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An interesting development is that the KwaZulu-Natal based community TV station, 1KZN, will now remain on the struggling TopTV pay-TV provider's channel line-up "indefinitely", meaning that 1KZN is available on both TopTV as well as DStv.
MultiChoice added 1KZN from 13 November to its own DStv channel line-up.
1KZN then told me that the communtity TV station will no longer be available on TopTV from the end of November.
1KZN now tells me that 1KZN "will remain op TopTV on channel 187 indefinitely and will therefore be seen on both DStv channel 261 and TopTV".
The community TV station which started broadcasting last year from the Richards Bay area didn't respond to a follow-up media enquiry as to why 1KZN originally would have left TopTV and now remains available.
1KZN's dual availability makes it one of a limited number of TV channels seen in South Africa on both TopTV and DStv and included on both platforms, such as BBC World News (strikingly available on channel 400 on both services), Al Jazeera, FashionTV and TLC besides the must-carry public channels of the SABC and then e.tv.
