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Showing posts with label Discovery Inc.. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 30, 2022

South Africa will get discovery+. Here's how.

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by Thinus Ferreira South Africa will definitely also get discovery+, the video streaming service of Discovery Inc. which is not yet availabl...
Thursday, October 14, 2021

Discovery Inc.'s TLC and ID channels turn 10 in South Africa with special nostalgia-programming; as Discovery says 'Africa has been important for Discovery for 20 years and we look forward to the next 10 years'.

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by Thinus Ferreira Discovery Inc.'s TLC and Investigation Discovery (ID) channels both turn 10 years old in South Africa with special pr...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

Discovery Inc. pulls all of its TV channels from StarTimes in Africa and StarSat in South Africa in unresolved contract conflict.

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by Thinus Ferreira Pay-TV customers of StarTimes across Africa, including StarSat subscribers in South Africa, abruptly lost all of the Disc...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

MultiChoice's DStv Media Sales to take over the ad sales booking of all 8 of Discovery Inc.'s TV channels from September 2021.

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by Thinus Ferreira DStv Media Sales, the sales arm of MultiChoice, is taking over the commercial ad repping of all of the Discovery Inc. TV ...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Discovery Channel adds Evgeny Afineevsky's Francesco documentary film about Pope Francis to the schedule for Sunday 4 April.

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by Thinus Ferreira Discovery Inc. has added the Francesco documentary about Pope Francis, a Discovery original production, that has been sc...
Saturday, March 13, 2021

Food Network adds Inside Job with chef Katlego Mlambo on Saturdays at 7pm from 13 March as a new South African series exploring his love for local ingredients.

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by Thinus Ferreira Discovery Inc.'s Food Network (DStv 175) is adding a new local South Africa show to its culinary schedule with Inside...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV reports and articles to read - 25 February 2021.

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Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:     ■  Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) TV sport anchor...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read - 23 February 2021.

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Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:      ■  The big financial problems of China's StarTimes pa...
Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Discovery Inc. cuts its Discovery Family channel from StarTimes and StarSat after just 2 years on the air without any explanation and just a month after axing FLN.

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by Thinus Ferreira Discovery Inc. has abruptly removed and ended its Discovery Family channel on China's StarTimes and StarSat pay-TV pl...
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

After over a decade on-air in South Africa Discovery Inc. abruptly dumps Fine Living on StarTimes and StarSat without warning or explanation.

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by Thinus Ferreira Discovery Inc. has abruptly removed its Fine Living TV TV channel this week after more than 10 and a half years on-air in...
Thursday, December 3, 2020

Discovery Inc.'s new Discovery+ video streaming service to roll out globally in 25 countries within a year with 1 000 hours of original content, wants to sit alongside Netflix and Disney+ as the go-to global streamer for non-scripted real-life content.

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by Thinus Ferreira Discovery Inc. on Wednesday evening during a virtual media event announced that it will be launching its new global video...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Discovery Inc. rebrands its video streaming service as discovery+; no mention about Africa as Sky subscribers in Britain get it bundled free for a year.

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by Thinus Ferreira Discovery Inc. on Tuesday announced that it's rebranding its dplay video-on-demand (VOD) service in the United Kingdo...
Friday, June 12, 2020

Discovery Inc. to show Oprah's TV special about race relations across its channels in South Africa and Africa on Sunday night, adds lead-in special The Murder of George Floyd A Nation Responds to Investigation Discovery schedule.

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by Thinus Ferreira Oprah Winfrey's TV special on race relations  in the United States with lessons and insight for a global audienc...
Thursday, August 1, 2019

HGTV DStv channel launch press tour - An overview.

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Discovery Inc. for the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region worked incredibly hard to make a great impression and to create a splash fo...