Dialog in desperation, now more time sharing channels this time Learn TV & Heritage TV

In just about a month after Dialog carried out the time sharing of God TV & EWTN on a single channel slot, they are at it again by time sharing Learn TV & Heritage TV on a single channel. This means that Learn TV will not be available 24X7 and Heritage TV will not be available 24X7.

Dialog which is lacking in transponder capacity seems to be desperate to increase channels they have decided to do it by hook or crook. Learn TV an educational channel has been touched and shared with Heritage TV. Dialog a pay television company is now behaving like a fully fledged FTA channel. 

Learn TV is a childrens educational channel and looks like education has taken a back seat to Dialog's desperate tactics.

The sad thing is that this could be the future today and maybe we can look towards more channels being time shared in the near future. So in december God & EWTN were time shared now in january Learn TV & Heritage TV were time shared, we only can wonder what february will have in store.

It looks like things are going down hill now considering the events of the last two months.

1) Star Movies Asia changes to Star Movies India and no effort is being done by Dialog to get the asian feed back again.

2) God TV time shared with EWTN instead of giving EWTN a new channel slot.

3) MGM and UTV World Movies replaced by the Zee Studio & Zee Cafe. A bad move considering the fact that existing channels were removed to add these two.

4) Heritage TV and Learn TV combined and time shared to a new channel slot.

The problem here is lack of capacity and the lack of interest shown by Dialog to increase capacity. Dialog is definitely mirroring the problems that Comet Cable had and are hoodwinking their subscribers.

English "Zee" Channels return, "MGM" & "UTV World Movies" get booted

In a not so surprising move Dialog TV have booted out MGM & UTV World Movies. The channels that were returned to the lineup are Zee Cafe & Zee Studio. With the return of these channels it is likely that Dialog will be able to secure Ten Action also but the problem is that one of the existing channels will have to be removed due to lack of capacity and the lacklustre efforts by Dialog TV to increase capacity.

Although the introduction of Zee Studio & Zee Cafe will be welcomed by many. It looks like the musical chairs are continuing and in about another one year we cannot be sure which of the present channels will remain. It is high time that Dialog secures additional transponders and actually adds more channels instead of just "replacing" older ones with newer ones and then vice versa as was the case with the Zee channels yesterday.

We hope Dialog does not remove Eurosport in favour of Ten Action because Eurosport is the only non Indian oriented sporting channel that shows a wide variety of sports not shown by the sports bigwigs from India. So as far as any more channel additions goes, it should be done after the increase of transponder capacity.

Another thing that should be added is that MGM was followed by most of the people who like to watch older movies & UTV World Movies was followed by those who watch non Hollywood movies in foreign languagesother than English in Sri Lanka and the removal of the channels will not be viewed favorably by them, the number of people who viewed these channels maybe small in number but they are still paying subscribers of Dialog and this move is totally unfair by them.

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

** Post Correction Update information : A big thank you to our fellow blogger @sonik for pointing out the error in our post. It's "MGM" & "UTV World Movies" that have been booted & not "Warner TV" as the post suggested before. Thank You @Sonik.