Last year, eMedia Investments and MultiChoice got into a fist fight in regard to e.tv's 4 channels. According to MultiChoice, the channels don't fit their 5 year content plan and leverage of DStv content so we look at channels from the platform that air DStv content.
1. Televista
Not to be mistaken with Televisa, the channel is operated by Consolidated Media in Nigeria is home to brands like Trybe TV and SoundCity. Initially, the line-up featured the best of Mexico and Latin America with shows like Part Of Me and Without Breasts There's No Paradise. But over the years, the channel has gone as far as supplying Bollywood shows from Zee World.
2. TLNovelas
Despite being home to various original shows such as Head Over Heels, Secrets At The Hotel and Rubi. The TelevisaUnivision channel has been licensing content to various broadcasters across Africa so if there's a channel you want out then look no further than TLNovelas or likely the competition, Citizen TV.
3. Akilli Kids
Located in East Africa, Akilli Kids is a popular children's channel home to educational content in various languages including English aside from Akilli And Me. The channel supplies a stack of shows already viewed on DStv including various shows like Wild Kratts, Team Umizoomi, Splash And Bubbles and Elinor Wonders Why.
4. DreamWorks
International adaptation of eMedia Investments' eToonz so to speak as NBCUniversal had been licencing numerous content in a similar manner to TLNovelas to various broadcasters including the SABC. Basically, 90% of the channel consists of rehashed content for consumers in South Africa while eToonz gets with modern times.
5. Movie Room
Launched in 2022 as a replacement to eMovies and eMovies Extra, the channel is an M-Net Movies Zone or TCM tiered channel with Kagiso Media hoping to rollout original local films on the channel. The competitor to M-Net Movies has some type of uniqueness that can't be explored on other movie channels but when it comes to new movies there's only repeats of Step Up, Madea and Dragonball: Evolution.
6. TNT
Replaced TCM back in 2018, the channel currently ranks as the most popular movie channel in South Africa reaching 10 million households has something for action lovers with Venom, Poltergeist, Lethal Weapon, Suicide Squad and Justice League as if that hasn't been explored on M-Net Movies alongside TV's most talked about wrestling promotion, All Elite Wrestling.
7. Studio Universal
Basically an international version of eMovies or so what we almost believed at one point. The channel blew M-Net Movies out of the water after bringing out the latest films before any other channel on the Compact bouquet including Men In Black: International, Woody Woodpecker, Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle and Bad Boys For Life all of which had been seen on M-Net Movies 1 & 2.
8. Comedy Central
Being one of the few routes for international dramas (comedies) alongside BBC Brit and M-Net (or Me) the channel has garnered traction with the likes of South Park, The Daily Show, The Carbonaro Effect and Impractical Jokers. But what catches consumers attention is the endless reruns of M-Net's Two And A Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, Modern Family and Friends.
9. Universal
Serving as one of the few competitors to M-Net and BBC Brit, the channel garnered traction for the likes of Rosewood, Law And Order: SVU, Transplant and Fantasy Island. But just like most channels on the list play second fiddle to DStv/M-Net repeat with shows like Chicago P.D., NCIS: Los Angeles, S.W.A.T., Rizzoli And Isles and Bones.
10. Real Time and Discovery Family
After axing Discovery World and Animal Planet, MultiChoice thought of a swell to duplicate the content seen on Discovery Channel, TLC, Food Network, HGTV and Investigation Discovery on two channels thus limiting the content seen on the successors for content selected consumers already have.
11. Nicktoons
Currently the only kids channel to play second fiddle to another DStv channel as Cartoonito graduated out of repeats prior to its rebrand but Nicktoons continues to build up their offering with a stack of content already viewed on Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. including Dora The Explorer, Paw Patrol, The Casagrandes and Middlemost Post.
Conclusion:
This is Insidus giving you the 11 channels to offer DStv repeats but remain onboard while eMedia Investments 4 TV channels on DStv platform were being phased from existence for that exact same reason.
