Hip-Hop 411 Is Bringing The House Down On PremiumFree TV

It's been a while since the Openview competitor has made any headlines. The last anyone got an update had to do with its launch in South Africa alongside the mishap of the allocation of their channels to rivaling outlet.

Now we've recieved word from our sources that a new music destination Hip-Hop 411 will make a landing to PremiumFree and become the exclusive home to all their content.

Founded by Lwazi Nonyukela, Hip-Hop 411 is a black owned production agency which produces content for television in this case ones that idolize the genre. From what 411 suggests, they set out to be trendsetters with news and other updates on your favourite stars.

Some celebs the brand promote include Cassper Nyovest, Nasty C, A-Reece and so forth.

Hip-Hop 411 is said to be folded under Pulse TV but with the amount of content you'd see here you'd expect more but it's not like PremiumFree TV does duplications as they rather pull an eExtra and cram as much content onto one channel as opposed launching a channel with a similar concept.

Review: Openview Competitor Is The Linear Version To Netflix

Netflix is an American based streaming service which has been dominating the global market for the past decade with shows like Stranger Things, Umbrella Academy, The Crown, Blood & Water, He-Man and the Oddballs but that's not why I compare it to PremiumFree TV.

PremiumFree TV is an African based free to view platform taking on the likes of eMedia Investments' Openview platform that basically does what I found common with Netflix - being original.

I mean you won't find any of SABC or e.tv's channels sitting on there even something as educational as Mindset is not sitting on the platform only brands like Sports Connect, Kiddiwinks, Romanza and True African brands that not a lot of people are familiar with.

 

 

PremiumFree is one of the only free-to-air brands in South Africa to offer a mobile app as South Africa as eMedia Investments has yet to launch such for the Openview platform but will likely leverage eVOD for a portion of that platform.

Back so soon

Just as you thought ePlesier would balance out the load of repeats amongst channels eMedia proved otherwise as a repeat of Begeertes makes its way to eExtra as a replacement to the third season of Doodsondes with fourth coming in August.

 

Ferhat a cold-blooded, emotionless and cruel man who is a shooter for his uncle and has a wounded past.Asli, is a naive female doctor who wishes to serve humanity. An unforgettable love will be experienced with these two contrasting characters.

The series airs 10 June at 11:30 on weekdays unfortunately only Openview and StarSat consumers will be able to view this content while DStv customers are welcome to stream it on eVOD.

An untimely fate

TLNovelas has picked up rights to the comedy drama No One Like You which is based on the Chilean drama Amores De Mercado which Telemundo also did a remake known as Quien Es Quien (If Only I Were You).

 

 

TLNovelas had also confirmed the launches of the second and final instalment of the Overcoming franchise Overcoming Heartbreak and Overcoming The Past but from the looks of it being viewers will have to wait a while longer for the series No One Like You.

Antonio, who currently works as a waiter, is known by everyone in the neighborhood as Toño. He likes to sing, dance and enjoy life. He dropped out of high school and likes to seduce women, without even thinking about falling in love with one of them and settling down. Toño goes buy a piece of costume jewelry as a birthday present for his mother. As he crosses an avenue, he stops for a moment and is strongly impressed to find a man who looks just like him. The man (Ricardo) looks at him just as impressed and none of them hears the horn of a speeding van that manages to avoid Toño but not Ricardo who is knocked unconscious. Toño is shocked as an ambulance arrives and takes the man away.

From this moment on, Ricardo's and Toño's lives utterly change, turning their world upside down.

No One Like You airs July 2nd at 16:30 CAT.

[Breaking News| RSA] Analogue Tv Hits Its Last Days In South Africa!

The Ministry of Communications and Digital Technologies has announced that together with broadcasters, it has started with the phased switch-off of analogue television transmitters in the Free State.

This follows President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement during the State of the Nation Address last month that the phased switch-off of analogue TV transmitters would begin this month.

The department said it is anticipated that this process, which will be done on a province-by-province basis, will be completed by the end of March 2022.

