{"id":840240,"date":"2024-08-02T10:14:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T04:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=840240"},"modified":"2024-08-02T10:29:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T04:59:27","slug":"tata-play-switches-off-sony-channels-in-streamlining-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/02\/tata-play-switches-off-sony-channels-in-streamlining-measure\/","title":{"rendered":"Tata Play switches off Sony channels in streamlining measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Direct-to-home (DTH) operator Tata Play has begun removing TV channels of Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI) from the subscription plans of about 10 million users in a phased manner as part of a streamlining measure, which the broadcaster has described as \u201carbitrary\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>While streamlining channel packs is not an unusual practice in broadcasting and distribution, this is the first time, said experts, that a large network such as Sony was at the receiving end of it. Smaller broadcasters and niche TV channels are often evicted from DTH and cable platforms as part of a churning exercise based on viewership, media experts said, aimed at managing the long tail of channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Direct-to-home (DTH) operator Tata Play has begun removing TV channels of Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI) from the subscription plans of about 10 million users in a phased manner as part of a streamlining measure, which the broadcaster has described as \u201carbitrary\u201d. While streamlining channel packs is not an unusual practice in broadcasting and distribution, this is the first time, said experts, that a large network such as Sony was at the receiving end of it. Smaller broadcasters and niche TV channels are often evicted from DTH and cable platforms as part of a churning exercise based on viewership, media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}