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NewsDay Friday November 27 2015
MultiChoice Zimbabwe
DStv — Africa’s foremost provider of information, education, entertainment
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CAPRI AIR COOL management and staff congratulates
ZIMBABWE
on its 20th Anniversary
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Stv is a digital satellite television service broadcast throughout Africa by MultiChoice Africa. It was launched in 1995 and now provides various bouquets offering general entertainment, sport, films, lifestyle and culture programming, documentaries, news, commerce, children and teenagers’ programmes, music, religion and consumer information. With their huge populations, the largest customer bases are in South Africa and Nigeria, but a subscriber base in many African countries makes the DStv service well-known and popular among growing numbers of people across the continent. Zimbabweans have long regarded DStv as an important source of the entertainment, news and educational content they need in their lives. Zimbabweans have access to DStv through several bouquets, designed to create access to the service at different levels of affordability. The bouquets are Premium, Compact Plus, Compact, Family and Access. Viewers also have access to the special Indian bouquet, which features programmes from throughout the Indian subcontinent.
The management and staff of AMH would like to congratulate
ZIMBABWE
on its 20th Anniversary
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Mr and Mrs Kelly receive their LED TV from DStv’s Liz Dziva (centre) during the DStv Rewards Competition According to Wikipedia, these were some of the milestones for MultiChoice and DStv over the years: l 1986, Pay-television came to South Africa when an analogue, single-channel service, M-Net, was launched by Naspers. For almost seven years, all M-Net’s operations were handled by a single company. l 1993, Naspers created a subsidiary company, MultiChoice, which was to handle the business arm of M-Net, such as decoder sales, subscriber services and account management. l 1995, MultiChoice launched a new digital satellite service in South Africa and on October 6 1995, DStv was officially activated to subscribers. The original video channel bouquet consisted of 17 channels: M-Net, MGM Channel, Turner Classic Movies, TNT Sci-Fi Universal, SuperSport, ESPN, SelecTV, Travel Channel, KTV, Cartoon Network, BBC World News, CNN International, Sky News, Rhema Network, MTV, VH1 and TV5Monde. l 2000, Launch of W4 Eutelsat satellite with Ku-band services to sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands. l 2001, Launch of Indian and Portuguese bouquets. l 2002, Launch of Interactive Television. l 2003, Dual View Decoder launched. l 2005, The DStv PVR decoder and DStv Compact is launched. l 2006, MultiChoice launches BEE Share Scheme, Phuthuma Nathi.
l 2007, Channel Shuffle on October 1, moving channels around to 3-digit numbers and for them to be in their right genre groups. l 2007, Launch of DStv Select and of entry bouquet DStv EasyView. l 2008, Launch of DStv’s first High Definition decoder the HD PVR, XtraView and the first HD channel, M-Net HD. l 2009, HD channels - SuperSport 1 HD, Discovery HD Showcase are launched. l 2010, Digital Video Broadcast over Internet Protocol and DStv on Demand service launched, as well as the HD PVR 2P and M-Net Movies 1 HD. l 2011, DStv BoxOffice and DStv Mobile launched. l 2012, DStv launched a new satellite in August, Intelsat 20, shuffling the channel numbers and offering subscribers eight new HD channels from October 1: l M-Net Movies Premier l M-Net Movies Comedy l M-Net Movies Family l M-Net Movies Action + l M-Net Movies Romance l M-Net Movies Showcase l M-Net Series Showcase (is a dedicated Series Channel first Fresh HD Series ) l Studio Universal HD l 2 new Africa Magic channels l 2013, Multichoice adds FoxHD to (DStv Premium package only) and kykNET & Kie (DStv Family, Compact, and Premium packages). DStv Family launched. l 2013, Multichoice launches its next-generation PVR decoder, l TO PAGE M3