Tata Sky Removes 11 Channels From Free-To-Air List; Only 150 Channels Now Available For You

It appears like the DTH service provider, Tata Sky has been up to a lot of transformations and shifts. It has been up in news a lot since a past couple of weeks.

This time however, it doesn’t really bring much of good news with it. India’s leading DTH operator Tata Sky has removed 11 channels from its free to air (FTA) complimentary pack from 1 December. As a result, a total of 150 channels are now being offered by Tata Sky under its FTA complimentary pack.

Tata Sky Removes 11 Channels from FTA Pack

In the latest news concerning India’s leading DTH operator Tata Sky, it has come to notice that it has removed 11 channels from it free to air complimentary pack from Dec 1.

These 11 channels that belong to Hindi and  regional category would now have to be separately added by the customers in an Ala-Carte manner. The 11 channels are – V6 News, Bflix Movies, MBC TV, Hindi Khabar, Naxatra News, Sai TV, Paras TV, I News, MKN, Sadhna News and Prameya News 7.

Due to this, the count of channels provided by Tata Sky under its FTA complimentary pack, has come down to 150. These channels were part of the pack under a promotional offer which is being discontinued. Hence the same channels are dropped from the FTA complimentary pack.

Tata Sky though has also decided to throw-in a sweetener by opting to convert Vissa TV and Raj Musix Kannada into a FTA offering.

Tata Sky Stops Long Term Channel Packs for New Subscribers

Along with the above news, we had always informed you some days back that Tata Sky will no longer be providing its long term channel packs, like the six-month channel pack or the annual channel pack to the new subscribers, in order to save on subscription costs.

Luckily, Malyalam and Marathi channels are the only two regional language channel packs which will be available for semi-annual or annual channel packs for the newly subscribed customers of Tata Sky.

Earlier, Tata Sky subscribers could also go for SD Kannada Super, SD Kannada Value, SD Telugu Super, SD Kerala Super, SD Tamil Super, SD Telugu Value, Tamil Super Annual, SD Kannada Super Annual, SD Telugu Super Annual, and other packs for six-month or 12-month duration. It is to be noted that these conditions will not impact the existing Tata Sky subscribers who have already subscribed to a long term pack.