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Friday, February 11, 2022

January's Viewership Stats For Glow TV Raises Even More Suspicion Regarding Its Sudden Termination From The Openview Platform + Zee World And Star Life's Stats Are Included Inside

Viewership stats for the weeks of 20 - 26 January are out for Zee World, Star Life and Glow TV. Through these stats, you can clearly see Zee World pulls in the most punches outside of reruns compared to the other two despite being accessible on Openview.

Zee World's viewership stats goes as follows:

Twist Of Fate (Rerun) - 1.4
King Of Hearts (Rerun) - 1.2
My Heart Knows - 2.0
These Streets - 1.6
I Do - 1.9
Twist Of Fate - 2.4
Once There Was A King - 2.1

Total: 10 million (12,6 million if it includes reruns)

Also read:
- Simply Maria alongside two other telenovelas launching soon on TLNovelas
- The Search For Frida March 2022 teasers
- Nurses March 2022 teasers
- Case Closed returns to Telemundo ahead of Nurses debut
- Televisa and Univision merger is complete
- Doodsondes S4 coming soon to eExtra
- The Blood Sisters coming in Zulu likely on ST Novelas
- Globoplay and Televisa upcoming programs

Important notes:
- Twist Of Fate is the most watched show despite the amount of criticism the fate series get proving that any attention is beneficial for a business to grow.
- Compared to the other channels, Zee World doesn't have any programs sitting below the 1 million mark.
- Zee World reruns have more viewers than other channel on the list.
- These Streets and to some extent I Do both of which are repeats from eExtra are the only shows sitting below the 2 million mark on primetime.

Star Life's viewership stats goes as follows:

Geet (Rerun) - 0.6
Illusion - 1.1
Mismatched - 3.9
Wedding Planners - 1.8
The Insolent Heart - 0.4

Total: 7,2 million (7,8 million if it includes reruns)

Important notes:
- Mismatched was the most watched show better yet the only thing keeping the channel afloat with its dismal viewership.
- The Insolent Heart was the least watched show of course it wouldn't be a big deal but imagine a repeat such as Geet having more views than a new show.
- None of their programs are sitting in the 2 and to some extent 3 million tile yet Mismatched broke all the laws of physics with their 3.9 million (4 million) views.
- The only channel with less repeated programming.

Also read:
- This City Will Come Behind You coming soon to Timeless Dizi Channel
- Pantaya working on content with Telemundo and Televisa stars
- List of K-dramas and reality shows TVN will likely air if they return to DStv
- Upcoming programming for Telemundo Africa
- The Law Of Revenge coming soon to St Novelas
- Upcoming programming for Star Life and Zee World
- tvN pushing to become a permanent linear channel in Africa

Glow TV's viewership stats goes as follows:

This Is Love (Rerun) - 0.8
A Touch Of Love - 1.5
Emperor Ashoka - 1.6
A Love To Die For - 1.0
True Love (Rerun) - 0.9

Total: 4,1 million (5,8 if you include reruns)

Important notice:
- Emperor Ahsoka was the most watched show and it's not a big deal as A Touch Of Love is behind by 0.1 views.
- Glow TV repeats have more views than Star Life

If anyone remembers that incident with Glow TV's owners Nismedia and eMedia Investments which led them to court. eMedia Investments turned to viewership as the sole cause of Glow TV's demise.

Compare Glow TV with Star Life, does the channel stand a chance of remaining on the Openview platform past their February 2023 expiration date?

Even the recently launched Zee One which was set to replace the channel has more views.

Zee One's viewership stats goes as follows:

27 Jan - 03 Feb

Guddan - 2.4
Reach For The Stars - 1.0
The Heir - 1.6
Lies Of The Heart - 2.0
My Golden Home - 0.4

Total: 7,4 million

Also read:
- Saloni and East Meets West coming soon to SABC 2
- Kara Sevda and Kuzgun coming soon to Timeless Dizi Channel
- tvN unveils upcoming music shows
- Prima Donnas coming soon to KTN Home
- Lockdown Ki Love Story coming soon to Star Life
- Die Vreemdeling is airing on Timeless Dizi Channel international in English
- Studio Dragon unveil a set of Korean dramas launching on tvN

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Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Truth Seeking Questions: Why Did Openview Become Indianview And What To Observe About The Offering On eExtra? + Upcoming Shows For eReality

Openview: "Where did we go wrong?"

Telenovelas has always been present on this platform. It wasn't as prominent as it appears to be before most of them were repeats from DStv ranging from Telemundo, Azteca TV and Globo.

