join the RCV. Our subscribers will not pay the money for this month as we did not give them Sun network channels."
Since the launch of the RCV here last week, SUN TV channels had been blocked and the former had accused the latter of not providing the feed to them.
The order of the TRAI asking RCV to approach Sun Network with details for obtaining its feed would only further delay the process, and "our operations would be paralysed till the dispute is resolved," he said.
Ramesh also met Janata Party President Dr.Subramanian Swamy and sought his intervention.
He told Swamy that they were being harassed by the ruling partymen and forced to join the RCV. But they could not do so in view of the public's interest in the SUN Network serials.
More than 50 per cent of the TV viewers in and around Madurai were not able to watch popular serials broadcast by the SUN NETWork as it was off the air for the sixth day on Sunday.
A tense atmosphere prevailed in the cable industry as a big chunk of the cable operators moved to the RCV from SCV.
Though the SUN Netork had asked for details of number of cable connections etc from the RCV, it need not accept the figures given by their rival, leading to further delay in RCV getting SUN Network connection, industry sources said.
The cable rivalry had also claimed the jobs of three officials of the Public relations department, who had been temporarily suspended for helping Azhagiri to hold a press meet in connection with the launch of the RCV.
The viewers were mounting pressure on head end operators subscribing to RCV to show Sun Network channels.
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