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Digital Satellite Television, abbreviated DStv, is a Sub-Saharan African direct broadcast satellite service owned by MultiChoice and based in South Africa, with headquarters in Randburg. DStv provides audio, radio and television channels and services to subscribers across 50 countries, [1] [2] mostly in South Africa, Nigeria and Zimbabwe. [3 ...
Newsroom Afrika is a South African 24-hour digital satellite television news channel broadcast across Africa on DStv. [1] [2] [3] It is one of two channels on the platform that is 100% black-owned, and 50% female-owned. [4] The channel comes after MultiChoice ended their contract with the now defunct and controversial Afro Worldview. [5]
The channel was supplemented by KIX and upcoming movie channel titled Movie Room. [4] In August 2022, eExtra alongside eMovies, eMovies Extra and eToonz were reinstated on the DStv platform for another 6 months following pending investigation. [5] By the end of July 2023, the channel would eventually go dark on DStv. [6]
Soweto Community Television (Soweto TV) [1] is a South African community television channel broadcasting in the biggest township in South Africa, Soweto.The channel is free-to-air in Gauteng Province and it also broadcasts to South African subscribers on the DStv pay TV service on channel 251 and Starsat on channel 488.
African Cable Television - commenced operations on 1 December 2014; operations were discontinued a few months later; CTL; Daarsat; DStv [4] [5] - Other networks like HiTV (out of operations) and StarTimes have increased the competitiveness of the cable TV market.
The channel was launched in February 2005 with a live music special with live performances from local African and international artists, along with some music video and reality programming from MTV Europe. The network also carries the American and European awards ceremonies of MTV and BET.
eToonz is a South African digital satellite television free-to-air children's channel created and owned by eMedia Investments's e.tv. [1] The channel broadcasts for a duration of 16 hours from Sunday to Friday, 17 hours on Saturday and 18 hours with movies during the school holidays.
In 1986, M-Net was launched as South Africa's first pay-television channel and, along with Canal+, only the second outside of the United States.The channel immediately showed its intention to include sport in its programming line-up, by securing exclusive rights of an important Currie Cup match between Transvaal and Western Province for its first ever broadcast.