FAQ On ID Xtra Africa

On Tuesday, 5 January 2016, a new high-quality mystery and suspense channel, ID Xtra will replace the current crime and investigation channel m Discovery ID on DStv channel 171. ID Xtra will be available to DStv Premium, Extra and Compact customers.

Featuring a selection of captivating content never before seen on DStv, ID Xtra will welcome a host of new faces including Emmy Award-winning talk show host Jerry Springer and his series Tabloid (weekdays, 8:20pm) which delves into the most shocking and bizarre stories to have made headlines in America.
This January alone, viewers can look forward to several brand new shows including; Do Not Disturb: Hotel Horrors (Saturday 9 January, 10pm) the intriguing series that goes behind closed doors to uncover the shocking crimes that happened inside hotels; Bad Blood (Sunday 24 January, 10pm) follows families driven apart by heinous crimes as they come together for the first time; and Mansions & Murders (Monday 11 January, 10:50pm) re-enacts the terrible crimes involving wealthy mansion dwellers.

FAQs

What changes are you making to the Discovery channels? 
On Tuesday, 5 January 2016, a new high-quality mystery and suspense channel, ID Xtra will replace the current crime and investigation channel Discovery ID on DStv channel 171. 

Why are you closing Discovery ID?
ID Xtra is a new and more dramatic version of Discovery ID which showcases the best in gripping stories and dramatic reconstructions of everyday people behaving badly, all filmed in a contemporary and stylish format.

What will happen to my PVR recordings after Discovery ID is terminated?
Any recordings of shows from Discovery ID will remain on your PVR’s Personal Recordings until you delete them, so they will still be available for you to watch, even after the channels terminate.

What kind of programming will I see on ID Xtra?
ID Xtra will feature a selection of captivating content never before seen on DStv. The channel will welcome a host of new faces including Emmy Award-winning talk show host Jerry Springer and his series Tabloid (weekdays at 8:20pm) which delves into the most shocking and bizarre stories to have made headlines in America.

This January alone, viewers can look forward to several brand new shows including; Do Not Disturb: Hotel Horrors (Saturday 9 January at 10pm) the intriguing series that goes behind closed doors to uncover the shocking crimes that happened inside hotels; Bad Blood (Sunday 24 January at 10pm) follows families driven apart by heinous crimes as they come together for the first time; and Mansions & Murders (Monday 11 January at 10:50pm) re-enacts the terrible crimes involving wealthy mansion dwellers.

Discovery Family Brand Manifesto For African Viewers

Brand Proposition
Always engaging, always enriching and always entertaining, Discovery Family is the destination that brings the whole family together.

Premium programming for the whole family with glossy documentaries about the world we live in and beyond; from awesome space adventures to crazy experiments of popular science. Be transfixed by the big cats of Africa and the stories of animals that need rescuing or medical help. But you can also sit back and be entertained by hilarious clip based shows. Plus  each morning there is a dedicated kids block to keep the little ones happy. It’s learning in the Discovery Way, always fun, inclusive and fascinating. 

WHATEVER THE TIME OF DAY DISCOVERY FAMILY IS A  SAFE PLACE, CREATING MEMORABLE MOMENTS THAT  INSPIRE CONVERSATION AWAY FROM THE TV BOX.

Quality TV for the whole family

Brand Values
EDUCATIONAL 
Family is a fun, safe place to experience and absorb the wonders of the world around us. Its learning but in the Discovery Way.

ENTERTAINING 
Programming designed to uplift and amuse the family and bring laughter into the home.

ENRICHING 
Escape with the best handpicked programming from Discovery’s portfolio certain to leave you and your family with plenty to talk about.

INCLUSIVE 
Fresh, entertaining and impactful storytelling for the whole family to relax and watch together, including Rocky the Dog.

Tone of voice
Fun
Warm
Inspiring
Upbeat

We are:
Safe
Educational
Inclusive
Family Friendly

We are not:
Boring
Risky
Controversial
Dark

How we are different
The fun, educational TV destination for the whole family that inspires and generates conversation. 

Audience
“The family” - Mum and Dad, 2 children aged 6 and 12 and Rocky the dog

MUM
Mum’s favourite time is when all the family is together; whether it’s enjoying a family day out or sitting down and watching enriching television.

DAD
Dad relaxes by watching sport and hanging out with his friends. Family time is very important and nothing beats sitting down with his children and learning about his favourite passions by watching space, engineering and clip shows.

SAM
Sam is 12 years old and enjoys gaming and playing football with his friends. He is inquisitive, a fan of magic and likes inventing new things.

