{"id":137318,"date":"2015-09-03T14:26:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T12:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=137318"},"modified":"2015-09-03T14:28:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T12:28:06","slug":"more-channels-coming-to-dstv-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/137318-more-channels-coming-to-dstv-2.html","title":{"rendered":"More channels coming to DStv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice has revealed it will launch\u00a0at least four pop-up channels in 2016, following the &#8220;experimental running&#8221; of a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/136890-new-dstv-star-wars-channel-launched.html\">Star Wars pop-up channel<\/a><\/strong> during September.<\/p>\n<p>According to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel24.co.za\/TV\/News\/DStv-4-pop-ups-channels-coming-in-2016-20150903\" target=\"_blank\">Channel24<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0chief content officer for MultiChoice Africa\u00a0David Booth said the company has plans to launch more pop-up channels in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Following the running\u00a0of the Star Wars channel, DStv will run a\u00a0kids&#8217; channel from Turner Broadcasting during the December holiday period in SA.<\/p>\n<p>Turner Broadcasting supplies MultiChoice with kids\u2019 channels Cartoon Network and the pre-school Cartoonito programming block, as well as\u00a0Boomerang.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to be more fluid and offer more pop-up and events channels \u2013 it&#8217;s very much part of our strategy,&#8221; said Booth.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on DStv<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/137236-dstv-billing-problems-explained.html\">DStv billing problems explained<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/137164-massive-dstv-billing-problems.html\">Massive DStv billing problems<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice has revealed it will launch at least four pop-up channels in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":120244,"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":[85,35,475],"class_list":["post-137318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-headline","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137318"}],"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=137318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137320,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137318\/revisions\/137320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}