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Dancestar Television has announced that an exclusive distribution, content sales and advertising partnership for Africa has been formed with Media Brokerage Africa. Dancestar TV (DSTV) is the world’s first Over-the-Top (OTT) live stream channel that features Electronic Dance Music culture 24/7. It’s your ticket to the world’s best nightclubs, festivals, and new music from the best DJ’s, producers, and artists worldwide, capturing the true spirit of the EDM lifestyle. Targeted at 12-54-year-old male and females, Dancestar TV is an exciting mix of News, Interviews, Festival Features, and Music Videos. The channel’s original programming includes: ‘THE DROP’, ‘ELECTROLITE’, ‘FESTIVITIES’, ‘ANTISOCIAL’, ‘PREVIOUS’, ‘TALKTRONIC’, ‘AQUAPARTY’ and ‘AURAL PLEASURES’. All complemented by recap videos from the world’s nightclub capitals, Miami, Las Vegas, New York, London and Ibiza. Fans also get to stream the top 10 reports from all the key EDM genres like House, Techno and Dub Step. Andy Ruf

On Thursday night, the South African Broadcasting Corporation, hosted a live broadcast of the official launch of its Sports Channel, following the successful soft launch of its 24 Hour Sports Channel on the SABC DTT service, the Openview set-top-box and the TelkomONE mobile streaming platform in April 2021. This launch will also feature Team SAs announcement of the second team squad for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games on the Sports Channel. The event was live yesterday on SABC Sport Channel on Openview 124, the SABC’s DTT service and TelkomONE’s mobile platform from 19:00. In addition, the public can view the launch live on Youtube on SABC Sport Channel. The live broadcast of Team SA’s announcement of the second team squad for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games will be carried on the public broadcaster’s free to air channel SABC 2 at 20h00. Mr. Gary Rathbone – GM: SABC Sport stated that “SABC Sport has always been the ultimate sporting home to the nation and has brought to South Africa

Kids Programmes – Premieres A Week to Beat the World – BRAND-NEW From July 19th    Monday to Friday 17:30 Six super sporty kids are on an adventure around the world to see if they can compete in some of the toughest, most unusual sports on the planet. Family Programmes – Premieres Xploration Awesome Planet – NEW SEASON From July 19th    Monday to Friday 21:00 In Xploration Awesome Planet, Phillippe Cousteau Jr., grandson of the legendary Jacques Cousteau, explores the most spectacular places - on the earth, inside the earth, and above the earth. Why are pollinators so important and how do horseshoe crabs migrate? Adult Programmes – Premieres The Truth About Sugar – BRAND-NEW Sunday, July 11th at 22:00 Fiona Phillips and four volunteers investigate what sugar does to our bodies and what the health benefits of cutting back actually are. Fascinating science and human drama combine as the truth about sugar turns out to be quite surprising! The Truth About Carbs – BRAND-NEW S

Warner Bros. Discovery is the name of Discovery Inc. and WarnerMedia's joint company which is set to take into effect mid 2022. This new company will see the likes of Cartoon Network, Toonami, Cartoonito and Boomerang clash with Discovery Family (the international counterpart of Discovery Kids). Discovery Inc. hosts a bunch of brands such as Discovery Channel, Food Network and Discovery Science. These brands provide shows such as Mythbusters, Chopped and Battlebots. Some of these shows even got spinoffs targeted towards children. Now this merge could see the launch of another block or channel which carries the best in factual, lifestyle and educational programming known as Discovery Kids. Discovery Kids would also offers shows such as How It's Made, Bear Grylls' Ultimate Survival School, Kids Do The Craziest Things, Mythbusters Jr and many more. Perhaps even conjure up series under Discovery's other brands like TLC and HGTV. WarnerMedia talked about adding more var

