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Sun TV is violating TRAI regulations: Azhagiri
Two days after launching his cable network to rival his cousins here, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister's son, M K Azhagiri, has accused Maran brothers' Sun TV network of not providing the \"decoder box\", violating Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) regulations.
Talking to newspersons here, Azhagiri, who is opposed to re-entry of his cousins, former Union minister Dayanidhi Maran and brother Kalanidhi Maran, into the family-fold, said he planned to extend his Royal Cable Vision (RCV) network to cover south Tamil Nadu in the first phase.
Azhagiri, regarded as a DMK strongman in southern districts, openly opposed attempts by the Marans to meet Karunanidhi on his 85th birthday on June 3. He later launched the RCV, apparently to counter the Sun TV and Sumangali cable vision (SCV) owned by the Marans.
Azhagiri said his family had launched the RCV only to help the cable operators who had been affected by the \"exorbitant\" charges levied by the SCV for their channels. \"But the Sun network was not providing decoders despite repeated reminders from April 2008. As per TRAI regulations the Sun network should provide the decoder to us. Since they did not, we have sent a complaint to the TRAI,\" he said.
Zee TV and Star TV have provided all their 25 channels. It was only Sun network which was denying the decoder, he said.
Sun TV is violating TRAI regulations: Azhagiri - Sify.com
Two days after launching his cable network to rival his cousins here, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister's son, M K Azhagiri, has accused Maran brothers' Sun TV network of not providing the \"decoder box\", violating Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) regulations.
Talking to newspersons here, Azhagiri, who is opposed to re-entry of his cousins, former Union minister Dayanidhi Maran and brother Kalanidhi Maran, into the family-fold, said he planned to extend his Royal Cable Vision (RCV) network to cover south Tamil Nadu in the first phase.
Azhagiri, regarded as a DMK strongman in southern districts, openly opposed attempts by the Marans to meet Karunanidhi on his 85th birthday on June 3. He later launched the RCV, apparently to counter the Sun TV and Sumangali cable vision (SCV) owned by the Marans.
Azhagiri said his family had launched the RCV only to help the cable operators who had been affected by the \"exorbitant\" charges levied by the SCV for their channels. \"But the Sun network was not providing decoders despite repeated reminders from April 2008. As per TRAI regulations the Sun network should provide the decoder to us. Since they did not, we have sent a complaint to the TRAI,\" he said.
Zee TV and Star TV have provided all their 25 channels. It was only Sun network which was denying the decoder, he said.
Sun TV is violating TRAI regulations: Azhagiri - Sify.com
Azhagiri Claims Cable Operators Had Left SCV As They Were Harassed
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Chennai: Signalling a fresh battle in the war for air waves in Madurai, kinsmen M K Azhagiri and the Maran brothers on Thursday flung charges against each other.
Azhagiri, elder son of chief minister M Karunanidhi, has launched Royal Cable Vision (RCV), a cable network to rival Sumangali Cable Vision (SCV), a large and influential network run by Kalanidhi Maran of the Sun TV group.
Azhagiri claimed that cable operators had left SCV and shifted in large numbers to his own RCV because they were unable to bear SCV’s “harassment”.
At the same time, a lawyer representing RCV filed a representation before the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in New Delhi seeking a direction to the Sun network not to deny signals to RCV.
Denying the charge, SCV said in a statement later in the day that if operators had really been harassed for years, none of them would have business ties with SCV for many years. “Such a charge has never been made, not even in the last one year,” it said, in an apparent reference to the Marans falling out of Karunanidhi’s favour a year ago.
In a never-before-seen cable war, Sun TV group’s channels went off the air in many households in Madurai, a region over which Azhagiri holds sway.
Speaking to reporters in Madurai on Thursday, Azhagiri accused the Sun network of denying its channels to RCV. RCV had written twice to Sun TV group requesting that the network’s decoders should be provided to cable operators attached to RCV. However, there was no response. “If needed, we will approach the court or TRAI,” he said.
