The concept was to allow entities to own several channels and multiplex several television, radio, and later Internet data onto each channel using digital technology.
Viacom 18 owns and operates various channels of the Viacom group for the Indian viewers, as well as manage various Viacom's consumer products in India.
Prime is a distribution service without national programming, but it owns or has affiliations with 16 regional sports channels reaching almost 40 million homes and has extensive local baseball programming.
In general, the provision prohibits a cable operator that owns popular channels from refusing to license those channels to potential rivals.
The company also owns several local channels such as TeleZüri, Radio 24, and Radio Basilisk.
TV 18 owns and operates various channels of the NBCUniversal group for the Indian viewers.
CTC Media is currently an international network owning channels in Russia, Moldova, and Kazakhstan (37.94% of shareownership)
It also owns channels in the US and Australia, serving the large Greek-speaking populations in those countries.
The members of the family owned iron mines, iron mills, paper mills, sugar mills, railroads, channels, manufacturing companies, and banks.
The new buyer was NonStop Television, who already owned several other channels such as Star!