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Big changes at DStv

It has been a year since French media giant assumed control of DStv owner MultiChoice. Here are the major developments at the South African pay-TV giant since then.
 
Aah, the perfect simple title to make this a "breaking DStv news" thread :giggle:


Not mentioned - for those who missed it, the add on Indian package (no longer available on its own) lost one of its 9 channels recently, and will lose another 5 at month end.

Comments about it on the forum suggest that's considered too heavy a cut for it to survive, guess we'll see.
I did notice a possible name change somewhere for the doomed Indian news channel, Wion, so think that may continue in another form.
 
The sale of Discovery to Paramount was approved 2 days ago. Now...

Skydance combining HBO Max, Paramount+, and Discovery+ into a single service: Paramount Skydance has confirmed that it will merge HBO Max, Paramount+, and Discovery+ into a single streaming service. Both HBO and Paramount are former DStv content partners. It said the move should reduce fragmentation and simplify the user experience. [Ars Technica]
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So how much of it will now continue to be available on DStv (and how much of it will be woke)?


(Popular opinion was that if Netflix had've got it, it would have ruined the industry further.)
 
It only took Canal Plus a year to completely turn the company around while Mawela and his cronies spent more than a decade shedding most of the Premium subscribers, increasing prices, losing channel after channel, introducing nothing new and rewarding themselves with insane bonuses.

Please sell Eskom to a European energy company.
 
We've written about this one. Let me double-check it's published.
 
Crowley said:
Subscriber numbers aren't published so you can't accurately judge that

Correct

Since Canal+ took over they have closed down 20+ channels.
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No one cared about the channels they closed.
 
*Warning - rumour incoming... *


There's a massive amount of unprecedented adjustment activity going on behind the satellite scenes. It's kept encoded of course so not easy to read between the lines, but here's my take on it;

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  • A few more existing channels may possibly become available to smaller packages.
  • Another new package early not impossible.
  • SuperSport's MotorSport seems to be one important focus....


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Brian_G said:
*Warning - rumour incoming... *
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This partially-hidden activity has taken another "step" - on some older decoders quite a number of satellite transponders were removed from involvement a couple of days ago.

Yet none of our subscriber channels removed by this. Looks like a couple of them could be shifted though.

What for? Who knows.. only further suspicion I have is some cost-cutting by somehow shifting things enough.
Could be an interesting December though. I may leave it there.
 
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