List of important Sky Cable announcements
Cathy and I are not happy with Sky Cable, and join the many angry voices that are crying ‘FOUL!’ against the Philippine cable service provider Sky Cable. Today, Sky Cable removes many of our favorite channels, including Discovery Travel and Living and JackTV.
Here are some of the more important Sky Cable announcements that matter:
- Praise God, Crime/Suspense is still around! It replaces RPN-9 on Sky Cable Channel 14. While the news and current affairs programs will continue to air, it’s wonderful to know we still get Bones!
- ETC! and Second Ave are still alive. ETC! will air on Channel 16 (replacing SBN-21), while 2nd Avenue will air on Channel 19 (replacing RJTV 29, but that channel’s RJ’s Talk Show and Music Concert shows will continue to air on 2nd Avenue).
- Lifestyle Network is now on Channel 52. Good to know we can still watch How Clean is Your House?
- Disney Channel is now on Channel 47. (Big deal; we still don’t get Disney Playhouse.)
We paid our Sky Cable bill in full last year, expecting to receive all the channels we subscribed to at the time. Isn’t removing some of the channels that were being broadcast at the time of our subscription, including JackTV, Solar Sports, and Discovery Travel and Living, against our contract or something? Boo, Sky Cable, boo!
I wonder what Sky Cable has to say about this. This is the problem when there’s virtual monopoly. The rights of the consumer is undermined.
Dream is worse than Sky; last August they eliminated 13 channels and replaced them with NOTHING. at least Sky we only lose Jack and gain several other channels.
Who said anything about Dream? LOL
My mother subscribes to Paranaque, and she gets a ton of channels, including Playhouse Disney.
And we didn’t just lose JackTV. I’m upset that we lost Solar Sports, but my wife and I are doubly upset we lost Discovery Travel and Living. Cathy can’t get her dose of Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” and I enjoyed “LA Ink and “Miami Ink” immensely.
The beef here is this: we subscribed for a year. We don’t have the luxury of un-subscribing. Dapat naman siguro lahat ng channels na naandoon when we subscribed, should be there for the duration of our subscription. It’s only fair.