After 4 month holiday, e.tv decided to air the final season of Dr. Gülseren Budayıcıoğlu’s TV adaptation with a different name, Deur Dik En Dun starring Özcan Deniz and Aslı Enver. Deur Dik En Dun follows Süreyya, a young and beautiful singer, involves to the life of rooted Boran family of Bursa as a wife of the oldest son Faruk and all the family's secrets begins to uncover. Faruk is the owner of a bus company and the leader of a powerful family in Bursa which is a metro-pol in Turkey. In season 3, they are going to face Adem and takes back what's theirs. Don't miss the third and final season of Deur Dik En Dun weekdays at 17:30 on e.tv and four hours later on eExtra from 12 July. Read Also: - Could OpenView be getting two SABC Encore channels? - Could Openview be the reason for SABC Education's delay on both DStv and  StarSat (updated 25 July) -  Dizi might return to DStv   - MacGyver returns to e.tv - e.tv is filming a new boxing drama - House Of Zwide repla

SABC 3 will be launching the second season of the reality show, The Longest Date and relaunching the Turkish drama, The Red Room which was unexpectedly pulled from the channel after a few episodes. For those who've forgotten, The Red Room revolve around a psychological clinic, and the stories and attitudes of a group of psychiatric patients who frequent it, and who lived different events between pain and joy, narrated by one of the psychiatrists who own the clinic, supervising their follow-up and trying to treat them while the second season of The Longest Date, 16 contestants compete to find love and win 100 000. The Red Room replaces The Bay weekdays at 19:30 after The Estate from 2nd July while the second season of The Longest Date airs at 21:00 from 26th July. Read Also: - Could Openview be the reason for SABC Education's delay on both DStv and  StarSat (updated 25 July) - SABC and e.tv's ratings for May - eReality is getting local reality shows - Is SABC revivin

MultiChoice currently has 3 pop-up channels operating on the platform with the 4th which is on StarTimes being disqualified earlier in the year. These remaining channels could be permanent additions at the same time it could be the end. ZooMoo is calling it quits on DStv as the channel is scheduled to close by the end of June after its 3 month extension. MultiChoice has sent a channel termination notice onto viewer's screens. If they reconsider its best to place it on a much cheaper package so that it can gain more awareness. tvN is the now the second pop-up channel to recieve an extension on DStv unlike ZooMoo it's staying for only a month. They've unveiled a bunch of shows coming to the channel the one I'd look out for next month is Memorist, Tomorrow With You, Mr. Queen and The Sixth Sense. TLNovelas is currently the longest pop-up channel on DStv launching in September of last year with its demise scheduled for August. There's a bunch of titles to

WarnerMedia is giving its pay-TV channels in German-speaking countries new names. TNT Serie will become Warner TV Serie, TNT Film will become Warner TV Film and TNT Comedy will become Warner TV Comedy. With the name change, which will take place on September 25, 2021, the channels will be clearly visible under the umbrella of the well-known US media brand Warner Bros. and should thus be perceived more strongly by subscribers, partners and advertisers as premium offerings, according to WarnerMedia. The rebranding brings us closer to the hundred-year legacy of the Warner Bros. brand, which unmistakably stands for creative and authentic storytelling like no other in the world. Overall, it leads to a significant increase in brand awareness beyond the pay-TV sector, which in turn helps with marketing, “says Heyelmann in an interview. The Warner TV brand is already established in France, "and the TNT channels will gradually also be renamed in other European countries." The cu

Earlier in the year, Discovery Family was abruptly removed after two years on StarTimes (Starsat) alongside another Discovery Channel known as Fine Living . According to StarSat, when a content provider decides to make changes in the production of content they cannot prevent it. Since then the channel remained exclusive to DStv. Before Discovery Family came to Starsat, there was another channel before it known as Discovery Science that featured programming focusing on the fields of wilderness survival, ufology, manufacturing, construction, technology, space, prehistory and animal science. Basically, most of Discovery Family's current programming is available under there such as Battlebots, Food Factory, Mythbusters, Mega Machines, The Unexplained Files and Strange Evidence. In 2018, StarTimes decided to trade a useful channel such as Discovery Science with a mass produced Discovery Family for no apparent reason now they're both gone platform is still sourcing out a poss