Now it seems like the main focus is to incorporate content that can be uploaded to eVOD as seen with those Indian series on eExtra. Aside from that, eMedia doesn't want to acknowledged as a DStv+.

The Indian offering continues its domination on eExtra but there's reasons why they haven't parted ways as yet. Aside from having a loyal fanbase there's not much alternatives.

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The matter regarding Telemundo and Azteca have been cleared but with Globo the reasons go deeper. M-Net provided funds to get Brazilian shows in English and just like K-TV viewers found other alternatives.

In the end, what option is left for them aside from Korean and Turkish shows. It doesn't seem like they plan to bring those DStv repeats unless they were able to add it onto eVOD.

In other news: eExtra is set to welcome three series Die Put, High Society Scandal and Vishkanya. Other rumoured titles for the channel include Bullets And Bloods and Kindred Hearts.

What to learn from eExtra's Bollywood block?

Aside from the fact that 95% of the content comes from Zee TV with the channel distributing The Heir a few days after its supplier's rival brand Zee One. The lineup has seemingly became thematic.

Similar to the other Indian channels, eExtra has given a persona to each timeslot. The first slot is for the average, the second is reserved for Zee World and the last is for the paranormal.

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Call in the troops, eReality has something to say:

eReality happens to be the most popular reality channel in South Africa asidpe of being in the Top 10 channels in the market. The brand has invested time in several titles part of which may have been seen on DStv.

WAGS, this show features the fabulous lives of the wives and girlfriends of professional athletes.

Who Shot Biggie & Tupac?, a two-hour investigative special that probes the unsolved murders of rappers Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur, from Critical Content.

Kevin Hart: What The Fit the titular character teams up with celebrity friends and YouTube stars each week as they attempt to master a different trending and sometimes ridiculous workout routine.

Fear Thy Neighbor - documenting a series of crimes in which neighbours take their quarrels too far, as their feuds end in violence and even murder.

Also joining the lineup is OJ Simpson's Case, Killer Couples, Christmas Cook Book and Prankster.

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Saturday, November 6, 2021

TLNovelas Africa Makes More Adjustments To Their Lineup + The Indian Uprising On DStv, Openview And Starsat Includes Channel Closures And New Content

TLNovelas makes more schedule changes

From November 8th, TLNovelas stopped airing content in the form of a double bill meaning Crown Of Tears, Rode To Destiny, I Dare You To Leave and Fooled Into Love air once a day with omnibuses taking up the slots A Rose Of Guadalupe once occupied.

Viewers are still awaiting on news regarding A Shelter For Love now they have to deal with the fact that they're missing yet another show from their lineup.

As usual the channel doesn't specify the reasons for the change or whether A Rose Of Guadalupe will return in its weekend timeslot or whether they don't see that timeslot viable for new content.

Now that the schedule looks like that of Telemundo at launch. It wouldn't be surprising if they joined that station alongside Zee World and switched to 7 day viewing.

More beef on Glow...seems likely

Glow TV and Sony Entertainment India formed somewhat a partnership where Sony would lend their content to the SA brand but that might not be the case anymore.

According to sources, Glow TV was set to air a show titled Unconditional Love (Kuch Rang Pyaar Ke Aise Bhi) in February 2021 but was postponed only to cancelled indefinitely.

It was speculated that the reason for the sudden removal had something to do with Sony's merge with their rivals Zee TV.

It's evident that Glow TV doesn't want to be another eExtra where they leech content from third parties who supply linear channels that can be accessible to their audience.

Before Star Life made its way to African shores. A handful of content was available on Glow TV now the channel is caught in a similar rift with M-Net where they have to find other means of keeping viewers entertained.

On top of more local content, M-Net distributes British content thanks to the axing of ITV Choice while soaps from Colors TV is keeping Glow TV's viewership afloat so long as they don't try stirring up competition.

&TV being merged onto Zee TV

&TV which is home to Gangaa, Begusarai and The Heir was supposedly set to launch their own station in Africa but due to some contractual clause with Zee TV that couldn't happen.

According to sources, Zee TV might sacrifice a portion of their schedule to &TV sort of like a programming block and it goes as follows:

4pm - Bhabhi Ji Ghar Par Hai?
5pm - Happu Kai Ultan Paltan
6pm - Aur Bhai, Kya Chal Raha Hai?
6:30pm - Gangaa

The possible implications to Zee and Sony merge

Zee Cinema is rumoured to launch on the DStv Indian package from the 15th of November as a replacement for the Indian Sony Max channel of which neither party have yet to confirm.

