Tuesday, October 9, 2012

After August's deal, is the Zone Reality TV channel changing to the CBS Reality channel in South Africa in December?


Nobody wants to talk about it, but of course Zone Reality (DStv 132) on DStv is changing to CBS Reality - and now sources have been telling its happening sometime during December. Who knows - we'll see. That's the latest I know and have been told.

Chellomedia which programmes the Zone Reality as well as other channels out of Britain gave CBS Studios International a 30% stake in the channels in return for programming from CBS' library, which is why the name change is going to take place.

Zone Reality will basically be rebranded - or in effect be folded into - CBS Reality as a "new" TV channel. Chellomedia's international broadcaster arm Chello Zone runs channels such as Zone Reality in South Africa as well as in the rest of Africa, Europe and the Middle East.