BREAKING. ANN7 is coming to DStv channel 405, causing Russia Today to move to channel 407 and NDTV to move to channel 413 from August.

ANN7, the new 24-hour South African TV news channel is coming to MultiChoice's DStv channel 405, which means that Russia Today (RT) which is currently on channel 405 will be moving to channel 407 and that NDTV which is currently on channel 407 will be moving to channel 413 from August.

RT told TV with Thinus on Monday that the channel is relocating to channel 407 from August. 

MultiChoice responded to a media enquiry today about the channel number changes, saying "MultiChoice would like to advise its customers of a change in the channel number of two news channels on DStv".

"Russia Today (currently channel 405) will be moving to channel 407 and NDTV (currently channel 407) will be moving to channel 413 as from Thursday, 1 August 2013".

ANN7 starting on channel 405 necessitated the news channels' move.

The SABC's 24-hour news channel will likely get DStv channel 404, which means that all three local South African TV news channels will be in a linear grouping next to each other on channels 403, 404 and 405.