Azhagiri, who harbours a bitter enmity towards the Marans ever since a newspaper controlled by the latter published a controversial opinion poll last year in which the former’s popularity rating was pegged very low, had earlier in the month successfully prevented a possible rapprochement between Karunanidhi and his grandnephews Dayanidhi and Kalanidhi. When they came up to the chief minister’s house to greet him on his birthday, they were turned away. Azhagiri indirectly claimed credit for the snub.
In its statement, SCV wondered why Azhagiri, who had snapped all ties with Sun TV and those connected with it, was so anxious to get their signals that he was prepared to approach the courts and TRAI.
The truth was that the people, especially womenfolk, were deeply agitated that after operators went with RCV they were unable to see their favourite channels from the Sun group.
Azhagiri had earlier claimed that he had a compact disc showing purported evidence of the harassment suffered by cable operators at the hands of SCV, which, however, denied the charge.
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TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: Signalling a fresh battle in the war for air waves in Madurai, kinsmen M K Azhagiri and the Maran brothers on Thursday flung charges against each other.
Azhagiri, elder son of chief minister M Karunanidhi, has launched Royal Cable Vision (RCV), a cable network to rival Sumangali Cable Vision (SCV), a large and influential network run by Kalanidhi Maran of the Sun TV group.
Azhagiri claimed that cable operators had left SCV and shifted in large numbers to his own RCV because they were unable to bear SCV’s “harassment”.
At the same time, a lawyer representing RCV filed a representation before the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in New Delhi seeking a direction to the Sun network not to deny signals to RCV.
Denying the charge, SCV said in a statement later in the day that if operators had really been harassed for years, none of them would have business ties with SCV for many years. “Such a charge has never been made, not even in the last one year,” it said, in an apparent reference to the Marans falling out of Karunanidhi’s favour a year ago.
In a never-before-seen cable war, Sun TV group’s channels went off the air in many households in Madurai, a region over which Azhagiri holds sway.
Speaking to reporters in Madurai on Thursday, Azhagiri accused the Sun network of denying its channels to RCV. RCV had written twice to Sun TV group requesting that the network’s decoders should be provided to cable operators attached to RCV. However, there was no response. “If needed, we will approach the court or TRAI,” he said.
Azhagiri, who harbours a bitter enmity towards the Marans ever since a newspaper controlled by the latter published a controversial opinion poll last year in which the former’s popularity rating was pegged very low, had earlier in the month successfully prevented a possible rapprochement between Karunanidhi and his grandnephews Dayanidhi and Kalanidhi. When they came up to the chief minister’s house to greet him on his birthday, they were turned away. Azhagiri indirectly claimed credit for the snub.
In its statement, SCV wondered why Azhagiri, who had snapped all ties with Sun TV and those connected with it, was so anxious to get their signals that he was prepared to approach the courts and TRAI.
The truth was that the people, especially womenfolk, were deeply agitated that after operators went with RCV they were unable to see their favourite channels from the Sun group.
Azhagiri had earlier claimed that he had a compact disc showing purported evidence of the harassment suffered by cable operators at the hands of SCV, which, however, denied the charge.
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Stating that many subscribers might, in the meantime, switch over to Sun Direct, the direct-to-home service from the Sun TV network, the operators fear that they would never get those households back into their cable operation. “If they get used to the superior quality of signals through DTH, they will not come back to us,” they said.
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The Hindu : Tamil Nadu News : Sun TV off air in many households
See how the cable operator r frightened bcz of sun direct:thumbsup:..
Stating that many subscribers might, in the meantime, switch over to Sun Direct, the direct-to-home service from the Sun TV network, the operators fear that they would never get those households back into their cable operation. “If they get used to the superior quality of signals through DTH, they will not come back to us,” they said.
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The Hindu : Tamil Nadu News : Sun TV off air in many households
See how the cable operator r frightened bcz of sun direct:thumbsup:..
this thing made sundirect to give vijay & rajtv free for us i think so)sudar_valour
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@arun_roboVery much correct. If RCV does not gets this issue solved in the next few days, people would definitely switch over to Sun direct. RCV is letting common public suffer for their personal rivalry. Government interaction is a very much needed, failing which would lead to the unwanted suffering.Sudar :ashamed:
PRO, two APROs put under suspension
The Madurai district public relations officer (PRO) and two assistant public relations officers (APROs) were said to have been suspended on Friday for their presence at a press meet organised by M K Azhagiri on behalf of his newly-launched Royal Cable Vision (RCV) here on Thursday.
