Sun TV Network is likely to pull out 18 channels of Reliance Big TV subscribers, from the direct-to-home service provider following Reliance’s “failure to make payments towards outstanding amounts. Earlier, the company was planning to acquire the business of Reliance Big TV and for that a due diligence exercise is going on.
Both the firms have been sharing their back-end facilities for a couple of years. After a technical glitch in INSAT 4B in 2010, Sun Direct entered into a long-term agreement with Reliance Digital to share the latter’s bandwidth in MEASAT 3.
