New Channel Alert: Trace Africa And Trace Mziki To (Re)launch On StarSat In South Africa And StarTimes In The Rest Of Africa

During the month, StarSat allocated four additional channels on their platform, FilmBox Action (general entertainment), CBS Reality (factual), CBS Justice (crime) and Kartoon Channel (kids) and these came as replacements to some of the deleted channels.

Shortly after the additions, the pay-tv company announced plans to introduce more channels in the second quarter of the year and as seen across their platforms Trace Africa and Mziki will be the next addition to the platform from the 1st of May.

Trace Africa is a channel dedicated to playing and showcasing music of Africa’s top artists and genres including Afro-pop, coupé-décalé, Kwaito house, Afro-trap, makossa, and ndombolo through radio and live concert events.

Trace Mziki is true to that motto and offers the hottest videos from the best East-african artists. Afro-pop, Afro-beat, Hip-hop, R&B, Ragga, Dancehall, Bongo Flava, Afro-fusion, Afro-trap…are some of the music genres broadcast on this channel.

The channels are owned by TRP who supply Trace Urban, Trace Gospel, Trace Naija and Trace Toca to various African broadcasters with MultiChoice's DStv harvesting most channels in a seperate agreement.

Trace Africa was added on the platform back in 2017 and canned the following year alongside music brands, KISS and Magic. If one had to guess these two could be their way of making up for the latter alongside SA based brands, Soul Music and on Openview, SA Music.

As advised, Trace Africa and Trace Mziki will rollout from 1st May we assume that one of the channels,Trace Africa will be one to be viewed in most African regions as Trace Mziki is based in East Africa.

Brand New Music Channel, TRACE Africa, And Two New Radio Stations Launch On DStv

MultiChoice is set to boost its music and audio offering this September with the launch of a brand new music channel and the addition of two new radio stations.

TRACE Africa is set to hit DStv screens on 1 September 2016, as a localised music channel that’ll offer DStv customers exclusive music videos and documentaries from established and emerging Southern African artists. The channel will serve as the premier destination for Southern African music lovers, featuring the best contemporary hits from Kwaito, House, Coupé-Décalé, Afro-pop, Rumba to Ndombolo.

TRACE Africa (DStv channel 326) will sit along TRACE Urban (DStv channel 325) and replace TRACE Sport Stars (currently on DStv channel 188), which will no longer air on DStv from 30 August 2016. TRACE Africa will be available to DStv Premium, Extra, Compact and Family customers in South Africa.

The new radio stations being added to the DStv audio package are Channel 7 FM (DStv channel 825), a Namibian-based non-denominational Christian community radio station which will launch on 1 September 2016 and Radio Islam (DStv channel 826), an Islamic cultural, award-winning community radio station which will launch on 15 September 2016. The two radio stations will be available to DStv Premium, Extra, Compact, Family, Access and EasyView customers in South Africa.

For more information, visit DStv.com.