{"id":82553,"date":"2013-07-19T11:52:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T09:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=82553"},"modified":"2013-07-19T11:58:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T09:58:43","slug":"dstv-free-open-content-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/82553-dstv-free-open-content-weekend.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv free open content weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"MultiChoice\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/216214-MultiChoice\">MultiChoice<\/a> is unlocking a range of channels for its subscribers from 19-22 July as part of an experimental \u201copen content weekend\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice explained that its <a title=\"DStv\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/383647-DStv\">DStv<\/a> experiential weekend is aimed at exposing customers in lower tier packages to selected channels available on DStv Premium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe objective of the Open Content Weekend is to drive upgrades to DStv Premium,\u201d MultiChoice said in a forum post.<\/p>\n<p>The channels will be opened for active DStv customers in those packages to view from Friday, 19 July at 4pm until Monday, 22 July at 6am.<\/p>\n<p>Channels available during the Open Content Weekend:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sport<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SuperSport 1<\/li>\n<li>SuperSport 2<\/li>\n<li>SuperSport 3<\/li>\n<li>SuperSport 5<\/li>\n<li>SuperSport 6<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Documentaries and Lifestyle<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Discovery<\/li>\n<li>BBC Knowledge<\/li>\n<li>Crime and Investigation<\/li>\n<li>Animal Planet<\/li>\n<li>History Channel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Entertainment and Movies<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Africa Magic Entertainment<\/li>\n<li>Trace Sports<\/li>\n<li>FOX<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Childrens\u2019<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>CBeeBies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">News<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>SkyNews<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Special Events<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Big Brother Africa (Channel 197 and 198)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Music<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>MTV Base<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on DStv<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"More HD channels for DStv\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/82323-more-hd-channels-for-dstv.html\"><strong>More HD channels for DStv<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/82123-dstv-sports-channels-face-the-axe.html\"><strong>DStv sports channels face the axe<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/82115-bloomberg-back-on-dstv.html\"><strong>Bloomberg back on DStv<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/81687-sabc-gupta-tv-coming-to-dstv.html\"><strong>SABC, Gupta TV coming to DStv<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/81719-toptv-porn-channels-delayed-report.html\"><strong>TopTV porn channels delayed: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice has unlocked a range of channels as part of its experimental \u201copen content weekend\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":73576,"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":[85,35,475],"class_list":["post-82553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-headline","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82553"}],"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=82553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82559,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82553\/revisions\/82559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}