{"id":104139,"date":"2014-06-12T12:46:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T10:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=104139"},"modified":"2014-06-12T12:48:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T10:48:24","slug":"new-dstv-hd-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/104139-new-dstv-hd-channel.html","title":{"rendered":"New DStv HD channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discovery Networks Central &amp; Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA), and MultiChoice announced the launch of a dedicated High Definition simulcast Discovery Channel on Monday, 30 June 2014, for DStv Premium customers across Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The new HD simulcast Discovery Channel will feature programmes such as Dynamo, Gold Rush, Bear Grylls, and Fast N\u2019 Loud in high definition.<\/p>\n<p>Discovery Channel HD will also feature more new series including a new scripted drama from Ridley Scott called Klondike.<\/p>\n<p>The channel will continue to broadcast on DStv channel 121 but with a specially designed new on-air look.<\/p>\n<p>Discovery HD Showcase (currently DStv channel 180) will stop broadcasting as it is replaced by the simulcast Discovery Channel.<\/p>\n<p>It will become a branded video-on-demand service, exclusive to the DStv Explora, giving customers access to their favourite HD Showcase titles.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on DStv<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"More DStv satellite capacity from Intelsat\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/104065-more-dstv-satellite-capacity-from-intelsat.html\"><strong>More DStv satellite capacity from Intelsat<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #263034;\"><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/103005-choosing-your-own-dstv-channels-multichoice-explains-2.html\"><strong>Choosing your own DStv channels: MultiChoice explains<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #263034;\"><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/102775-dstv-boxoffice-app-coming-to-samsung-smart-tvs.html\"><strong>DStv BoxOffice app coming to Samsung Smart TVs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovery Channel HD to feature refreshed on-air look and brand new programming line-up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":73576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,15844,85,475],"class_list":["post-104139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-discovery","tag-dstv","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104141,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104139\/revisions\/104141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}