New Channel Alert: ST Kids Plus Coming Soon To StarTimes And StarSat Platforms Across Africa

Last month,  StarTimes added ST Toons as a brand new children's channel to their platforms. Serving as a spinoff to the current ST Kids channel, ST Toons incorporates the Nicktoons format airing older shows from ST Kids with dubs in the mix.

Oddly enough, StarTimes looks to launch a third children's channel by April 15th, ST Kids Plus. From what we can gather most of the content already seen on both ST Kids and ST Toons will be added to the lineup with selection of content in local languages.

The languages include English, Swahili, Portuguese and French with the channel set to rollout in 30 African countries. It is looking to position itself as a multilingual children's channel offering high quality children's content for viewers aged 6-12.

ST Kids Plus will launch on April 15th on channel 352 on DTT and 311 on DTH to all Basic and Super customers. 

As some readers are aware, StarSat hasn't launched ST Toons for consumers in South Africa and from the looks of things ST Kids Plus. Considering that the ownership of StarSat in SA varies with other countries it wouldn't surprising if it didn't launch. 

StarTimes in ROA is packaged differently from South Africa this is due to the pay-tv companies voting rights being limited to 20%. In these markets, StarTimes whose rates match that of MultiChoice also offer a range of sport and premium entertainment. 

New Channel Alert: ST Toons Coming Soon To StarTimes Platforms Across Africa Later This Month

After relaunching ST Movies on their platforms, StarTimes will be expanding the kiddies lineup with the addition of a second kids channel, ST Toons. With ST Kids inheriting the Nickelodeon DNA ST Toons will lean more onto Nicktoons. 

According to StarTimes, ST Toons will be a comprehensive cartoon channel covering Chinese, international and African programming. It would serve as a competitor to existing players such as eToonz and Play Room both of which are based in South Africa. 

Third party shows set to form part of the lineup include SpongeBob SquarePants, Totally Spies!, Power Rangers and Transformers. Still no word on the local portion coming to ST Toons if we had to guess they'll probably dub select shows in local languages. 

ST Toons will launch on channel 310 on DTH and 351 on DTT or least from what African officials mention. It will be available from the Basic package which serves as the African counterpart of Max with no word on a package for StarSat consumers in South Africa.

ST Toons will join other children's channels such as ST Kids, Baby TV, Da Vinci, Kartoon Channel, Toonami, Boing and CBeebies.