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For those of you who’d like to get Satellite TV but don’t fancy paying monthly subscriptions, the good news is there are some interesting FTA (Free to air) TV Channels available in Sri Lanka. Some of the channels listed here such as FTV and Al Jazeera, aren’t even available via local satellite operators, yet you can watch them for free, via Asiasat 3.

To receive Asiasat 3, you need a large C band dish (6 feet or more), and a decoder. Again, as these channels are FTA channels, you don’t have to pay any monthly fee to view them.

Here’s a sampling of the free channels available on Asiasat 3:

FTV
FTV is documentary channel, however, unlike National Geographic, they don’t document the lives of wildebeest: FTV instead focuses on hot models engaging in activities such as:

pillow fights…

..talking.. (yes, some of them actually can talk)…

..FTV also helps you learn photography too…

FTV was available on domestic cable a while back until someone decided to ban it..

NOW
NZ TV channel, sports, outdoors, game reviews and other stuff that NZ people are into.

ARIRANG TV Korea
Korean TV Channel with stuff in English/Arabic (?), subtitled in Arabic/English

(Do those kids look Sri Lankan? Yes they are: it’s a Korean documentary about Sri Lanka.)

CNAI (Channel News Asia)
News and a few documentaries

Bloomberg
Stocks, business news, etc..

Al Jazeera
News, views, documentaries, and more: Like BBC, just better

Actually, Al Jazeera is a brilliant TV channel. They are significantly better than BBC or CNN, in that they actually cover stories of interest, without the usual slanted view the first world employs when talking about third world countries. They also have a channel on Youtube, where you can find interesting stuff like this.

XING Kong
Hong Kong TV Channel with english movies (Chinese subtitles, english audio), and odd reality shows like this:

They do occationally show popular Hollywood movies.

TV5
French TV channel which occationally has french movies subtitled in English

DW-TV
German TV channel with excellent news, documentaries, etc (English/German content)

On DW-TV, all programs are broadcast in English and German, with alternate time slots. The programming is a mix of news, and documentaries with the documentaries covering many aspects of German life, as well as international content.

VH1
Chinese VH1, has a mix of Chinese and English music videos:

Norah Jones singing the blues..

These are just a few of the 100+ free channels you can view via Asiasat. For the full list, go to:
http://www.lyngsat.com/asia3s.html

Asiasat 3 also has many Chinese channels like this one:

..apparently, when bored, girls there get together in their underwear, and start touching each other.

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