On Digital Media (ODM) dumping the British pop music TV channel, Smash Hits; says channel no longer fits with its StarSat line-up.

On Digital Media (ODM) and its Chinese backer StarTimes are dumping another channel from the TopTV (soon to be StarSat) channel line-up with the British pop music TV channel, Smash Hits, which will abruptly end today and be gone by 1 December.

ODM says Smash Hits as a music TV channel no longer fits in with its new StarSat branded channel line-up.

TopTV subscribers are not impressed by ODM's latest channel removal, one of several which went missing during 2013 from the struggling South African pay-TV platform's line-up.

ODM says Smash Hits, which is provided by Box Television, is being removed from TopTV/StarSat, given the new package structures, bouquets and channels' overhaul which ODM and StarTimes are making available under the rebranded StarSat name.

ODM says StarSat subscribers will have access to other music channels which are available on the various packages, such as Star Music, Kiss, Kerrang, Box, Magic, Nigezie, One Music.

ODM says StarSat also carries 25 audio music channels.