Telemundo is a general entertainment channel owned by NBCUniversal which since it's launch in 2013 has served fans across Africa with a number of Portuguese telenovelas including My Heart Beats For Lola, Fearless Heart, Nurses and Lord Of The Skies.
Also part of the launch was the duplicate channel on 507 which is an exact copy of 118 but unlike the channel there's no English audio much less subtitles as seen with the likes of StarPlus and Zee TV but weird is how 118 is viewable in Portuguese.
As seen in September 2020, WWE Channel operated by SuperSport in partnership with WWE on channel 128 and 236 as mentioned when the channel got a duplicate. The idea was to get the channel close to the other SuperSport brands as selected content is viewed there.
Fast forward to 2021, MultiChoice decided to backtrack on the duplicate channel as pay-tv company highlighted a division in consumers and the reason for its remainder on the general entertainment section dealing with the fact consumers are accustomed to 128.
When it comes to Telemundo, there hasn't been any complaints about the duplicate channel I mean they were rumours about them unifying both brands cause as mentioned 118 supplies both English and Portuguese soundtracks to the channel.
But that seems highly unlikely as just like WWE is on 128. For those who view Telemundo on 507 are just as accustomed to the fact it's there same goes to those who were currently viewing the dubbed audio on channel 118.
Imagine hailing from Angola, watching channel 118 and having to always change the soundtrack from English to Portuguese whenever you browse the channel I mean there's no way to leave it under the Portuguese soundtrack and overtime that gets really irritating.
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