September 2020 On Nick Jr Africa | Paw Patrol Festival | New Episodes

READY RACE RESCUE STUNT
NEW EPISODE #996 | OTHER EPISODES S2 #203; S3 #323; S4 #414; S5 #503, #514; S6 #601, #602, #605
996 Ready, Race, Rescue
It's the Adventure Bay 500! The pups are ready to be the pit crew for their race hero, The Whoosh! When the legendary racer is unable to drive in the championship race, he calls on Marshall to take the wheel and race in his place!
SATURDAY 5 AND SUNDAY 6 SEPTEMBER
AT 11:00 WAT / 12:00 CAT / 13:00 EAT

RUSTY RIVETS
BRAND NEW EPISODES!
SEASON 3 #313, #315-#326
When there's a job to do and stakes are high, ten year old Rusty Rivets along with best bud Ruby invents his way out of every jam by repurposing parts and objects into the wildest, coolest most awesome contraptions ever!
EVERY DAY FROM 7 TO 19 SEPTEMBER
AT 15:45 WAT / 16:45 CAT / 17:45 EAT

PAW PATROL: MIGHTY PUPS
PREMIERE MARATHON!
NEW EPISODE: S7 #701 | OTHER EPISODES: S6 #609, #612, #615, #618, #624
701A Mighty Pups Charged Up: Pups Stop a Humdinger Horde - The Mighty Pups have to save the day when Harold makes a cloning machine!
701B Mighty Pups Charged Up: Pups Save a Mighty Lighthouse - Harold uses his super powers to turn Cap'n Turbot's lighthouse into a rocket! The Mighty Pups need to Charge Up and stop him!
SATURDAY 12 AND SUNDAY 13 SEPTEMBER AT 11:00 WAT / 12:00 CAT / 13:00 EAT

TOP WING
BRAND NEW EPISODES!
SEASON 2 #208, #209, #211-#216, #218-#226
Top Wing is an action adventure preschool series that follows a team of eager young birds training at the Top Wing Academy.
EVERY DAY FROM 14 TO 4 OCTOBER
AT 15:05 WAT / 16:05 CAT / 17:05 EAT

DINO STUNT
NEW EPISODE: PAW Patrol S7 #706 Dino Rescue: Pups and the Lost Dino Eggs | Other Eps: PAW Patrol S2 #226; Blaze and the Monster Machines S2 #215; S3 #303; Rusty Rivets S2 #218a, S3 #301, #309b; Shimmer and Shine S1#104; Peppa Pig S1#138, S2#233
Enjoy the best Dino episodes of your NickJR favorites along with the premiere episode of Paw Patrol Dino Rescue: Pups and the Lost Dino Eggs!
When a lost world of Dinosaurs is discovered, Mayor Humdinger wants to take Dino Eggs back to Foggy Bottom but along the way a baby Brachiosaurus ends up in Dino sized trouble! The Pups are ready for a Dino Rescue!
SATURDAY 19 AND SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER AT 11:00 WAT / 12:00 CAT / 13:00 EAT

BUBBLE GUPPIES
BRAND NEW EPISODES!
SEASON 5 #506-#513
Bubble Guppies Season 5 features brand new, blockbuster-sized adventures… and, a new guppy! Zooli, a spunky, smart animal expert, joins these fishtailed friends for epic, underwater adventures.
EVERY DAY FROM 21 TO 27 SEPTEMBER
AT 10:00 WAT / 11:00 CAT / 12:00 EAT

PAW PATROL
SPECIAL EPISODES STUNT
NEW EPISODE: S7 #707 | OTHER EPISODES: S4 #404, #407, #416, #422, #426; S5 #518; S7 #706
Enjoy the best special Sea Patrol and Mission Paw episodes of Paw Patrol with the premiere Dino Rescue episode (707)!
Dino Rescue: Pups Save a Pterodactyl
When Maverick the daredevil Pterodactyl takes a tumble and hurts his wing, the pups are there for a sky high Dino Rescue!
Dino Rescue: Pups and the Big Rumble
A volcano is erupting, threatening the Dino Wilds! It's all paws on deck for a massive Dino Rescue!
SATURDAY 26 AND SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER AT 11:00 WAT / 12:00 CAT / 13:00 EAT

September 2020 On Nickelodeon Africa | The Substitute | It's Pony | New Episodes

THE SUBSTITUTE
NEW SHOW | EPS 101-112
The Substitute is a hidden camera prank show, where
SEASON
celebrities are transformed by a team of special effects artists to go undercover as substitute teachers to surprise a class of unsuspecting students.
Substituting the likes of Jace Norman, John Cena, Jojo Siwa and many, many more!
WEEKENDS 5 SEPTEMBER TO 11 OCTOBER AT 19:20

IT'S PONY
BRAND NEW SHOW!
SEASON 1 | EPISODES 101-110
WEEKDAYS 14 SEPTEMBER TO 2 OCTOBER AT 16:15 ENCORE: SAME NIGHT AT 19:00
A normal girl's life is made extraordinary by her best friend - an unpredictable, outrageous, and hilarious talking pony. No matter the complications he causes, Annie knows that everything is better when Pony is around.

