DStv ending MK, Bloomberg TV channels by THINUS FERREIRA source CHANNEL24
DStv adds new soap channel by THINUS FERREIRA source CHANNEL24
films, many of which are made-for-TV movies. A sister channel, True Movies 2 was launched in 2006 which focuses on movies based on real-life dramas.
“ We wanted to give our DStv Premium customers a movie channel like no other – True Movies 1 is a perfect compliment to the almost 15 movie channels available to our DStv Premium customers on DStv,” says Collins Khumalo, CEO of MultiChoice South Africa, announcing the DStv channel addition.
MultiChoice says True Movies 1 will feature weekly movie premieres, revealing royal documentaries, Hollywood films and author-based dramas.
MultiChoice also announced that the new Fox Crime channel will make its debut on 9 July on DStv channel 126.
such as Aurora, Precious Rose, My Heart Beats for Lola and Behind Closed Doors only, but will be dubbed into English for South Africa and Southern Africa on DStv, and will be dubbed into Portuguese on DStv in Mozambique and Angola.
South American telenovelas made its entry into the South African TV market two years ago when the FOX channel launched on On Digital Media’ s( ODM) TopTV platform.
FOX has since gained carriage on DStv as well. SABC2 also has a weekday South American telenovela slot which recently got extended to include an omnibus airing over weekends.
The purely telenovela Telemundo channel – soap serialised TV drama but with a limited number of episodes usually running a year or two years and capped by a definite end- is MultiChoice’ s first foray into such a specific channel in this genre since the Soap channel on DStv was tried and ended.
DStv ending MK, Bloomberg TV channels by THINUS FERREIRA source CHANNEL24
DStv adds new soap channel by THINUS FERREIRA source CHANNEL24
MultiChoice is adding Telemundo( DStv 118), South America’ s telenovela TV channel to the DStv bouquet from Monday 12 August following a carriage agreement between MultiChoice and Universal Networks International( UNI).
The telenovela channel has not previously been available outside of Latin America as a satellite pay-TV channel but will now be shown in Africa. Telemundo is a channel division under NBCUniversal International Television.
Telemundo will show Spanish language telenovelas
MultiChoice is ending two TV channels on its bouquet, namely the business channel Bloomberg Television( DStv 411) and the MK music channel( DStv 324).
Both of these channels are being discontinued in their current form as separate TV channels on the DStv pay- TV platform in South Africa, with viewers still being able to see both Bloomberg Television content and MK content.
Bloomberg Television will continue on television in the form of programming blocks on Summit TV which has been renamed Business Day TV as of today; and MK will be streamed online as it relocates to primarily inhabit a cyber presence.
Bloomberg Television will be discontinued as a separate TV channel at the end of June.
Meanwhile MK will continue as an online channel at www. mktv. co. za where it will exist as a cyber platform streaming music videos and songs. MK will also live on as an audio channel on channel 886 on the DStv audio bouquet.
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