Last year, Paramount had closed down its operations across Africa affecting brands like BET and MTV Base as well as local productions on MTV and Nicktoons. Similar to Amazon Prime Video, they no longer produce original content in Africa.
Canal+ which took over MultiChoice's operations late last year had told regulators and the media that DStv consumers should expect more content during the year. This prompted the inclusion of BASE Pulse as a replacement to MTV Base.
It looks like MultiChoice might be eyeing Newzroom Afrika's parent company The Rooms Network for channels. Not long ago, The Rooms Network announced that Movie Room will be producing its first feature film, Thuli's Doek.
Within the description column of their press release, it was also stated "additional channels in development". The Rooms Network had expressed interest venturing toward general entertainment as seen with Movie Room and Play Room.
With BASE Pulse that launched in place of MTV Base, we can only assume The Rooms Network could be looking to replace BET on DStv.
The Rooms Network has been dubbing international films and TV shows in Zulu with the announcement of its first feature film, Thuli's Deck. It wouldn't seem far fetched a stretch to think that one of the channels in development was BET inspired.
Following the removal of 1Magic and Me, there had been talks of another TV channel in development. This channel was said to be locally infused while boasting content from other TV channels and it's likely this formed part of the additional channels.
After rivalling with Cartoon Network, TNT and likely the rest of M-Net's linear offering. We can assume if another TV channel(s) is in development it would either target Bravo or most definitely Telemundo.
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