TopTV didn't want to tell the press or the South African TV industry that it's quietly added the months old community TV channel 1KZN which is now running on channel 187.
I wrote RIGHT HERE in early July that 1KZN started broadcasting in Richards Bay and that there's talks between TopTV and Urban Brew Studios to add 1KZN to TopTV's bouquet.
Now 1KZN has been quietly added this weekend, but TopTV is keeping silent and didn't do anything to announce the new 1KZN channel addition, or inform the press or the industry beforehand that the channel negotiation was successful and that it will be added to the platform.
1KZN is running on channel 187 but the signal is distorted at times. 1KZN broadcasts for 6 hours per day (repeated in 4 broadcast blocks over the course of a 24 hour day) in the Uthungulu and iLembe districts in the KwaZulu-Natal province.
TopTV not announcing the addition of the channel to the press must mean that TopTV executives didn't communicate the coming channel addition to the marketing and publicity team, or that the 1KZN channel addition is not considered worth mentioning, or that somebody is maybe not doing their work and failed to issue an advisory, alert or release.
