{"id":76035,"date":"2013-04-19T15:03:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T13:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=76035"},"modified":"2013-04-19T15:27:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T13:27:48","slug":"dstv-access-launched-replaces-lite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/76035-dstv-access-launched-replaces-lite.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv Access launched, replaces Lite"},"content":{"rendered":"

MultiChoice announced today (19 April 2013) that from 7 May its R99\/month DStv Lite package will be renamed \u201cDStv Access\u201d and two new channels will be added to the bouquet.<\/p>\n

The satellite pay TV operator confirmed earlier reports that the two new channels will be called “Mzansi Wethu” and “M-Net Movies Zone”.<\/p>\n

MultiChoice said that subscribers on the DStv Family, DStv Compact and DStv Premium packages will also receive these two new channels.<\/p>\n

M-Net Movie Zone will launch on channel 139 and will feature a wide variety of content from comedies and dramas to family and action movies, MultiChoice said.<\/p>\n

Mzansi Wethu will be on channel 163 and will feature local content in a variety of genres including game shows, Lokshin Bioskop movies, sitcoms, local reality shows, and a studio-based new Lokshin soap, MultiChoice said.<\/p>\n

According to MultiChoice more than 50% of the programming on this channel will be in vernacular languages.<\/p>\n

M-Net Movie Zone will launch at 13:00 on Thursday, 7 May and Mzansi Wethu will kick off at 18:00 on the same day, MultiChoice said.<\/p>\n

\"Mzansi<\/a>

Mzansi Wethu Logo<\/p><\/div>\n

\"M-Net<\/a>

M-Net Movies Zone logo<\/p><\/div>\n

More pay TV and DStv news<\/h3>\n

New DStv channels in development<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

TopTV prices to be halved: StarTimes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

TopTV drops two channels<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

DStv On Demand for iPad<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Online video player for SA TV planned<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Along with a new name, two new channels are added to DStv Lite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":76043,"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":[85,19137,19135,35,19107,475,19105],"class_list":["post-76035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-dstv-access","tag-dstv-lite","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\/76035"}],"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=76035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76039,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76035\/revisions\/76039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}