Indiantelevision.com: Kerala-based Asianet Cable Vision (ACV) is planning to launch its digital services in the first quarter of 2006. Kochi will be the first city in the state to offer digital cable TV.
“We are set to launch the services by March-end. We will start with Kochi and then quickly spread out across the state. The digital headend will be at Kochi. As we have an underground fibre backbone, we can cover the entire state from this centralised headend,” says Satellite Communications Ltd CEO Mahesh Kumar.
The channel has also launched an SMS-driven cable channel which has music and movie content. “It is probably the first channel in the country which will telecast songs and movies only from the SMS-led voting system. We have tied up with all the mobile operators in the state and viewers will have to use our short code number – 67675. We have a revenue-share arrangement with the telecom operators,” says Kumar.
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