MultiChoice is dropping four E-tv channels from the DStv platform on 1 April 2022, eMedia has announced.<\/p>\n
\u201ceMedia and MultiChoice have renewed a channel supply agreement in which Multichoice have opted not to carry certain eMedia channels, namely eMovies, eMovies Extra, eExtra and eToonz,\u201d an eMedia spokesperson stated.<\/p>\n
DStv will only broadcast the news channel eNCA (channel 403), and it will carry E-tv\u2019s daily Afrikaans news bulletin on kykNET (channel 144).<\/p>\n
MultiChoice has retained its exclusive rights to eNCA.<\/p>\n
The free-to-air E-tv channel is licensed under a separate agreement, and it will continue to air on DStv.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the e.tv channels will continue to broadcast and are still available on the Openview platform,\u201d eMedia stated.<\/p>\n
eMedia\u2019s announcement follows a Rapport article<\/a><\/strong> on Sunday, which reported that E-tv would be cutting its E-tv News & Sport channel from Openview.<\/p>\n According to Rapport, around 37 permanent employees were fired from E-tv on Monday afternoon. Reportedly 23 contract workers were also let go.<\/p>\n MultiChoice has decided to drop several E-tv channels from its platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":397927,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[85,2092,74596,35,475],"class_list":["post-435980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-e-tv","tag-emedia-holdings","tag-headline","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435980"}],"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=435980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435984,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435980\/revisions\/435984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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