FOX Crime is already available on MultiChoice's DStv platform since June and now FOX Crime will also become available on StarSat to replace FOX Retro which was removed from TopTV
TV with Thinus reported in July that talks were underway between ODM and Fox International Channels to possibly add FOX Crime.
FOX Crime will be added to StarSat channel 131. Nat Geo Gold will be added to StarSat channel 300. Both channels are supplied by FIC Africa.
Nat Geo Gold, abbreviated as NGG, first became available in Africa as a bespoke TV channel for the continent in June 2012 as a channel for StarTimes' platform in other Southern and Central African countries as well as Nigeria.
Then Alessandro Tucci, Fox International Channels Africa general manager said that it was National Geographic Channel International's first channel on the African continent designed to cater for the new pay-TV platforms on the continent.
"Programming from the National Geographic library stock relevant to an African viewership, and based on the NGCI programming tent poles of science, technology, history, culture and natural history has been sourced" for Nat Geo Gold.
In September this year when the ZukuTV pay-TV platform replaced its Nat Geo Adventure channel with Nat Geo Gold, exactly the same drop-in quote was again reused for the channel's positioning.
Nat Geo Gold marks the third TV channel from the National Geographic stable which will be available in South Africa. MultiChoice's DStv already has the National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo Wild, with ODM and StarTimes adding Nat Geo Gold.
Nat Geo Gold shows programming also seen on the National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo Wild, such as Megafactories, Dog Whisperer and Air Crash Investigation.
