New Delhi,:  The Supreme Court has adjourned till January 31 the hearing of an appeal by some private broadcasters on a TDSAT order on multi-broadcaster bouquets.

The apex court was hearing a petition filed by MTV seeking to quash a TDSAT order that had disallowed multi-broadcaster bouquets under Interconnection Regulations.

"All major players offer multi-broadcaster bouquets and if the concept is held unlawful then the very basis of the functioning of the industry will break down," the MTV petition said.

TDSAT had earlier also asked MTV to enter into negotiations with Zee-promoted ASC Enterprises, the owner of DTH platform Dish TV, for supply of signals by it and Nickelodeon on reasonable terms for offering channels.

MTV alleged that TDSAT did not take into account the universal practice of multi-broadcaster bouquets. There was a need to have a firm pricing formula, it added.

TRAI in its order dated October 1, 2004, had also recognised the concept, it argued.

Earlier, ASC Enterprises in its petition before TDSAT had alleged that MTV was giving its channels only as part of a bouquet of 11 channels of different broadcasters, jointly distributed by SET Discovery, and bundling of channels amounted to restrictive trade practices.

Star India Pvt Ltd's petition challenging the TDSAT order is also pending before the apex court.