For those of you with DStv you might have come across Telemundo, a channel owned by NBCUniversal International along with Universal and E! Entertainment. The channel can be found on DStv channel 118 in English and 507 in Portuguese, it is available on GOtv.
For those who've watched the channel since the channel's presence in the market would have noticed the overload and mismanaged repeats seen on Telemundo during the daytime reason being has to do with super series that are deemed inappropriate for daytime viewing and the fact they invest more money into them compared to those basic telenovelas.
Now getting back to the topic Telemundo has made a lot of changes in the year which includes repeating old series in the mornings with some getting the weekend treatment which led to scrapping the omnibus for super series and airing them everyday which is hurting the channel a lot considering the fact that they don't have a lot of content in the vault so this is their desperate attempt to keep viewers tuned in.
There was mismanagement of repeated shows in January Telemundo was set to broadcast a repeat of My Perfect Family instead viewers got Love and Betrayal and were told the show would follow immediately after this Argentine telenovela but it didn't till now. This hasn't been happening to one but all the repeats scheduled for the channel later this year leading the media to have doubts on some of the shows.
According to some insiders, Telemundo will be using the slots around 2am-4am to repeat shows and apparently Behind Closed Doors and The Son I Never Knew are slated for that slot so far nothing has been official chances are these slots will be implemented but they'll put other shows on there.
Then there's the 7 days a week treatment something Zee World and Star Life currently have going on which doesn't look good at all for Telemundo considering how much telenovelas they have in the vault in their birthplace. Chances are this format will be introduced as the channel might revive the catch up slot on weekends for like 2 hours.
Something that has been an ongoing conversation for years there has been speculation that the channel will start airing certain programs weekly which wouldn't be a bad idea for some series like You Can't Hide starring Blanca Soto which has just 10 episodes followed by Luis Miguel which might have 26 episodes.
Biographies, the one thing Telemundo hasn't broadcasted as yet from their vault. Good news, those shows might invade your screens the bad news no one knows how long those will take to arrive.
We all know Telemundo has competition and no one I'm not talking about Eva instead the retarded channel FOX Life which introduced four new Televisa telenovelas most of them are based on old telenovelas not to mention new for Southern Africa so yeah it's not a rival but another competition for the some parts of Africa.
The last rumored development which could have been scrapped is classic telenovelas the ones below 2010 which many fans have struggled to see and wanted the channel to broadcast. Apparently there was some rumor that it might have been wanted to introduce them in the mornings and afternoons but since then there's been nothing about it. They also were some rumor that they wanted to introduce some African reality series that will be filled with Nostalgia.
Telemundo will be celebrating its 7th year in Africa in August. The question remains on how many more surprises and disappointments we should expect from this brand.
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