The M-Net Holiday channel - the limited-run TV channel on MultiChoice's DStv platform which M-Net supplied the past few years (with a gap one year when it wasn't on) - will not be continued.
MultiChoice feels that subscribers have access to a wide enough selection and offering of viewing during the holiday time on existing TV channels on the bouquet.
The past few years the M-Net Holiday channel (renamed simply m199 when it returned in 2010 after an absence in 2009) won't return in 2012 to run from mid-December to mid-January 2013.
Last week I asked MultiChoice what the prospects are of m199 returning, after readers started asking me.
"MultiChoice will not be offering a holiday channel any longer as the new M-Net Movies Showcase channel and Universal Channel will cater for all programmes that were previously covered on the holiday channel," says the pay-TV operator.