According to highly-placed sources in Secretariat, on instructions from Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, secretary of the Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department T S Sridhar, has signed the suspension order of PRO Saravanan and his subordinate officers, APRO (publicity) and Sali Thalapathy and APRO (I) Baskar under the Government Servants Conduct Rule for participating in the press meet.
A highly-placed source from the Madurai District Collectorate said though they had received a message about the suspension order, they had not been served with the order copy till 9.30 pm on Friday.
Operators caught in cable TV crossfire: Any move to drag Sumangali Cable Vision (SCV) to court by Royal cable vision (RCV) for refusing to share its SUN network signal with RCV is feared to drag on, consequently affecting the business of the cable operators. Many of the cable TV viewers are reportedly switching to SUN DTH so as to watch their favourite programmes on SUN.
According to cable operators, 100-150 connections were disconnected, as the subscribers had switched over to SUN DTH. An operator from S S colony said he had lost about 50 subscribers in just four days since RCV was launched.
PRO, two APROs put under suspension - Newindpress.com
The Madurai district public relations officer (PRO) and two assistant public relations officers (APROs) were said to have been suspended on Friday for their presence at a press meet organised by M K Azhagiri on behalf of his newly-launched Royal Cable Vision (RCV) here on Thursday.
According to highly-placed sources in Secretariat, on instructions from Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, secretary of the Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department T S Sridhar, has signed the suspension order of PRO Saravanan and his subordinate officers, APRO (publicity) and Sali Thalapathy and APRO (I) Baskar under the Government Servants Conduct Rule for participating in the press meet.
A highly-placed source from the Madurai District Collectorate said though they had received a message about the suspension order, they had not been served with the order copy till 9.30 pm on Friday.
Operators caught in cable TV crossfire: Any move to drag Sumangali Cable Vision (SCV) to court by Royal cable vision (RCV) for refusing to share its SUN network signal with RCV is feared to drag on, consequently affecting the business of the cable operators. Many of the cable TV viewers are reportedly switching to SUN DTH so as to watch their favourite programmes on SUN.
According to cable operators, 100-150 connections were disconnected, as the subscribers had switched over to SUN DTH. An operator from S S colony said he had lost about 50 subscribers in just four days since RCV was launched.
PRO, two APROs put under suspension - Newindpress.com
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TDSAT to hear Azhagiri petition Chennai, June 13: In a gross deviation from procedure the Telephone Dispute, Settlements and Apellate Tribunal (TDSAT) will hear the petition of Royal Cable Vision on a holiday in the midst of its vacation. The petition by RCV, floated by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunandhi’s Madurai-based son M.K. Azhagiri, would be heard by TDSAT Chairman Arunkumar on Saturday, reportedly at the behest of Union Communications Minister A. Raja. The tribunal normally does not hold hearings during its vacation, which ends only on June 28 and on holidays.
The petition seeks TDSAT to instruct Sun TV to give its satellite signals to RCV to be distributed in Madurai and other southern districts in Tamil Nadu. In his petition RCV MD Durai Dayanidhi Azhagiri, son of the DMK strongman, has argued that under the “Free Airway Policy” no broadcaster can deny access to his programmes to anyone who wants them for viewing and distribution. The Supreme Court had upheld this policy in one of its judgments stating that no broadcaster can distribute his signals selectively.Azhagiri had floated his RCV to challenge the dominance of SCV owned by Maran.
The petition seeks TDSAT to instruct Sun TV to give its satellite signals to RCV to be distributed in Madurai and other southern districts in Tamil Nadu. In his petition RCV MD Durai Dayanidhi Azhagiri, son of the DMK strongman, has argued that under the “Free Airway Policy” no broadcaster can deny access to his programmes to anyone who wants them for viewing and distribution. The Supreme Court had upheld this policy in one of its judgments stating that no broadcaster can distribute his signals selectively.Azhagiri had floated his RCV to challenge the dominance of SCV owned by Maran.