Cheapest Asian Channel Package

Soulistic

I'm moving into a new property that is not covered by Virgin Cable (didn't think this was possible, but hey ho).

In my current property, we have the M+ Virgin TV Pack (£11.99/month) with the Asian Mela pack (£10.99/month) and paying about £23/month.

I've looked into Sky, but their offering of the Asian channels is severely limited (ie. Virgin offer 11 channels, and Sky offer 3). If I want to get the other channels, I'll most probably have to get each individual channel seperately which would end up costing me quite a bit, or go with the ViewAsia package costing about £17.99/month in addition to the cost of whatever low priced Sky package I take.

I'm happy to go with the most basic package for TV, as I'm mostly interested in getting the Asian channels.

Anyone have an idea of the best way to achieve this?

vale46_2

dont know which channels you want but theres many free on sky without a subscription not sure if any of these are ftv as i have a ftv card but i can view these channels below without a subscription

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785    PCNE Chinese
786    Bangla TV
787    mta - muslim tv
789    Zing
791   AryEnt
792    PTV Prime
793    MATV National
796   Abu TV
797    UMP Movies
801    Record TV
802    DM Digital
803    Hidayat TV
804    ARY QTV
805    Venus TV
806    ARY World
810    PTV Global
813    Islam Channel
814    Channel 'S'
815   Geo uk
816    SAB TV
817    Sahara One
818    AAJ TAK
819    Noor TV
820    Peace TV
822    Music India
823    jazeerachildren
826    IQRA TV
827    ATN Bangla UK
828    UMMAH CHNL
830    Sunrise TV
832    Glory TV
833    Brit Asia TV
834    CH NINE UK
836    Ahlebait TV
838    Madani Chnl
840    Sikh Channel
841    Peace TV Urdu
842    Ahlulbayt TV
843    UCTV
844    Channel i
845    Takbeer TV
847    Sangat
849    Aastha
851    9XM
852    NTV
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MrsJG

Vale46 has correctly given you the list of the Asian Channels on Sky. If I am correct there are a couple more, such as Star Gold/Plus

I was originally going to go with Virgin for a similar package, then realised Sky is offering all these for free.

Just to confirm they are not available on FTV only Sky.

Hope this helps with your choice.

bengalknights

Sky usually has tonnes of free asian channels, or for the basic pack you also get things like star

Soulistic

Thanks guys...

I guess we got used to having the more "premium" channels (ie. Zee, Star, Sony).

Will look into these channels as listed by Vale46.