Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable TV Corporation (TACTV) has been granted Digital Addressable System (DAS) licence by the ministry of information and broadcasting, according to a state government release on Tuesday.
This is the first time in the country a state-run agency has been awarded a DAS licence, the release added.
According to the release, the I&B ministry issued the order granting DAS licence to the state-run TACTV on Monday.
The release said TACTV now offers a bouquet of 90-100 channels to subscribers across the state through local cable operators who have signed up with them, and that the number of subscribers grew from 4.94 lakh in 2011 to 70.52 lakh now.
The I&B issued MSO licence to TACTV in the Conditional Access System (CAS) areas of Chennai Metro. After digitisation was made mandatory across the country, TACTV Corporation applied for MSO licence for the DAS notified areas of Chennai Metro, twice in 2012.
Former chief minister J Jayalalithaa had raised the issue of DAS licence to TN with the Centre on multiple occasions.
The release said that in February this year, chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union minister for information and broadcasting M Venkaiah Naidu and discussed the issue of DAS licence to TACTV.
The release added that the CM thanked the PM and Naidu and that TACTV would now offer "world class digital cable TV services at low cost."
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