{"id":75827,"date":"2013-04-18T11:03:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T09:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=75827"},"modified":"2013-04-18T15:59:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T13:59:49","slug":"new-dstv-channels-in-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/75827-new-dstv-channels-in-development.html","title":{"rendered":"New DStv channels in development"},"content":{"rendered":"

DStv<\/a> is expected to launch a new African language channel in the next few weeks featuring reality and game shows in languages such as Zulu and Xhosa, an industry source has told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n

MultiChoice<\/a> declined to confirm or deny the development of a new channel, with a spokesperson providing the following statement:<\/p>\n

When we are ready to announce the launch of new channels, we will do so. At present, there is nothing to announce.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Without official confirmation from MultiChoice it is possible that some of the details might change, however indications are that the channel will be called \u201cMzansi Wethu\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to the source, the channel is currently set to launch on 6 May 2013.<\/p>\n

Well-known television journalist Thinus Ferreira also recently reported on his blog<\/a> that another new channel for the LSM<\/acronym> 4\u20136 black market called M-Net Movies Zone is also on the cards.<\/p>\n

A quick search for the rumoured two channels revealed that the DStv Media Sales website lists them as part of its portfolio, using the logos shown in the image above.<\/p>\n

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A new local channel is being developed for DStv, according to an industry source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":75829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[85,35,19107,475,19105],"class_list":["post-75827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-headline","tag-m-net-movies-zone","tag-multichoice","tag-mzansi-wethu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75827"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75831,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75827\/revisions\/75831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}