MultiChoice announces a revolution in pay-TV in Zambia: More entertainment added to DStv Compact Plus, Compact, Family and Access

Great news for television lovers in Zambia – the revolution has arrived and everyone will continue to enjoy great family entertainment asMultiChoice delivers even more value to DStv Premium, Compact Plus, Compact, Family and Access! True to our commitment to our customers, today MULTICHOICE announced a massive content upgrade on DStv packages, effective on 01 November 2016.

MultiChoice’s priority is to put customers at the heart of our business – and this is exactly what we are doing! In the last 9 months DStv has delivered the world’s best football leagues to DStv Compact customers (February) followed by the DStv price freeze in April – and in the latest giant leap in providing customer value, DStv is offering the best value entertainment by combining both quality and variety to ensure everyone has access to great family entertainment.

Today’s announcement introduces even greater changes to benefit customers - these include:

DStv Premium:  More HD and pop-up channels

DStv Premium remains the ultimate television entertainment experience in Zambia - with the best of everything including the world’s most popular local and international channels. To entrench real value, DStv Premium will now offer more content on the same subscription price of K818from 1 November.

With the addition of eleven high definition (HD) channels, customers can now watch more of their favourite shows including the latest and exclusive first run movies, drama, comedy and sport in picture-perfect, crystal clear quality on the over 30 HD channels now available to them.

Also this October, DStv Premium customers will celebrate with M-Net on the M-Net Movies Blockparty pop-up channel on 109, and can look forward to more exciting pop-up channels in the coming months like the M-Net Movies Harry Porter pop-up channel which will run from 4 – 14 November.

DStv Compact Plus:  Bigger and better with ELEVEN new channels

In a major revamp of DStv Compact Plus, customers will enjoy more fantastic channels with buzzworthy original series plus hilarious local sitcoms, riveting talk shows and thought-provoking documentaries previously only available on the DStv Premium package along the same subscription price of K536.

As of 1 November, new channels will include Vuzu AMP, Lifetime, Discovery channel,Crime & Investigation, History channel and Africa Magic Showcase. DStv Compact Plus will also be injected with extra sports content with the addition of more UEFA Champions League matches alongside the best European Football leagues and the Europa league on SuperSport 6 (SS6) and SuperSport 4 (SS4). New channels coming soon to DStv to bring the best of Nollywood content, Latin American telenovelas and Bollywood movies respectively, on the package include ROK, Eva Plus and B4U Movies.

DStv Compact: SIX new channels

DStv Compact will retain the previous addition ofthe Premier League and La Liga earlier this year. In additional to this, customers will now get even more content from the best of English programming on ITV Choice (DStv channel 123)as well as a trip down memory lane with the nostalgic movies on TCM (DStv channel 137) and SS4. From November onwards, Compact subscribers will also be treated to new channels, ROK, Eva Plus and B4U Movies at the same price of K321.

DStv Family: FIVE new channels

The DStv Family package will be boosted with FIVE additional channels B4U Movies, Evaand Eva Plus channels. More entertainment awaits with the addition of SS4 and FOX at the same price of K205.

DStv Access: Gains THREE new channels!

DStv Access will also get a major content boost as three new channels will be added including SS4,B4U Movies and Eva Plus – where viewers will get access to the latest library content of the hottest telenovelas that have aired on Eva -  in addition to a great new line up of sporting events at the same price of K108.  

“The major boost in entertainment value across all DStv bouquets demonstrates our commitment to ensuring DStv customers receive the best possible access to great entertainment and outstanding value.  These changes are not only a defining moment in our MultiChoice story, but also a defining moment in the African entertainment landscape and we are proud to be pushing as hard as we can to delight every television entertainment fan in Africa,” said Ngoza Kasunga Matakala, the Acting Managing Director of MultiChoiceZambia.

ROK to Launch on DStv Channel 168: DStv customers across Africa will be treated to ROK Studios’ wide range of Nollywood Original TV series and Movies

ROK, the award-winning Nigerian film studio and entertainment brand, will launch across Africa on the DStv platform across Africa on 1 November 2016. The Lagos-based film studio, renowned for its original TV series and Nollywood movies, will join the DStv family, bringing exciting original content to 52 countries, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The new channel will launch with ROKStudios’ exclusively-produced content, including Single Ladies, Stalemate, Banks Chronicles and Bloodline. ROK will be available to DStv Premium, DStv Compact Plus and DStv Compact customers. Some of the ROK content will also be available on the DStv Catch-Up service.

