To summarise, Openview has added 4 test channels on numbers 241, 242, 301 & 302. Although, there hasn't been a lot of frequent activity going around when clicking onto these channels but that doesn't mean there hasn't been any unusual activities.
Take for instance, the 200s which were used for SABC 2 and SABC 3 as a full schedule was available at the time with the tag Ultraview Pride and finally the 300s which were categorised under the tag Ultraview Indian.
Of course unlike Ultraview Indian, Pride doesn't give much of a summary as to what it's about for all we know the term could be another way to compliment the existing local offering on SABC and e.tv and another instance could LGBTQ.
eMedia Investments:
- More e.tv coming soon to DStv customers
- Could SABC be unveiling another two channels for Openview Ultra?
- Glow TV to stop airing on the Openview platform from next month
- Could Openview+ lead to 24 hour capability of these channels?
Last year, when eMedia Investments unveiled plans to launch Openview Ultra the plan was to make it diverse which was what we can clearly see with Ultraview Indian and the LGBTQ community was referenced in regards to this matter.
If Ultraview Pride is what I'm assuming LGBTQ then they would have been the first to give these audiences a platform.
MultiChoice had experimented with such content through OUTtv and at the moment can only be streamed on Showmax with other channels on DStv just offering LGBTQ cameos not really something that you would say is LGBTQ skewed.
If Pride is one way to refer to the local entertainment which too is another way of diversity. My hunch is that eMedia Investments might as well be dividing the free to their paying consumer.
Instead of having MultiChoice channels 101, 103 and 109 being premium and 102, 105 and 106 being Compact it will be more of getting these brands closer to one another with channels 101-150 being the free package and anything above it being the Ultraview.
Taking to account, this isn't really a good done deal but just a rumour until proven otherwise. But the idea of these brands possibly being on Openview is not far fetched to say the least particularly for Ultraview Indian.
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