Cable Digitisation

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  No Extension For Third Phase Cable TV Digitisation, Says Government

  The government will not extend the cut-off date for third phase of cable TV digitisation on January 31, 2017, an official said on Friday.

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  Cut-Off Date For Phase IV Of Cable TV Digitisation Extended

  The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has decided to extend the cut-off date for Phase IV of Cable TV Digitization to 31st March, 2017.

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  Cable Digitisation on Course, Says Information & Broadcasting Ministry

  Phase III is largest addressable market with estimated analog subscriber base of about 39 million households.

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  TV Subscribers Without Set-Top Boxes Lose Cable Services

  Services of cable TV subscribers, who failed to meet the deadline of December 31 to install set-top boxes (STB) for their television units have been stopped, Maharashtra Revenue minister Eknath Khadse said on Friday.

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  Government Mulls Raising FDI Cap to 100 Percent for DTH, Cable Networks

  Increase in FDI limit will help improve the pace of digitisation of broadcasting services across India.

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  Tamil Nadu Seeks Digital Licence For State-Run Cable TV Operator

  Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam today urged Union Finance and Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley to take steps to issue the "Digital Addressable System" licence to the Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable TV Corporation without any further loss of time.

• Prakash Javadekar for India-Made Set Top Boxes in Digitisation Drive

  Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar today called upon Indian manufacturers to produce set top boxes to meet the growing demand created by the cable TV digitisation drive, and sought their suggestions to take the indigenisation process forward.

• Cable TV digitisation: TRAI moves court against cable operators

  The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has moved a Delhi court against cable operators for not providing details of subscribers of set-top boxes to multi-system operators (MSO) which is necessary to ensure accountability in digitisation of cable TV services.

• Cable TV digitisation to be over within a year: Report

  The process of full digitisation of cable TV systems in the country is expected to be over well before the end of the current fiscal given a sharp surge in the installation of set-top boxes by distributors, a report has said.

• Digitisation Phase II: Government to allow grace period of 15 days

  The government is planning to go slow in enforcing black out on TV screens as about 25 per cent of 1.6 crore households missed the April 1 deadline to switch over to digitised cable television.

• Karnataka High Court directs Centre not to switch off analog channels till April 5

  The Karnataka High Court today directed the Central government to ensure that analog channels are not switched off in the state till April 5.

• Delhi cable operators to black out TVs for 48 hours against digitisation

  Cable TV operators in New Delhi on Friday said they would observe a 48-hour blackout to protest the March 31 digitisation deadline and an "unfair" revenue-sharing model under the digital addressable system (DAS).

• Delhi achieves 100 per cent cable TV digitisation

  Every household which subscribes to cable TV in Delhi has switched to the set-top box. The national capital has now achieved 100 per cent digitisation.

• Homes in Kolkata continue to receive signals without set-top boxes

  As the digitisation deadline ending at midnight on Wednesday, many cable homes in Kolkata continued receiving signals without installing the government mandated set-top boxes (STB), apparently because of an understanding between the West Bengal government and multi-system operators (MSOs).

• Cable digitisation deadline ends, hundreds of TV screens go blank

  Television sets without set top boxes (STBs) in hundreds of households across Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata went blank as the deadline for switch over to cable TV digitisation ended this midnight.