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.
