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Cable TV strike: Bangalore spared

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE, AUG. 17. While most other cities felt the pinch of the nationwide indefinite strike called by the All-India Cable TV Operators' Forum from Tuesday, Bangaloreans were not deprived of the telecast from the Athens Olympics or their daily dose of serials.

The Karnataka Cable TV Operators' Association earlier announced that it would not participate in the strike. "We are all for levy of a service tax and are not joining the strike,'' an association spokesperson said. The immediate problem of the association is the Sun TV network turning its Kannada channels into pay channels, and the association members took out a protest rally on Monday. According to the association, the pay channel move will force operators to hike the monthly charges, which may be resisted by subscribers. It said the channels themselves would lose their popularity as cable operators were beaming them to rural and tribal households at subsidised rates and sometimes even free. The nationwide strike is reported to have spared four new channels while blocking all other channels.

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