Sharing feed with TataSky: Sun TV gets interim stay

Sun TV has secured interim stay from the Madras High Court on the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) order asking it to share its signals with the Direct-to-Home provider TataSky.

"On Thursday (April 5), we filed writ petitions before the Hon'ble High Court, Chennai, challenging the orders passed by TDSAT in the matter of TataSky. The said writ petitions were admitted and the Hon'ble High Court granted an order of interim stay," Mr Y. Anil Kumar, General Counsel, Sun TV Network Ltd, told Business Line.

Earlier on March 19, the TDSAT in an interim order asked Sun TV to provide all its 20 channels on a-la-carte basis to TataSky at 50 per cent of its declared cable tariff.

The DTH service provider had also filed a petition in the Delhi High Court but later withdrew the case after the TDSAT took up the petition.

TataSky had contested Sun TV's decision not to provide signals to the DTH operator saying that it was resulting in a loss for the company.