Earlier in the month, there's been several reports that Openview customers would be losing the News And Sport channel as it was no longer viable as a news service and it will not appeal to audiences as a documentary and current affairs channel.
Several weeks later, eMedia Investments launched a brand new channel, Xposed which did exactly what would not appeal to the audience but at the expense of Rewind and likely News And Sport.
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- eExtra, eMovies, eMovies Extra and eToonz to stop airing on DStv
- Dokter Ali S2 coming in April to eExtra
- The Daughter-In-Law coming soon to Zee World while a repeat of The Vow debuts on Zee One
- Unforseen Love, Bold and Beautiful and Destined Love coming soon to Star Life
- Balaji Telefilms unveils new content possibly for Glow TV, Zee One, eExtra and Star Life
- Should eReality merge with News And Sport?
- Why MultiChoice is scrapping the eMedia channels?
- Doodsondes returning for a fourth season on eExtra
- Saloni and East Meets West coming soon to SABC 2
Details of the channel's content hasn't been shared with the media if I had to guess the channel will take the remaining content seen on News And Sport such as Impact Wrestling's library and infuse what little is left of Rewind.
e.tv is making some further changes to the primetime offering by adding more local content which inturn kills off Days Of Our Lives and the 20:30 international slot which was also available on Rewind for series like NCIS: Los Angeles and Chicago PD.
Xposed doesn't really cater to Rewind if anything it kind of feels like eMedia gave News And Sport a new coat of paint, scrapped 80% of the existing offering and moved it to another channel number to get it close with the other eChannels.
Also read:
- SABC Encore and SABC Children channel might be in development
- SABC wants to launch a second sports channel
- The Estate could be on the chopping block
- News And Sport set to go off air on Openview by the end of March
- Trollstopia coming soon to e.tv
- Could Zee One be rebranding soon?
- The Homemaker, The Accidental Mayor and Happily Ever After coming soon to Star Life
- No free eVOD data on MTN
- A Promise Of Love coming soon to Glow TV
- Racing240 expands to Openview this April
From April 11th, the only international thing on e.tv would be Judge Judy or Paternity Court, Craze block which will likely be discontinued in future alongside eToonz, wrestling, the movies which might not exist in the afternoons on weekends and the sitcoms at 19:30.
Taking that to consideration, there's not much left for Rewind as e.tv wants to make themselves look like SABC 1 which in turn has a lot of content that can be bundled onto their own streaming service.
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