BREAKING. Relevant TV gone from OpenView HD; Alex TV also abruptly disappears from OpenView HD after its broadcasting licence expires.

Relevant TV channel (OVHD 253) is gone from OpenView HD with no warning to OpenView HD viewers or telling the press, while the community TV station Alex TV also disappeared abruptly and went off the air without warning after its broadcasting licence expired.

Although Relevant TV and Alex TV are still sold to OpenView HD viewers as two of the available channels on the satellite TV platform's channel line-up on its website, Relevant TV and Alex TV have both been scrapped, with no word from OpenView HD as to why.

The shocking and sudden termination of Relevant TV, a non-denominational, multi-national Christian lifestyle TV channel with Joshua McCauley as founder, is apparently due to Relevant TV no longer forming a part of the "focus" of OpenView HD which is run by Sabido's Platco Digital division.

"Relevant TV will be off air due to unforeseen circumstances that the channel could not avoid," says OpenView HD.

Furious OpenView HD viewers who got no warning nor any explanation are fuming about the abrupt removal of Relevant TV which was added to OpenView HD in September 2014.

"Please take the necessary action to rectify your unforseen circumstances," said OpenView HD viewer Viv Mellows.

The community TV channel Alex TV (OVHD 453), stylised as lx tv, is also abruptly gone from OpenView HD without prior warning to viewers or the press.

Alex TV's licence apparently expired since the TV channel covering the Alexandra township started broadcasting in May 2014.

In response to a media enquiry made on Tuesday about Alex TV going dark, Maxwell Nonge, the managing director of Platco Digital said "the channel is in the process of renewing its broadcast licence with the regulating body".

In response to a media enquiry made on Tuesday about Relevant TV, Maxwell Nonge says "the channel is ending its contract due to business contraints. Viewers can look forward to the introduction of more channels on the platform over the course of the year".

BREAKING. Alex TV, now called lx tv, added to OpenView HD (OVHD) as a new TV channel, covering life in Alexandra township.

Alex TV, stylised as lx tv, has launched as a new TV channel on Sabido Investment Limited's OpenView HD (OVHD) free-to-air satellite TV platform in South Africa on channel 453.

The TV channel with Lucky Siwela as chief executive officer (CEO) and co-founder, revolves around covering and mirroring the life and issues of the vibrant, yet impoverished South African township and "suburb" of Alexandra.

More than 900 000 people call Alex home in the four kilometre radius adjacent to the wealthy Sandton business district of Johannesburg.

Alex TV, or now lx tv, started broadcasting exactly a year ago in May 2013 for three hours per day, with a staff of five producers and 10 different shows.

Now lx tv as a South African community TV station will get broader exposure and be available to a national TV audience since it launched on OVHD on 1 May at 18:00. The station's new slogan is "You have arrived" and programming loops for 24 hours per day.

Alex TV, or lx tv, is relaunching it's programming offering and schedule in conjunction with its launch and new availability on OVHD with new shows. Alex TV will also work with journalists from Eyewitness News to help with news and presentation training.

Shows on lx tv include Icon, billed as a "celebration of the heroes and heroines that have been leading the quest to develop the township" and presented by Nothemba Sulupha, healthy lifestyle show Booty Curves presented by Shirley Mthombeni and Thando Dahza fronting the talk show Girls Prerogrative.

Between the Sheets is a show focusing on relationships, Tagged is a gossip show and Monate Fela is a music programme.

Soon lx tv plans to add feature films revolving around, depicting and speaking about life in Alexandra.