Media Pro deactivates Asianet channels in Kerala

IndianMascot

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The war between the Kerala cable operators and Media Pro Enterprise India, the distribution JV between Star Den and Zee Turner, is out in the open with the latter deactivating all its channels alleging non-payment of subscription fee.

Media Pro, which aggregates and distributes Zee, Star, NDTV and Turner bouquet of channels in India, said it has been facing severe issues from a certain group of local cable operators in the state.

A group of cable operators are creating unwarranted problems for Media Pro that has hampered the smooth telecast of channels across the state, Media Pro said.

These cable operators have not paid their subscription fee for the bouquet of channels distributed by Media Pro more than a year now, Media Pro alleged.

"Media Pro was forced to take this strong decision of deactivating all the channels after numerous reminders and notices failed to evoke any response from these operators," the company said.

Media Pro also accused the "group of operators" of spreading rumours on ground by telling the consumers that they have to pay a very high amount if they want Media Pro channels when the fact is that it is not receiving the subscription fee that is being collected on the ground.

However, in reality, these operators are catering to millions of households across the state and are paying only a miniscule amount of subscription fee collected per household to Media Pro, the company alleged.

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IndianMascot

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Yes, and not only that this seems to be another face of digitization. Earlier we don't use to get news of such blockage but now we will get news and updates from not only DTH but all popular Digital Cable too.
 

lewis

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if Local MSO refuses or stop Mediapro distributed channels den people may take DTH or Asianet Cable TV Connections or Siti Cable or Den Connections... Local MSO r also struggling to provide STB's. But Asianet Cable, Siti Digital and Den r providing STB's.. So 60% digitization may happen with this..
 

IndianMascot

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But is Siti and Den have significant footprints in Southern India ?? I hardly hear any such news of them from southern parts. Also As per the reports, issue is not from MSOs end instead some group of LCOs are overriding MSOs & broadcasters.
 

lewis

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In kerala dey r not dat much leading... In Sun TV (Surya TV) Office wen I visited I have seen Siti Digital Connection for der reception place.
 

jairaj

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siti cable is available in ernakulam.just started their service.asianet digital is popular player.they already adopted around 4 local operators in my area past 2 years ago.result high quality service with fast actions for complaints which was not available at the time of local cable operators...now people who using dth in my area are slowly moving to asianet digital.
 

nish4uever

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At my place Palakkad district (kerala) most of the places are coverd with DEN CITY cable. I am also a subscriber of DEN CITY.
 
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