{"id":82763,"date":"2013-07-23T10:53:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T08:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=82763"},"modified":"2013-07-24T09:28:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T07:28:22","slug":"dstv-channel-changes-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/82763-dstv-channel-changes-announced.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv channel changes announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DStv\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/383647-DStv\">DStv<\/a> announced in a press release today (23 July 2013) that it will change the channel numbers of Russia Today and NDTV from 1 August 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Russia Today (currently channel 405) will be moving to channel 407 and NDTV (currently channel 407) will be moving to channel 413.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, it recently emerged that a <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/82563-new-dstv-explora-decoder-launching-soon.html\">new DStv decoder called the \u201cExplora\u201d<\/a> is expected to be unveiled on 31 July 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The English language Russia Today channel is also one of the free-to-air offerings on the SES \u201cAstra\u201d satellites at 5\u00b0E.<\/p>\n<p>A new subscription-free satellite TV service operating on the Astra 5\u00b0E satellites called OpenView HD is expected to launch in South Africa during October 2013.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on broadcasting in South Africa<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/82563-new-dstv-explora-decoder-launching-soon.html\"><strong>New DStv \u201cExplora\u201d decoder launching soon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/82725-free-satellite-tv-for-sa-confirmed-platco.html\"><strong>Free satellite TV for SA confirmed: Platco<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/82551-free-sd-and-hd-satellite-tv-for-sa.html\"><strong>Free SD and HD satellite TV for SA<\/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<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/81081-dstv-sport-exclusivity-debate-ridiculous-naspers-ceo.html\"><strong>DStv sport exclusivity debate ridiculous: Naspers CEO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice has announced that two channels will get new numbers in August<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":73150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,85,475,20579,20577],"class_list":["post-82763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-dstv","tag-multichoice","tag-ndtv","tag-russia-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82763"}],"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=82763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82767,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82763\/revisions\/82767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}