Following the news of FOX's demise by The Walt Disney Company from October, viewers on StarTimes are set to lose out on another premium channel which is known other than The Smithsonian Channel.
The Smithsonian Channel operated by ViacomCBS International launched on StarSat in SA and StarTimes in the rest of Africa in November 2019 alongside Love Nature and at the time served as replacement channels for National Geographic and National Geographic WILD before returning a year.
StarTimes doesn't specify the exact reason for the termination of The Smithsonian Channel but they promise to to source out more content on top of looking for replacement channels.
From December 2020 till now StarSat lost over 10 channels some of which can be found on Openview and DStv including the entire set of Discovery Channels and two local music channels.
Throughout that period, the only thing they could say is they're sourcing out more content. So far only 4 channels launched: Jib TV (Zimbabwe), MUTV, Fashion TV and Roots TV (South Africa) none of these channels have anything appealing or similar to the channels lost.
With that in mind, a lot of viewers will likely just cancel their subscription seeing as most of the premium channels have been removed and opt to another service provider while others will just harass them for more channels with better content.
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