They also don't mention if WION will be made available around the period as Zee Cinema seeing that it also belongs to Zee Entertainment Enterprises.

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Monday, October 4, 2021

Could Nismedia's Controversial Glow TV Return To Openview And DStv?

In 2018, MultiChoice got into a brawl with Nismedia regarding the carriage agreement for Glow TV and three years later, eMedia Investments in charge of Openview gets into a similar scandal with the company.

In July, they were rumours swirling around that Star Life would stop airing on Openview and that an eBella type channel would launch in its place (coincidence).

Just like MultiChoice, Nismedia has filed a case against eMedia for breaching their contract which was set to expire in February 2023. There's no indicator on how true any of this but not long ago VIU took the same action making eMedia look unprofessional.

Through court documents similar to the one for MultiChoice, they request that the channel remain on Openview until the whole matter is resolved.

Nazeer Noormohamed who serves as the CEO of the channel alongside the production staff and several fans have been invading several platforms to vent out their frustration.

According to the CEO, the court could take this matter seriously since they ran into a similar encounter three years ago and if all goes well. They might even review the case with MultiChoice.

As good as that all sounds, Glow TV hasn't been performing well in terms of "management".

They want to air all the episodes Openview customers missed out on from scratch if they return knowing very well that there's StarSat customers viewing Glow TV.

Three years along the line, Openview customers often experienced technical difficulty so Glow TV constantly adjusted their schedule to please them while other brands would move forward.

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Friday, October 1, 2021

Ahead Of Two New SABC Channels, Glow TV Is The Second Channel To Go Off Air On Openview This Year

After 8 years, eMedia Investments' Openview platform silently parts ways with Nismedia's Indian brand, Glow TV leaving many viewers devastated as to why the channel was terminated from the platform.

eMedia Investments as usual doesn't inform the media about any of the changes coming towards their Openview platform so we have search around for the necessary info.

Openview is in the process of launching two more channels from the SABC which to me could be their way of trying to make up for the loss of Glow TV so pretty much cost cutting.

Glow TV hasn't been off to a good start formerly owned by Urban Brew Studios. The channel was on the verge of shutting down in 2015 only to be saved by Nismedia.

Even after the new owners came into the equation. The channel has been repetitive not only that losing out on several programming as more competitors such as Zee World and Star Life entered the circuits.

Three years ago, the channel was removed from DStv as the contract ended with them so they sought to eMedia Investments for the unsuccessful eBella channel whose content is now directed onto eExtra.

Seeing that eExtra is now increasing their hours for Kuiertyd. It wouldn't surprise me if it became a Mzansi Magic and kykNET infused channel while the Indian and Koren content were put on a seperate channel perhaps in Rewind's place.

Getting back to Glow TV, viewers will still be able to watch the channel through StarSat while Openview viewers have eExtra and Star Life to keep them occupied.

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Friday, April 13, 2018

I Think Gupta-Linked Zee Edged Us Out, Says Glow TV Boss

On Saturday, 31 March 2018 Glow TV was still a glow on DStv channel 167 and by Sunday, 1 April at midnight, the channel was snuffed out and now it looks like this:

The channel itself hasn't shut down because it's still available on OpenView HD and StarSat so what's going on?

TVSA has been receiving a blitz of queries from Glow fans asking what's going on and why the channel's soapies are no longer airing on DStv so we've been trying to find out - which has been easier said than done!

When only one channel doesn't get renewed.

The story starts last month when DStv published a press release stating that Glow TV would stop airing on DStv, with no reason given. All the release said was that Glow's contract has come to an end and the rest was an extended plug for other channels that also feature Indian soapies. This from the release:

Glow TV’s contract with MultiChoice is coming to an end, which means the channel will stop airing on DStv from 31 March 2018.

Fans of Indian-specific content needn’t worry - DStv has ensured that there are plenty more telenovelas, talk shows, music and movies to watch on Zee World (DStv channel 166), Zee Bollywood Movies (DStv channel 114) and eBella (DStv channel 159 from 5 March 2018).