EMILY
Emily is 6 years old and is fascinated by animal’s especially cute pets. She loves Doki and learning about his travels around the world and being entertained with the rest of the family whilst watching Too Cute.

ROCKY
Rocky the dog loves being part of the family but hates being alone. When he is not dreaming about chasing the family cat or running through open fields he can be found wagging his tail while watching his fellow canines on Dog TV.

Elevator Pitch
Discovery Family, the brand new channel with something  for every member of the family whatever the time of day. A place packed with fun facts, big cats, cute pets, outrageous experiments, glossy documentaries and family stories. There is even a dedicated kid’s block to keep the little ones happy. 

Always a safe place to experience new and exciting stuff that creates memorable moments that inspires conversation away from the television.

EVERYONE GATHER ROUND FOR DISCOVERY FAMILY.

Find it on DStv channel 136

M-Net Streamlines And Sharpens Some Of Its Top-Notch Channel On DStv

How do you find the freshest and biggest international movies and series on DStv Premium? If you’re a Compact customer, would you prefer to watch more of M-Net’s channels in High Definition?
 
VUZU AMP finds a new home on DStv channel 103
 
It will now be as easy as 1-2-3 to flick to the freshest and best scripted series from Hollywood. The popular VUZU AMP channel is relocating to channel 103 on DStv Premium (from channel 114). This means that VUZU AMP will now be in the same neighbourhood as the ever-popular M-Net (channel 101) and M-Net Edge (channel 102). 
 
M-Net 101 will continue to bring the biggest and best family friendly blockbuster international series to our screens; M-Net Edge (channel 102) will still cater for connoisseurs with a taste for highly acclaimed and risqué content; and VUZU AMP (channel 103) will feature the international series like Power, Ballers and Basketball Wives for the forever young alongside its sizzling local productions.
 
“M-Net’s slate of up-to-date series from Hollywood has been spread across M-Net, M-Net Edge and VUZU AMP on DStv Premium for a while and it makes perfect sense to present these three channels to our viewers as a cluster in this new sequence,” says M-Net CEO Yolisa Phahle. “We will also work harder to make sure that viewers know which channel a series will be broadcast on - some of our viewers have indicated that they don’t always know whether a series will be on M-Net or VUZU AMP. We would like to fix that.”
 
Two more HD channels for DStv Compact viewers
 
The M-Net Channels also have great news for DStv Compact customers: M-Net City (DStv channel 115) and M-Net Movies Action (DStv channel 110) will now be in High Definition.
 
M-Net Movies channels streamlined
 
With VUZU AMP moving to channel 103, the M-Net Movies channels will now occupy channels 104 to 111. The number of channels will be reduced from nine to seven tightly curated channels – M-Net Movies has reduced the number of older library movies in the schedule, to keep the movie offering new and fresh.
 
Big news within the new M-Net Movies channel offering is the brand new, feel-good addition of M-Net Movies Smile, which will offer chuckles for the entire family as well as the revamp of M-Net Movies Showcase.
 
The addition of M-Net Movies Smile (DStv channel 104) and the revamp of M-Net Movies Showcase (DStv channel 108) means that three of the existing movie channels will no longer exist – M-Net Movies Comedy (currently on DStv channel 104), M-Net Movies Family (currently on DStv channel 105) and M-Net Movies Romance (currently on DStv channel 107). 
 
Viewers can also look forward to more seasonal pop-up channels, like the recent M-Net Movies Blackout channel and last year’s massively successful M-Net Movies Star Wars pop-up channel. 
 
A quick glance at the M-Net Movies channel cluster, as of Friday, 1 July:
·      M-Net Movies Premiere (which was on channel 103 until VUZU AMP’s arrival) - channel 104 on DStv Premium. M-Net Movies Premiere simply has a new address. It will continue to bring you the latest, biggest and best premiere movies from Hollywood – anything from Kevin Hart comedies to Oscar-winning dramas.
·      M-Net Movies Smile - channel 105 on DStv Premium.  As the name signals, this is the channel guaranteed to make you show your pearly whites. Everyone who’s young at heart can look forward to fantastic animated and family-friendly films. Then, once the kids have gone to bed, the grown-ups can enjoy sidesplitting comedy with the likes of Adam Sandler or Melissa McCarthy.
·      M-Net Movies Action + - channel 106 on DStv Premium. The biggest, most explosive action movies will still be on M-Net Movies Action+. Watch Vin Diesel, Keanu Reeves and all the action heroes save humanity from all kinds of evil.
·      M-Net Movies Showcase - channel 107 on DStv Premium. Apart from being able to indulge this channel’s usual host of lovely festivals, box sets and franchise specials and watch an A-list, blockbuster film that previously premiered on Sunday nights every night in prime time, this will now also be the go-to destination for all romantics that want to be swept away by love stories and enchanting storytelling.
·      M-Net Movies Action – channel 110 on DStv Compact and DStv Premium.  All the action that blows you away, but now in HD!
·      M-Net Movies Stars – channel 111 on DStv Compact and DStv Premium.  You can continue to enjoy the company of Hollywood’s A-list stars in exactly the same way as before.
·      M-Net Movies Zone – channel 139 on DStv Family, Access, Compact, Premium and GOtv. Movie Zone lovers across the different DStv packages will not be affected at all.
 
