MultiChoice has reached an agreement with A+E Networks Africa to extend the current contract to air History and Lifetime channels on the DStv platform.<\/p>\n
DStv announced on 1 October that it would cut three popular channels<\/strong><\/a> from its network at the end of October \u2013 History, Crime + Investigation, and Lifetime.<\/p>\n These three channels have been available to DStv Premium and DStv Compact Plus subscribers for years.<\/p>\n The contract term for these channels, which are all provided by the broadcasting company A+E Networks Africa, was set to end on 1 November 2019.<\/p>\n MultiChoice\u2019s senior manager for corporate communications Benedict Maaga told MyBroadband at the time that the decision formed part of a plan to refresh the DStv line-up.<\/p>\n MultiChoice said the extension of the contract with A+E Networks will ensure that DStv viewers continue to enjoy History and Lifetime.<\/p>\n The company said Lifetime programmes which will be shown include the premiere of Heartbreak Island, new seasons of Married at First Sight, and Surviving Jeffery Epstein.<\/p>\n History fans can look forward to new seasons of Curse of Oak Island and Forged in Fire, Watergate, and Rise of the Superbombs.<\/p>\n The good news for DStv Compact customers is that they will get access to Lifetime from 1 November 2019.<\/p>\n There is, however, some bad news: Crime+Investigation will still be cancelled tomorrow.<\/p>\n MultiChoice has announced that some of the popular channels it was planning to cut will remain on DStv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":120242,"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":[85,35,37250,475],"class_list":["post-325621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-headline","tag-history-channel","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325621"}],"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=325621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325623,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325621\/revisions\/325623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Deal reached with A+E Networks<\/h3>\n
Now read: DStv to cut channels<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"