{"id":242140,"date":"2017-12-14T10:54:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T08:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=242140"},"modified":"2017-12-14T10:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T08:56:00","slug":"dstv-renews-contract-for-discovery-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/242140-dstv-renews-contract-for-discovery-channels.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv renews contract for Discovery channels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice and Discovery Networks have renewed their agreement for Discovery&#8217;s channels on DStv.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement includes video-on-demand and Catch Up hours for Discovery&#8217;s portfolio, including TLC, ID, and Discovery Family shows.<\/p>\n<p>Discovery&#8217;s channels will also be available to stream through DStv Now from early 2018, while ID and Discovery Family will become available in HD early next year.<\/p>\n<p>DStv also confirmed that TLC will launch in HD.<\/p>\n<p>Animal Planet is not included in the new agreement and will stop airing on DStv on 30 December 2017.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/240224-dstvs-latest-subscriber-numbers-and-revenue-figures.html\">DStv&#8217;s latest subscriber numbers and revenue figures<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice and Discovery Networks have renewed their agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":224750,"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":[16902,85],"class_list":["post-242140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-discovery-networks","tag-dstv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242140"}],"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=242140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242148,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242140\/revisions\/242148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}