M-Net, the home of magic, sees its popularity soar after when multi-award-winning actuality show Carte Blanche grace our screens. M-Net launches their analogue service to more than 20 countries throughout the African continent. Due to highly diverse operating environments within each country, M-Net forms joint partnerships with local businesses to ensure customer needs are met appropriately.
SuperSport becomes a hour-a-day channel, and is beamed throughout Africa. M-Net divides its operations and MultiChoice is formed to oversee subscriber management, signal distribution and cellphone operations — M-Net continues to deal with the delivery of entertainment channels. By this stage, SuperSport becomes a hour-a-day channel. MultiChoice introduces digital technology to the continent with the launch of DStv. This satellite service is one of the first to exist outside of the United States and allows MultiChoice to reach even remote regions while delivering exceptional quality.
As MultiChoice is operating in a digital realm and increasingly so as the years go on , security becomes paramount. When rugby became a full professional sport in , most of the broadcasting rights in the Southern Hemisphere were sold to Rupert Murdoch 's News Corporation. In response, they started negotiating with NewsCorp in August and in February the following year, SuperSport was granted sole broadcasting rights to both the Super 12 and Tri Nations rugby tournaments.
M-Net began broadcasting a p high definition channel in , which is available on the majority of availability of a HD PVR; the standard definition channel for non HD PVR subscribers, as is merely downscaled at the provider from the HD feed rather than having a devoted analog channel.
In the original two movie channels were replaced with six HD channels which grouped films according to genre. The original M-Net channel broadcasts general entertainment, as well as premiere movies, documentaries, music specials and first-run TV series such as Desperate Housewives , Ugly Betty , Grey's Anatomy and Charmed. The channel has a timeshift service, a terrestrial service and a CSN. Over the course of several years, M-Net has launched numerous sister channels. In October , the original two movie channels were replaced with six HD channels which grouped films according to genre.
M-Net Movies flagship channel consisting of first run movie premieres mostly after being available on the DStv BoxOffice rental service. The result of two previous movie channels fused, namely M-Net Movies Family and M-Net Movies Comedy, with animated films during the day and comedy specials at night.
The channel previously was a general entertainment channel, with notable series in-between movies. It has since moved from its series root to focus more on new action film and action classics. The premium action movie channel focused on thrillers and horror movies shown here before moving on to M-Net Movies Action. Launched as M-Net Stars, along with M-Net Action was a general entertainment channel focused on the most favoured stars.
Due to most stars being voiceovers the channel has mostly animated movies, with a mix of comedy and romance. The pop-up channel and the first of the movie channels to broadcast less than 24 hours a day. Initially, the channel was named M-Net Movies Showcase. In , the same year M-Net Movies Smile was formed, another channel, M-Net Movies Romance was incorporated into Showcase, in direct response to viewer complaints of too many repeats.
Most of the programmes broadcast are unique to M-Net Series but some are rebroadcasts of episodes previously shown on M-Net. A single series channel was introduced in as a sister channel to the original M-Net channel. On 9 July , this channel was split into three, namely.
The standalone channel is reminiscent of the initial channel, in that it airs shows that previously aired on the main M-Net channel.
It was rebranded M-Net City in Later on, Vuzu Amp was rebranded to One Magic. The addition of new channels to the M-Net offering keeps growing with lively new offerings, The Soap Channel and M-Net Series arriving towards the end of the nineties.
M-Net keeps analysing and anticipating the viewing needs of its diverse audiences, prompting the regular birth of new channels. Housemates from the first season of Big Brother emerge from their cocoon.
M-Net Action arrives, with high-adrenaline movies and series. But because the South African season was a little shorter than the Polish one, Heinz Winckler is the second winner worldwide, starting a hugely successful run for Idols here. Africa Magic, the channel for Africans by Africans, makes its debut.
The series goes on to shatter all previous viewing numbers for the channel and set the scene for a production line of new dramas.
The show is lauded for its down-to-earth characters and receives frequent visits from Afrikaans musicians and celebrities. In , with Idols and Big Brother already the talk of the town, M-Net secures the rights to the local version of another big reality show franchise —Survivor. M-Net secures the rights to the local version of another big reality show franchise —Survivor. By the show is in its tenth season - and more popular than ever!
The year also sees the introduction of DStv Select and another landmark: on 31 March 2. Going head-to-head with global series, the show thrills viewers for an amazing eight, action-packed seasons. VUZU, a youth-focused channel, is introduced. In July, Mzansi Magic arrives and quickly becomes the place for South African audiences to catch the best homegrown entertainment.
In time, these will expand to more than 10 channels. Mzansi Magic Music also makes its appearance as does The Wild, filmed on location in the North-West province with a cinematic quality unheard of in local episodic television. On 19 March, Mzansi Magic offers South Africa its first taste of the telenovela format which has gripped the imagination of television viewers across Latin America. The brainchild of formidable acting legend, John Kani, Inkaba is set in the capricious world of fashion.
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