South African broadcasters DStv and Openview have announced the launches of “anti-load-shedding” channels that will let viewers watch shows they may have missed during a power cut.<\/p>\n
The channels \u2014 DStv’s SWITCH’D ON and Openview’s Power-UP! \u2014 will broadcast select shows on loops, giving viewers multiple opportunities to view primetime shows.<\/p>\n
DStv’s SWITCH’D ON channel will be available from Tuesday, 24 January 2023, and will air primetime content from Mzansi Magic, Mzansi Wethu, and Kyknet & Kie.<\/p>\n
“MultiChoice is proud to announce the launch of DStv SWITCH’D ON, an intervention to lessen the frustration of DStv viewers due to the impact of the ongoing load-shedding,” MultiChoice said.<\/p>\n
“This intervention will give viewers up to five times to watch their favourite primetime shows when the lights come back on.”<\/p>\n
DStv’s SWITCH’D ON pop-up channel will air shows such as The River, DiepCity, Gqerberha the Empire, Gomora, and Arendsvlei.<\/p>\n
They will be open to DStv Premium, Compact Plus, Compact, Access, and Family subscribers. However, the channel will open an hour and a half later for Access and Family customers.<\/p>\n
The channel opens at 06:00 on channel 109 for Premium, Compact Plus, and Compact subscribers and closes at midnight.<\/p>\n
Family and Access subscribers will be able to access the channel from 07:30 on channel 110.<\/p>\n
Openview’s Power-ON! pop-up channel launched earlier with a similar premise \u2014 providing viewers multiple opportunities to watch their shows each day.<\/p>\n
“Power-UP! is the new pop-up channel that ensures viewers never miss a show again \u2014 no matter how your load-shedding schedule changes,” the eMedia-owned broadcaster said.<\/p>\n
Power-UP launched on Openview channel 114 on Monday, 23 January, and airs a loop of E-tv shows, including Durban Gen, House of Zwide, Scandal!, and Imbewu during the week.<\/p>\n
It will also broadcast repeats of Afrikaans dramas, including #DisComplicated, Daai Crazy Somer, and Die Vertoueling, on weekends.<\/p>\n
Power-UP will open at 06:00 each day and close at midnight.<\/p>\n
“Anti-load-shedding” is a fancy way of saying repeats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":435700,"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":[85,2092,51025,181,35,51867,475,50823],"class_list":["post-477437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-e-tv","tag-emedia","tag-eskom","tag-headline","tag-loadshedding","tag-multichoice","tag-openview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477437"}],"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\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477447,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477437\/revisions\/477447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}