Sticking to this thread, Malayalam regional fare had the following channels - Asianet, Asianet News, kairali, Amrita, surya(malayalam) and DD Malayalam.
Now Amrita, DD Malayalam, kairali are gone. While I am not sure as to how these channels are being charged to the service providers, DD Malayalam, must have been FTA.
However, the thing that gives you a bad taste is that Tata Sky offers you this choice when you sign up , but then drop it subsequently. Legally I suppose they must have covered themselves by a clause which says that they can drop and add any channel as they please....but then where is
the TATA integrity??:sad: