BREAKING. TopTV on Al Mizan: 'Changing and revamping the channel' and making the Muslim TV channel better for subscribers.

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TopTV, at its first programming press preview for journalists and TV critics in Cape Town, said that there had been some issues around the Al Mizan (TopTV 355) Muslim TV channel which is getting a big revamp.

The South African pay TV operator added the Muslim TV channel in November 2010.

"With Al Mizan TopTV is in the process of changing and revamping the channel and making it better for our subscribers," said Heather Kennedy, TopTV's vice president for marketing.

She didn't specify or went into any details about what the issues was.

BREAKING. TopTV to add a brand-new Islamic-centric TV channel Al Mizan in November.

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I can exclusively break the news and reveal that On Digital Media's (ODM) TopTV platform will be launching a brand-new Muslim based TV channel called Al Mizan on Friday, November 5.

TopTV is officially mum on this, but I can tell you that Al Mizan will be available on TopTV's variety package of R99 per month. TopTV will not be making a big hoo-haa about the Islamic-centric TV channel and is adding Al Mizan (''mizan'' means ''balance in English) to see how it will do regarding viewership.