Drop "NDTV Good Times" and "Play"

Dialog TV should take immediate steps to drop channels "NDTV Good Times" and "Play" and replace them with "AXN Beyond" and "SET English Asia". These two channels are a waste of transponder space and money for Dialog TV. No one watches any of the content on "Play" neither is "NDTV Good Times" any better.

"NDTV Good Times" is a worthless Bollywoodised English Channel. Bollywood is only popular for Hindi Movies and dubbed serials in Sri Lanka and no one watches any other Bollywood content in this country. Specially the number of English Language speaking folk who watch Indianized English content (such as that shown on NDTV Good Times) is almost non existent.

"Play" is worthless in its own sense, only trailers are shown and some of them are outdated trailers too. There is absolutely nothing to watch in the channel. If Dialog TV has transponder space to sleep on then having this worthless channel is not a problem but that is a transponder space that can be put to good use.

Another channel that should be kicked off the lineup is "Prime TV". It is turning out to be a utter failure of a channel. Outdated programmes that were gathering dust in ITN's video library are telecast over this channel. Unless this channel is a source of revenue for Dialog TV (meaning ITN is paying Dialog TV for uplinking the channel) then it is not worth retaining the channel. This channel can in no way compete with the other English Language channels on Dialog TV. In fact "Prime TV" cannot compete with the content of local FTA English channels in Sri Lanka.

We hope the management of Dialog TV wake up from their deep slumber and take immediate steps to remove the above worthless channels and introduce channels such as "AXN Beyond" and "SET English Asia". For informations sake "AXN Beyond" and "SET English Asia" telecast better content than "FX" and "Fox Crime". Now do not make this an excuse to drop "FX" and "Fox Crime" after all, we only said "better content" and did not call the channels "worthless".

Please keep us updated on the latest on Dialog TV as the days progress.

Old Dialog TV packages rental to be increased

According to information being received Dialog TV is increasing the rental on old package subscribers from January 1st 2010, in what could termed as Dialog TV's way of wishing everyone a prosperous 2010.

The package rentals are as follows

• Old Rs 199/= package becomes Rs 250/= +Taxes.
• Old Rs 1375/= and Rs 1400/= package becomes Rs 1700/= + Taxes

This move is drawing criticism from various sectors of the their subscriber base. Instead of looking at alternative sources of revenue from such as advertising, ect. Dialog TV is continuing to increase package rentals and if they touch the other packages too then we can see a sales drop for Dialog TV.

Please keep us posted on the latest new of Dialog TV as the days progress.

Prime TV now on test

Prime TV is now testing on channel 75 of Dialog TV. Those who cannot receive the channel must scan for channnels once again to receive Prime TV. The channel is named as "Test".

Prime TV to launch on Dialog TV

According to a report in the newspapers yesterday, Prime TV the English Language sister channel of ITN will be launched on Dialog TV when it is launched on Nov 12th at 10am. Lack of transponder space on Dialog TV would mean that either Prime TV may be squeezed in or Siyatha TV will be removed and Prime TV will take its place.

It is highly likely that Siyatha TV will be removed as Siyatha is still indicated as test by Dialog TV and it has not been included in the lineup on the website.

Either way Prime TV will become the only 24 hr English channel to be on Dialog TV which we hope will pave the way for other English channels to hop on board Dialog TV.

Please keep us updated on the latest on Dialog TV as the days progress.