JioStar, one of India’s biggest media players, just got a quiet but sharp nudge from the Supreme Court: ‘Go back to Delhi High Court; and make it clear you’re not changing your case.’ Why? Because they’ve been fighting, for over a decade, against TRAI’s rules on TV pricing; rules that treat a luxury hotel paying ₹50,000/night the same as your neighbour’s one-room apartment. That’s not a typo. The same price structure applies to both. JioStar argues this makes no commercial sense; and they’re right. A hotel that charges ₹50,000 for a night can afford to pay more for a premium channel package than a middle-class family watching news over chai. But TRAI’s current rules don’t allow that distinction. And instead of tweaking their 10-year-old petitions, JioStar wants the court to see the system as it is; flawed. The Supreme Court didn’t jump into the fight. It said: clarify your stand. And that’s where things get interesting. Because if JioStar wins, it could reshape how TRAI sets TV tariffs; and how businesses, not just homes, pay for content. This isn’t drama. It’s economics. And it might change how you pay for TV; someday.