MultiChoice Group-owned pay-television service DStv is offering free access to 16 channels, including to non-subscribers. Since the lockdown started, usage of the service has increased to 20% and peak usage is 80% compared to pre-crisis peaks. Multichoice has added educational content with the Mindset PoP channel. This channel offers educational programming comprising of the entire [...]
DStv Now announced that 24-hour news channels will be available on its platform to everyone amid the on-going coronavirus pandemic. Showmax confirmed in a statement that BBC World News, CNN, Sky News, SABC News, Newzroom Afrika, Al Jazeera, and Euronews would now also be available to stream live on its platform. Both subscribers and non-subscribers [...]
MultiChoice Africa has introduced a new 24-hour news service, Newzroom Afrika, on the DStv platform. It is accessible to customers on all DStv packages. The development of news service comes just two months after the service was rolled out in South Africa. It comprised programmes like Your View Africa Round Table, presented by South African [...]
MultiChoice has declared Newzroom Afrika as the new channel to take over Afro Worldview. The CEO of MultiChoice Calvo Mawela has announced on Tuesday morning, weeks after Afro Worldview’s Mzwanele Manyi informed employees not to report to work the next day. Mawela expressed, “I am pleased to announce, ladies and gentlemen, that the successful bidder is Newzroom [...]