MTV finally answered me after 5 days of waiting to find out whether South African television viewers get to see the Hope in Haiti global telethon.
On Friday I wrote about the planned global telethon RIGHT HERE and MTV just told me that Hope in Haiti will go out on MTV Base (DStv 322) on Saturday. Apparently it will also go out on the feeds of MTV and VH1 in South Africa.
MTV for South Africa isn't really bothering to get this important news out or bring it under viewers attention besides a basic (and very inadequate press release) - and neither is DStv.
NONE of the DStv channels - MTV Base, MTV (DStv 321) or VH1 (DStv 323) - have any updated schedules or channel guides for this TV event on their respective channel line-ups or the PVR EPG.
MTV Base will apparently show the telethon Saturday morning between 03:00 and 06:00 and repeat it on Saturday between 21:00 and 23:00 and again on Sunday between 23:00 and 01:00. But you wouldn't know that from looking at any TV schedule anywhere.
And I was only answered after I had to ask 3 times.