On Monday the analogue signal was switched off in Boesmanskop and surrounding towns in the Xhariep District Municipality, the department said. This will be followed by Ladybrand and surrounding towns on Tuesday.

“The switch-off in each province will be systematic and in phases, moving from one analogue transmitter coverage area to the other, until all district municipalities within the province are completed,” the department said.

The department is working with provincial governments and district municipalities to recruit local installers of government-subsided digital decoders to accelerate the implementation of the broadcasting digital migration.

This will, in turn, free up previous high-demand spectrum for use by mobile operators, resulting in better networks and cheaper mobile data for South Africans.

Analogue TV switch-off dates
The analogue TV switch-off dates for each province is shown below.

Free State – March 2021
Northern Cape – April 2021
North West – May 2021
Mpumalanga – May 2021
Eastern Cape – May 2021
Kwa-Zulu Natal – July 2021
Western Cape – November 2021
Limpopo – December 2021
Gauteng – January 2022

Note that this timeline is an estimate and the department will provide further detail in future.

Installing and subsiding decoders
This switch-off of analogue television transmitters follows a reviewed implementation process initiated.

You can visit your local post office to apply for a STB or go to your other branches and purchase either a OpenView, Starsat, DStv and soon PremiumFree decoder.

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PremiumFree Satellite TV Launches From May As A Rival To OpenView

New PremiumFree satellite TV service to take on DStv and Openview in South Africa
AfricaXP will expand its free-to-air satellite TV service, PremiumFree, to millions of satellite dishes in South Africa on 1 May 2021.

AfricaXP is a digital content distributor and themed linear channel creator which is focussed on Africa.

Through its PremiumFree service it aims to become the default multichannel satellite TV offering on the continent.

PremiumFree is already offering free-to-air satellite TV services in many African countries through two Eutelsat satellites.

In 2020 AfricaXP signed multi-year agreements with Eutelsat Communications for Ku-band capacity on two Eutelsat satellites, positioned at 16° East and 7° East.

This capacity enabled AfricaXP to extend the reach of its PremiumFree service from only West Africa to Eastern and Southern Africa.

AfricaXP is now further extending the reach of PremiumFree through a partnership with Intelsat IS-20 which covers most of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Many South African households have IS-20 aligned dishes connected to “closed” decoders that lock out other channels.

These viewers could now buy any low-cost free to air decoder and connect it to their LNB cable coming from the dish to receive the PremiumFree channels.

The 18 channels that will be available on PremiumFree TV are:

BongoTV: Tanzanian Swahili movies.

True African: A mixed-genre of African channel that has movies, lifestyle shows, factual reality and music content, and sports and soaps. Formerly available on OpenView and once a product of eMedia Investments.

Africawood Blockbusters: A variety of films from across the African continent.

fresh: A lifestyle and reality show channel.

Limelight: Family, action and kid movies.

Romanza+ Africa: A telenovela channel.

LOL Africa: A comedy channel with short-form humourous content, funny videos and sitcoms.

Sports Connect: Sports magazine shows, profile series, documentaries and sports news channel.

Kiddiwinks: A toddler channel aimed at pre-school viewers.

Pulse: An African youth and music channel.

Afriwood Series: African soaps and drama series.

Riverwood: Kenyan movies and series.

RPM: A motoring and motorsports channel.

LifeTV: A factual channel covering crime and investigation programming, disasters and culture.

DIVA: Entertainment news, fashion, gossip, music, reality, dating shows and makeovers. It could be the one operated by NBCUniversal International.

Gospellife: A mixed-genre Christian values channel.

Fight Night: A mixed martial arts and boxing channel.

synapse: An e-gaming channel.

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- Doodsondes returns for another season on e.tv
- When will Star Plus and Star Life on DStv, Openview and StarTimes (Starsat) adapt to the Utsav branding?
- SABC 3 joins in the telenovela antics with The Emmy Awarded Series, Orphan Of The Nation
- SABC to launch a streaming service
- Current status of TV licence
- Government enforcing local quota on streaming platforms