MultiChoice will remove the CCTV-4 channel from its DStv satellite TV service at the end of the month.<\/p>\n
The pay-TV broadcaster said this decision formed part of its regular review of channel offerings to ensure it provided customers with the “best in local and international content”.<\/p>\n
“All channel and programme relationships are contractual and have an intended end-date which is then open for the parties to review,” MultiChoice explained.<\/p>\n
“This is part of the ongoing review of our products and services. Often channels are removed from the platform due to low viewership and performance on some packages.”<\/p>\n
“In this instance, the parties have agreed to not renew based on commercial viability and viewership of the channels.”<\/p>\n
CCTV-4 is a free-to-air TV channel from China Central Television, which broadcasts documentaries, music, news, dramas, sports, and children’s shows from the Greater China area.<\/p>\n
It is currently available on all DStv packages \u2014from the broadcaster’s cheapest EasyView plan to the top-end Premium bouquet.<\/p>\n
The channel will be terminated on all DStv platforms from 31 March 2023 at 23:59.<\/p>\n
This is the third major change in DStv’s channel line-up for 2023.<\/p>\n
In January 2023, it launched a music-focused channel called Qwest TV<\/strong><\/a> and SWITCH’D ON<\/strong><\/a>, which airs repeats of primetime content from Mzansi Magic, Mzansi Wethu, and Kyknet & Kie.<\/p>\n Last year, the broadcaster made several significant changes<\/strong><\/a> to its offering \u2014 adding seven channels and removing eight.<\/p>\n However, it was forced to bring back four eTV channels following a Competition Commission ruling ordering the broadcaster to reinstate the channels.<\/p>\n DStv will remove the channel, which broadcasts documentaries, music, news, dramas, sports, and children shows, on 31 March 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":441746,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[84673,21981,85,76186,35,475,427],"class_list":["post-482155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-cctv-4","tag-china-central-television","tag-dstv","tag-dstv-channels","tag-headline","tag-multichoice","tag-satellite-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482155"}],"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=482155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:Police seize and destroy 5,000 fake DStv remotes<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"