FOR SOUTH AFRICA ONLY:
JUST ADD MAGIC
NEW EPISODES: 301-311
ENCORE: SAME NIGHT AT 20:40
WEEKDAYS FROM 7 TO 18 SEPTEMBER AT 16:40
Kelly Quinn and her two best friends, Darbie and Hannah, find Kelly's grandmother's cookbook in the attic and discover some strange recipes. They soon begin to realize
SEASON #3 WEEKDAYS FROM 7 TO 18 SEP AT 16:40

NOOBEES
NEW EPISODES: 201-234
SEASON #2 DAILY FROM 28 SEPTEMBER TO 31 OCTOBER AT 06:00
Gameover travels to Avatar City to begin his plan for revenge against Silvia, choosing Athina and Rocco. Silvia leaves the Noobees and while playing a game with David, Athina changes his personality, initiating the Gameover plan.

FOR THE REST OF AFRICA:
PAW PATROL
EVERY DAY 31 AUGUST TO 8 SEPTEMBER 04:45 WAT / 05:45 CAT / 06:45 EAT
NEW EPISODES: 602,614,616-620,622,624
PAW Patrol is a CG action adventure preschool series starring a pack of six heroic puppies led by a tech savvy 10 year old boy named Ryder.

BUBBLE GUPPIES
EVERY DAY 7 TO 19 SEPTEMBER AT 04:00 WAT / 05:00 CAT / 06:00 EAT 

NEW EPISODES: 501-513

Jump into this underwater classroom with Molly, Gil and their fishtailed friends. Preschoolers can learn school- readiness skills like science, math, literacy and more through songs, dances, and laughs!

ESPN Classic, The Former DStv Channel

THE HISTORY OF A FORMER DSTV CHANNEL
ESPN Classic is an American multinational pay television network that is owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (which owns a controlling 80% stake) and Hearst Communications (which owns 20%).

The channel was originally launched as the Classic Sports Network in 1995, and was acquired by ESPN in 1997. The network originally focused on carrying classic sporting events, other programs and documentaries, and live specials (such as the Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony) focusing on sports history.

By the 2010s, due to the increasing number of sport-, league-, and college conference-specific networks that had assumed rights to the archive content that was historically aired by ESPN Classic, a larger amount of programming was devoted to archive content whose rights were owned by ESPN outright, reruns of recent events from ESPN's networks, as well as ESPN original documentaries, and overflow coverage of events from other ESPN networks.

In 2014, ESPN began to phase out ESPN Classic as a linear service, and transition it to a branded video on-demand offering. A number of major providers, such as AT&T, Altice USA, Comcast, and Verizon Fios dropped ESPN Classic in the years that followed. Due to this change in format, ESPN News and ESPN's digital platforms have supplanted its role as an overflow service.

The channel was available across all packages on DStv before it shuttered down.

ESPN Returning To DStv?

There's rumors surfacing that the ESPN will make a comeback to DStv after being scrapped from the platform and Africa back in 2013.

ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American multinational basic cable sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%). The channel can also be found on StarSat in South Africa and StarTimes in the rest of Africa.

ESPN broadcasts also airs a variety of sports highlight, talk, and documentary- styled shows including: F1, NRL, Olympics, MMA, NBA G League, Tennis, esports, Cycling, and more.

According to one viewer, they saw an ad  stating that ESPN will launch on channel 218 with ESPN 2 launching on channel 219. When it comes to packages my guess would be ESPN will be made available on Compact+, Compact or Family with ESPN 2 being Access and if it's still an option Easyview.

DreamWorks To Be Added On StarSat In August

StarTimes Media is set to grow the kiddies lineup in the the month of August or September. The platform is set to add DreamWorks Channel which ran exclusively on Kwesé TV in Africa before it shuttered down.

DreamWorks Channel, launched back in 2015 internationally the channel carries original programming which was funded by other platforms such as Netflix, Amazon and Nickelodeon.

According to the info provided the channel will air All Hail King Julien, The Adventures Of Puss In Boots, Dawn Of The Croods, DreamWorks Dragons and all these series have already aired on Netflix, Showmax, Amazon, e.tv and eToonz.

DreamWorks Channel is owned by NBCUniversal so it's not surprising that the content on this channel are repeats from other platforms even though it's their own programming.

NBCUniversal owns Telemundo, Universal, AfricaNews, Studio Universal, CNBC and now has DreamWorks Channel. What's funny is Studio Universal is what you call a eMovies repeats channel.

DreamWorks Channel kind of seems like a disappointment if you ask me unless they plot to get the running exclusively on that channel before anywhere else in Africa. Right now this channel has a large lineup of shows which have been viewable in Africa for a long time now and I don't see them having any exclusive content since Netflix and Peacock (USA) are funding more series for the brand in the end it will give the brand longevity.

DreamWorks launches on StarSat channel 301 through the Max and Super Package in South Africa and also be available on for the rest of Africa on StarTimes Classic
bouquet channel 354 & Super Bouquet channel 301