For detailed schedules for the M-Net channels, go to DStv.com.
 
ENDS
Channel name
Current channel no
New channel number
VUZU AMP
114
103
M-Net Movies Premiere
103
104
M-Net Movies Smile
brand new channel
105
M-Net Movies Action+
106
106 – no change
M-Net Movies Showcase
108
107
M-Net Movies Action
110
110 – now in HD
M-Net Movies Stars
111
111 – no change
M-Net City
115
115 – now in HD
 M-Net Movies Zone
139
139 – no change
M-Net Movies Comedy
104
Terminated (content now found on M-Net Movies Smile)
M-Net Movies Family
105
Terminated (content now found on M-Net Movies Smile)
M-Net Movies Romance
107
Terminated (content now found on M-Net Movies Showcase)
 

Marvel's Avengers Are Back For Brand New Season Titled Ultron Revolution But That's Not All Everyone's Favorite Undercover Spy K.C. Cooper Is Back In An All New Season, You Can Find This And More On Disney XD Africa From July 2016

MARVEL AVENGERS: ULTRON REVOLUTION
Season premiere
Weekends from Saturday 2nd July at 08:10

Marvel’s Avengers are back on Disney XD this month with a brand new season and a new name. Marvel Avengers: Ultron Revolution, the third season to feature the legendary team of superheroes, launches on weekends from Saturday 2nd July at 08:10.

In the first episode, entitled Adapting to Change, (Saturday 2nd July at 08:10) the Avengers learn what it's like to work as a team again and battle A.I.M.'s latest weapon - a new and improved Super Adaptoid developed by the Scientist Supreme.

Premiere episodes of Marvel Avengers: Ultron Revolution air on Disney XD on weekends until Sunday 24th July at 08:10 SAST.

K.C. UNDERCOVER
Season two premiere
Monday 18th to Friday 22nd July at 16:25

Young undercover spy K.C. Cooper also returns to Disney XD this month, as season two launches on Monday 18th July at 16:25 with a double episode length special.

Zendaya stars as 16 year old K.C, who learns her parents are spies and expect her to be one too. So she must cope with life as an agent as well as the problems and pitfalls of teenage life. In the double episode length special entitled Coopers Re-Activated (Monday 18th July at 16:25), having left The Organization, KC decides to raise her profile at school by being the DJ at the school dance. What’s more, The Jackal has escaped and wants revenge on The Coopers. Can they help recapture him?

Season two premiere episodes of K.C. Undercover air from Monday 18th to Friday 22nd July at 16:25 on Disney XD.

BREAKFAST BLOCK
Programming event
Weekdays from 18th July at 06:50

As the kids go back to school there’s a brand new morning block on Disney XD, on weekdays from 06:50. From 18th July, Disney XD’s Breakfast Block has some of our top animated series from 06:50. This great entertainment includes brand new episodes of Camp Lakebottom which premieres at 07:40. In the episode Messie Bessie/Nanny Num Nums (Monday 18th July), McGee rescues friends trapped in Sawyer’s ghost car, Betty. The kids meet Nanny Num Nums who seems like fun, until they realise that she is after kids' youth.

Enjoy our Breakfast Block every weekday morning from Monday 18th July at 06:50.

TOTAL RANDOMNESS
Daily throughout July at 14:40

Total Randomness continues this month, with a block of shows featuring some of Disney XD’s favourite characters every day throughout July at 14:40.

Catch great episodes including K.C. Undercover, Star vs the Forces of Evil, Penn Zero and Lab Rats in this fun-filled block. It starts each day with a brand new episode of The 7D, kicking off three hours of great entertainment from 14:40. In one of these premiere episodes, Say Pest to the Dress (Monday 4th July at 14:40) Lord Starchbottom calls upon the 7D to help with a pest infestation in the Queen's wardrobe.

Have a totally random time with our great programming block every day during July at 14:40.