Three things happened after this:
1. Glow TV launched an urgent application in the Johannesburg High Court against DStv, disputing the shutdown of the channel. The court ruled that Glow and DStv should resolve the dispute through arbitration.
2. The Glow TV soapie teasers disappeared in the crisis. TVSA has tried to get them from the channel but they haven't been available.
3. TVSA sent this query to MultiChoice:

"Please can we get comment from MultiChoice on why Glow won’t be on DStv anymore? We‘ve carried the Glow soapie teasers for years so we’d like to find out why to give readers insight."
We received this one line response from the MultiChoice Corporate Communications department which didn't answer the question:

"The contract has come to an end."
D-Day looms

On Thursday, 29 March, Nazeer Noormohamed, CEO of Glow and Managing Director of Nis Media (the South African-owned company who own Glow) launched an urgent court application to try to keep Glow on air until the arbitration between DStv and Glow has been completed.

The arbitration hasn't happened yet so Glow applied to stay on DStv until this has been done. The court refused the application, stating that the channel is on air because of its availability on OpenView HD and StarSat.

On Thursday evening, TVSA spoke with Nazeer after the court judgment. He told us that Glow would still be proceeding with the arbitration but he was concerned about the amount of time it will take.

"We're still going to continue an arbitration," Nazeer told us, "but these guys could now delay, delay, delay and before you know it it's six months or a year that we've been switched off.

"If we were switched on and then there was a delay, we wouldn't mind but now we're switched off and you know, a court process, so we could go for two years and then say, 'Yes, you're right, they can't switch you off,'but is there any point to that?" W.H.Y.

We asked Nazeer what reason DStv gave to Glow management for the switch-off and this is what he said:
Nazeer: "They first told us that we're not performing well so we said, 'Show us our stats, show us how we're not performing,'but they refused to show us how we're not performing, where we were not performing".

We think they're promoting Zee TV. We came to find out that they're paying Zee TV to be on air and they're not paying us so Zee TV's got an advantage over us. Zee TV owns a share or owned a share with New Age, which is the Gupta family and there was a link between the two.

"We feel that that was done through those kind of schemes you understand, to say, 'Listen here, get this guy out,' because if you say we're not performing...if I say your kid is not performing in school, the first thing you're going to ask is, 'Show me the report,' You can't just say he's not performing..how much did he get out of 10, out of 100? How much did he get? They're not prepared to show us that.

"I think Zee was behind it."

"You know, MultiChoice didn't want encryption on the government set boxes, and the minister, who was the last minister, was the one who was supporting DStv, you know that, politically, although the ANC was against it".

"The ANC said they wanted encryption but the minister himself and the president was supporting MultiChoice/DStv and that's what we believe, it is our belief that the Guptas influenced whoever to say "Support DStv" and DStv in turn supported the Guptas with Zee TV and now all this has to come out and how and when - do we have the energy to take it on? I don't know.

We're going to go for the arbitration, even if it's just academic, it's fine. But wait, the plot thickens...This isn't the first time that Nazeer and the Guptas have made the headlines when it comes to matters of TV.

In September last year City Press reported that Nazeer and a consortium that he headed-up (Southern Star Mega Investors Group) offered the Guptas R600-million for their Infinity Media (which includes ANN7), which the Guptas sold to Mzwanele Manyi for R450-million instead...what about e?

Interesting to note is the shutdown of Glow comes in the same month that eBella launched on DStv, which, as DStv's press release emphasises, also has Indian soapies. The launch of eBella takes the e stable of channels on DStv to five.

Friday, March 2, 2018

Glow TV Stops Airing On DStv

Glow TV’s contract with MultiChoice is coming to an end, which means the channel will stop airing on DStv from 31 March 2018.

Fans of Indian-specific content needn’t worry – DStv has ensured that there are plenty more telenovelas, talk shows, music and movies to watch on Zee World (DStv channel 166), Zee Bollywood Movies (DStv channel 114) and eBella (DStv channel 159 from 5 March 2018).

Customers can look forward to Baar Baar Dekho, Dangal, Kahaani 2 and London Dreams on Zee Bollywood Movies, Fire and Ice, Sacred Ties, Lies of the Heart on Zee World and Bin Kuch Kahe, Qubool Hai, India: A Love Story, Fatmagul and Tanto Amor on eBella. And on Telemundo Prisoners of Love (Telemundo, 1 March) and Lord of the Skies (Telemundo, 9 April).

Other channels on DStv that also offer Indian specific content include Zee World on DStv channel 166 – it’s available to customers from DStv Family upwards. All DStv customers also have access to some of the latest Bollywood blockbusters on BoxOffice.

DStv offers a DStv Indian package which is designed to cater for customers who would like to watch more Indian-specific content. This package includes popular channels like Star, Sony, Zee and Colours. It is available as a stand-alone package or can be added to an existing DStv package. More information here: https://campaign.dstv.com/indian/

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