Bandwidth issue?!Then why didn't they drop one of there?!DD Podhigai is very popular among Tamil speaking people and definetly has more viwers than these channels.
DD Punjabi DD Gujarati DD Chandana DD Marathi
DD Bangla DD Malayalam DD NE DD Oriya DD Kashir
DD Urdu DD Bharti
Considering channels per language, I guess
Tata Sky may be allocating some number of channels per language. Then they may be picking top 3/5 channels per language. Now where does Podhigai stand in ranks of SUN, JAYA, RAJ, VIJAY, etc.
In other language cases (like Marathi/Gujarti/Bangla/Urdu), there are only 2-3 channels including DD, so DD channels are available for these languages.
Although I am not defending decision to drop DD Tamil, and hope for TATASKY comes up with solution for more TP space sooner or efficient compression technology to accomodate channels