Disney Channel Africa Is Celebrating Its 100th Disney Channel Original Movie In July 2016 And Alex & Co Is Back For Season 2 And More

BACKSTAGE
Premiere episodes
Weekdays from Monday 18th July at 17:00

Our great new series Backstage continues on Disney Channel this month, with premiere episodes on weekdays from Monday 18th July at 17:00.

This lively docu-drama chronicles the lives of a group of 12 outstandingly talented teenagers as they live through the highs and lows of attending the prestigious Keaton School of the Arts. Follow them throughout the academic year as their experiences range from worry and disappointment to new friendships and crowning achievements.

In the episode entitled Restart (Monday 18th July at 17:00) school is back in session but nothing is what it was before the break. New musical partnerships, changing dynamics in the dance stream and missing faces in the halls have all of Keaton’s students struggling to cope.

Premiere episodes of Backstage air on weekdays from Monday 18th July at 17:00 on Disney Channel.

DISNEY’S HOLIDAY CAMP
Programming event
Weekdays Monday 4th to Friday 15th July at 08:10

Celebrate the school holidays with Disney's Holiday Camp which is open on weekdays from Monday 4th to Friday 15th July at 08:10.

Tune in for all your favourite shows including Liv and Maddie, Jessie, Austin & Ally. What’s more the block will start off with premiere episodes of new Disney Channel series Bunk'd! In the first of this month’s epsiodes, Waka, Waka, Waka! (Monday 4th July at 08:10) Ravi and Tiffany get video proof that the Kikiwaka exists. Meanwhile, Emma and Lou try to outsell Hazel at the Kikiwaka Day Festival.

The Disney Holiday Camp is open for summer entertainment on weekdays from Monday 4th to Friday 15th July at 08:10 on Disney Channel.

THANK DISNEY IT’S THURSDAY
Premiere episodes
Every Thursday throughout July from 17:25

Thursdays are big days on Disney Channel in July as Thank Disney it’s Thursday continues. The weekly block is packed with premieres from 17:25 to 19:05.

These entertainment extravaganzas contain premiere episodes of Alex & Co, Girl Meets World, Liv and Maddie and the season two launch of Binny and the Ghost.

In the episode of Girl Meets World (Thursday 14th July at 17:50) entitled Girl Meets I Am Farkle, when Farkle scores at genius levels in an IQ and aptitude test it also leads to him being tested for Asperger’s syndrome. As a result the friends learn more about this condition.

Don’t miss old favourites and premiere episodes on Thursdays in July from 17:25 on Disney Channel.

ALEX & CO
Season two premiere
Thursdays from 7th July at 17:25

In season two of Alex & Co, which premieres on Thursday 7th July at 17:25, summer is over.

Alex's parents announce that he will have to move to America! Alex isn't happy about this at all, and together with Joe and his friends tries his best to stay.

Watch these adventures on Disney Channel as part of Thank Disney It's Thursday from the 7th July at 17:25!

BINNY AND THE GHOST
Season two premiere
Thursdays from 7th July at 18:40

Popular series Binny and the Ghost returns to Disney Channel this month, with the launch of season two on Thursdays from 7th July at 18:40.

When 13 year old Binny's family moves to an old house in Berlin, she discovers an unexpected and unwanted room-mate. He’s Melchior, ghost of a 14 year old boy born in 1899!

Season two of Binnny and the Ghost launches in Thank Disney It’s Thursday at 18:40.

GRAVITY FALLS: BETWEEN THE PINES
Premiere special
Thursday 21st July at 19:05

Love Gravity Falls? Then don't miss the special, Between the Pines (Thursday 21st July at 19:05).

Fans can discover exclusive information and secrets about Gravity Falls in this fascinating behind-the-scenes documentary which features an interview with creator Alex Hirsch, who delves into the personalities of the characters and reveals hidden details in the show. Fans can discover fascinating exclusive information and secrets about the show.

Gravity Falls: Between the Pines will be airing as part of the Thank Disney it's Thursday (21st July at 19:05).

100th DISNEY CHANNEL ORIGINAL MOVIE!
Programming event

In the run up to the premiere of the 100th Disney Channel Original Movie later this year, Disney Channel is airing all the previous 99 DCOMs over weekends, starting in July.

The 100th DCOM is the new version of Adventures in Babysitting, which features Disney stars Sabrina Carpenter (Girl Meets World) and Sofia Carson (Austin & Ally, Disney’s Descendants).

The previous DCOMs are a feast of fun, including fabulous films like High School Musical (Friday 22nd July at 5.25pm) and Teen Beach Movie (Saturday 9th July at 10:40), as well as the more recent Disney’s Descendants (Friday 8th at 5.25pm).

Don't miss your favourite Disney Channel Original Movies airing every weekend throughout July!