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Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Early Sketches Of Various DStv Packages Part Of Which Didn't Exist At The Time

DStv launched as South Africa's first pay-tv service in 1995 offering 18 premium channels. Now the platform has grown to become the biggest player in sports with SuperSport and include over 120+ channels which range from general entertainment, lifestyle and news.

Some of the bouquets include the mid tier Compact bouquet which has seen a decline in consumers following the forever changing economy and it's potential predecessor Access which has seen a growth in local commission and premium entertainment.

Before these bouquets were made accessible to the market sources mentioned that earlier sketches of the DStv bouquet were proposed but had since then not been used.

As seen below, each bouquet had named based on the quantity of channels and each had their own imprinted logos to give it more effect. Although, it's not known when work on these possible bouquets began we assume work started out in the later parts of 2010 based on the offering.


The cheapest bouquet was priced R20p/m and only consists of 17 channels including SABC 1-3, Mindset and TBN and the most expensive bouquet is priced R590p/m and features 90 channels including M-Net, Boomerang, Comedy Central and Discovery Channel.

Initially, DStv started out as a singular platform and it wasn't until 2005 were they opted for more bouquets, Compact. And if we understand anything about this sketch MultiChoice always intended to have more bouquets as Compact+ didn't exist when some of these channels were on the platform.

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