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e.tv has launched the eMedia South African broadcaster's leaked streaming service eVOD (e-Video-On-Demand) as a so-called freemium streamer with over 2 500 hours of content at launch, including different premium subscription tiers for exclusive content. e.tv plans to spend at least R100 million per year on creating brand-new local content for eVOD that will include 4 eOriginal series and 10 original South African feature films, and the plan is to add the streaming of live linear TV channels on eVOD in the future. As e.tv is a free-to-air commercial broadcaster, eVOD offers thousands of hours of free library content that is available after a customer registers an eVOD profile. eVOD also offers daily (R5 for 24 hours), weekly (R15) and monthly (R29.99) subscriptions, giving a viewer access to all content and offering more exclusive content including a first-run eOriginal movie, and access to the next week's 5 episodes of e.tv's top local prime soaps and telenovelas in a f

Apparently, StarTimes dumped the last batch of Discovery Channels seen on their platform: Real Time, Discovery Science and Investigation Discovery. Before the removal, a lot of subscribers complained about experiencing technical difficulties with several channels including these ones and StarTimes said that they were working on resolving the matter. Shocking enough, these channels went off air and according to StarTimes in the rest of Africa, Discovery decided to terminate these brands from August 2nd, funny thing about this is all of these channels are still available on DStv, Zuku TV and TelkomOne. If you look brlob the one in South Africa was blandly honest: Earlier this year, they even terminated Discovery Family and said it had something to do with Discovery but guess what it's still available on DStv and this is the channel's 8 month on the platform so if it's a Discovery thing why is it still functioning on your competitors. Not long ago, MultiChoice even mentio

In view of a new digital strategy, the Flemish Minister of Media (Benjamin Dalle) has indicated that he does not wish to renew the partnership with BVN broadcaster after 1 July 2021. As a result, as from 1 July 2021, BVN will become a 100% Dutch broadcaster with more room for programmes of NPO, the Dutch public service broadcaster. BVN will continue to be available around the world online and largely via satellite. The termination of the partnership between Flanders and BVN will, however, partially affect the satellite distribution, as well as the VRT programme offering on BVN. Satellite distribution via Eutelsat 113WA and Astra 19.2 continues: BVN will still be available in the overseas territories belonging to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, but also elsewhere in Central and South America and a large part of the United States via the Eutelsat 113WA satellite. Furthermore, BVN will continue to be available via the Astra 19.2 satellite throughout Europe and the neighbouring territori

Earlier this year, Star India replaced the Star branding across UK/Europe with Utsav leaving Vijay TV as the only brand in South Africa, Middle East and Singapore to use the Vijay design to avoid clashing with the Star branding that's been rolling out internationally through Disney+. According to Senior Vice President and Business Head, they want to celebrate positivity and energy reinforced through our loved characters. The Utsav logo, infused from the Star logo, signifies stability and progress while the trademark swoosh pays homage to the insurmountable human spirit. Since Utsav was introduced, several queries have been filed regarding the rest of the Star channels in Africa and each time they've always redirected the media to the UK/European market since the changes were only applicable to them. After much anticipation, it seems as if Star India got the rights to use the Utsav branding for the rest of their channels in Africa as they've seemingly been tested thro

Your weekends are about to get even more sillier as e.tv introduces a brand new sitcom which is known other than ABC's hit show, The Goldbergs which can be seen on M-Net and VUZU. The Goldbergs, follows the life of three siblings that navigate what it means to grow up in the colorful, loving Goldberg family in the 1980s. The show is loosely based on the showrunner's childhood, during which he regularly videotaped events. The series was created by Adam F. Goldberg and stars Wendi McLendon-Covey, Jeff Garlin, Sean Giambrone, Troy Gentile, Hayley Orrantia and George Segal. Season 1 of The Goldbergs is set to air on Sundays at 19:30 replacing Modern Family. The date will be announced by the channel. Read Also: - A sneek peek to Kuiertyd's new series Dokter Ali is coming to eExtra -  Supa TV no longer available on Openview -  New Korean drama coming to eExtra -  Could Star Life and Rewind be the first channels to go off air on Openview? -  SABC Encore and Entertainment

When the Walt Disney Company purchased 20th Century Fox, one of the key assets was access to the Indian streaming service “Hotstar”, which was rebranded to Disney+ Hotstar early last year. Subscribers to Disney+ Hotstar make up over a third of the total number of subscribers to Disney+ globally. Earlier today, Disney announced some changes to its Disney+ Hotstar service, merging together the VIP and Premium content, while offering three price tiers, depending on if the subscriber is only watching on a mobile device or on multiple devices like 4K TVs. Disney+ Hotstar has a wide selection of original content, which is currently only available in India, but that is likely to change in the future, with some of the best original content available on Hulu in the United States or on Star On Disney+ internationally. During an interview with Variety, Sunil Rayan, president and head of Disney Plus Hotstar, has confirmed. “It is an objective for us that we want creators out of India to have

NEW BRITISH STREAMING SERVICE LAUNCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA The British video streaming service BritBox, jointly run by ITV and the BBC, announced on Tuesday evening during a virtual press event that it will be launching in South Africa on 6 August. SA is only the 5th global territory - after the US, UK, Canada, and Australia - where it will be available at a price of R99.99 per month, including a 7-day free trial. BritBox will join South Africa's video streaming wars.where MultiChoice's Showmax, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV+ are competing with VIU, Vodacom Video Play and TelkomONE. Other international streaming services like HBO Max, Disney+, Paramount+, Peacock and Discovery+ are still to launch locally. Then there is also Acorn TV, likely BritBox's biggest competitor that is already available in South Africa, also offering a 7-day free trial and costing R79 per month for access to its revolving catalogue of British TV content. Britbox in South Africa will

Kids Programmes Marvellous Makes Lab – BRAND-NEW ORIGINAL PRODUCTION Sundays 09:00 Set in a vibrant science lab, the series shows kids how to make fun experiments using readily available household items. The Dream Job – BRAND-NEW Saturdays 17:30 In this social experiment, three company bosses have taken an extraordinary leap of faith: to allow a group of kids to join their business for a week in the hope that their brief experience of adulthood will open their eyes to careers many of them never knew existed. Special Highlight Play & Make Special Sunday, August 15th From 09:00 to 12:50 09:00 Marvellous Makes Lab  09:15 Darwin & Newts 09:40 Mily Miss Questions 09:50 Infotoy 10:15 Marvellous Makes 10:50 Hands Up! 11:10 How To Do Stuff Good 11:45 Do You Know? 12:00 History Hunters 12:25 Totally Rubbish Continuing Programmes Xploration DIY SCI – NEW EPISODES Fridays 16:00 Walking on eggs, building your own ping pong ball launcher, and turning soda bottles in

A week ago, I mentioned that The Power Of Destiny will likely be the last show to debut on TLNovelas before the pop-up channel stops airing ONLY on DStv well you can scratch that the last show will likely be The Tempest. The Tempest (La Tempestad) which serves as a remake to Colombian telenovela La Tormenta follows Marina, a young and beautiful woman who gets fired one day as she tries to help a colleague who's been raped. An unsuspected twist of faith lands her in a car with a mysterious woman Mercedes who offers her a job at a small fishing village. She accepts when her mother's health declines and hopes that the sea side will offer both of them something good. Arriving at the town means that she'll have to meet the captain of La Tempestad, Damian Fabregas. William Levy and Ximena Navarrete star as the protagonists, while Iván Sánchez, Laura Carmine, and César Évora star as the antagonists. The show made its debut with a total of 122 episodes each being an hour on