Jun 07, 2012, 05.20 PM IST

Deadline for Cable TV digitization may get extended

Even as households across the nation, especially the ones in the four metros - Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and ...

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Even as households across the nation, especially ones in the four metros - Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai brace themselves for the impending cable TV transition (read digitization) come July 1, this year, reports about cable operators moving to the court seeking an extension to the aforementioned deadline have been cropping up. A report by The Times of India now confirms that in Chennai, stakeholders, like the government-run Arasu Cable TV Corporation and Sun TV Network's Sumangali Cable Vision are not fully ready to meet the pre-set July 1 deadline. In fact, if this report is anything to go by, then the I&B Ministry, too has hinted that chances are that they may extend the deadline, on a city-to-city basis, if need be. 


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