Nigerian cinema, known colloquially as Nollywood, is the second largest film industry in the world, in terms of production output. In its short history, ROK has become one of the industry’s most prolific producers of new, original content, with arguably Africa’s most extensive Nollywood catalogue of 12 TV series and over 150 movies.

The new, exclusively Nollywood channel will be fully programmed, produced and developed in-house, by ROK’s Lagos-based team. Mary Njoku, award-winning Nollywood actress and film producer who has spent over 12 years at the heart of Nigerian filmmaking, will head up the channel, which will also be supported by IROKO, the VC-backed African technology and entertainment broadcaster and content distributor.

Speaking on the launch, ROK CEO Mary Njokusays: “Joining the DStv family is the next step in ROK’s evolution as Nollywood’s leading film production house and brand. Broadcasting our original content to millions of movie fans across the African continent, on a platform as far-reaching and illustrious as DStv, is an exhilarating prospect.

“What lies beneath every ROK production, the ROK brand, be it movies or TV series, is our fanatical love of African storytelling; we want to relate amazing African stories that our fans can recognise, be swept away by and be entertained with. We work with Nigeria’s most exceptional talent, in front of and behind the camera, and we continue to push the boundaries in terms of production values. This has given us the edge, in our short history, and has helped us build a fanbase around the world. ROK on DStv allows us to bring ROK to every corner of the continent and connect viewers with content they love”.  

“One of the cornerstones of our customer promise is to deliver content that our customers love and enjoy, and that is why we’re excited to introduce ROK which will boost DStv’s local content offering and showcase even more African stories made in Africa, for us Africans,” says Multichoice Zambia Acting Managing Director ,Ngoza Kasunga Matakala. “This will ensure that our offering keeps the art of storytelling alive on the continent which, will in turn help to grow Africa’s creative industries like Nollywood into vibrant, economic powerhouses.”

Since its launch in 2013, ROK Studios has produced some of Nollywood’s most talked about originals, including Festac Town, Single Ladies, Stalemate, Banks Chronicles and Bloodline.The channel launches with these blockbuster titles, and going forward, ROK viewers on DStv will be the first to watch new and exclusive homegrown ROK content, before it goes anywhere else.

Nollywood is the world’s second largest film industry in terms of output, producing approximately 50 films a week and employs over one million people in Nigeria, and contributes 1.42 percent of Nigeria’s GDP. Prominent themes in Nollywood films include family, religion, love and betrayal.

For further information about the channel and programming to look forward to on ROK, please visit www.dstv.com.

About ROK Studios

ROK Studios launched in 2013. ROK Studios is a leading African film and television studio and production house based in Lagos, Nigeria. ROK specialize in the creation of content in partnership with the industry’s foremost creative talent. ROK has developed, produced and financed film and TV series for distribution platforms globally. ROK owns one of the largest content libraries in Nigeria, with blockbuster films and series, as well as an Animation Studio called ROK Animations Studios.

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About MultiChoice Africa

MultiChoice Africa Limited (“MultiChoice Africa”) is a leading video entertainment service provider with over twenty years’ digital television experience.  The company provides premium video entertainment for subscribers in 49 sub-Saharan African countries and its adjacent Indian Ocean islands. For over two decades, MultiChoice has positively impacted the television production and creative industries while creating employment and empowering small businesses in related industries, from being the best provider of home video entertainment to launching on demand services – including Box Office, Catch Up, DStv Now and AMGO which truly meet the evolving needs of Africa’s tech-savvy consumers.  MultiChoice Africa provides video entertainment content varying from blockbuster movies, the latest series, the world’s greatest sport, up to the minute news, great children’s programmes, music and an array of specialist genres including language specific channels available on both the DStv and GOtv bouquets. Video Entertainment is available on a number of different subscription platforms including direct to home satellite, Digital terrestrial Television (DTT), Live streaming, Video-On-Demand and Mobile. As a corporate citizen, MultiChoice has an unmatched community investment record stretching back two decades creating a meaningful legacy on the continent.