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- DStv will merge the M-Net City and VUZU channels into a new M-Net packaged channel called Me from November.
- "Me will feature the best of both its predecessors while establishing a new identity strategically crafted with the discerning audience in mind," says M-Net.
- Me will take the channel number spot of M-Net City on channel 115.
MultiChoice and M-Net are ending both the M-Net City and VUZU channels on DStv at the end of October and will combine their content into yet another new M-Net packaged channel called Me from November.
After Disney ended and took away its FOX general entertainment channel just after midnight this morning on DStv and StarSat, some DStv subscribers were shocked to receive an SMS message from MultiChoice late on Thursday telling them that they're losing another two TV channels and that M-Net City and VUZU are getting axed to be replaced by just one channel called Me from 1 November.
M-Net on Friday morning confirmed the news to Channel24.
"The launch of Me will see two channels, M-Net City (DStv 115) and VUZU (DStv 116), merged to create a bigger, better channel aimed to give viewers their famous, world-class series and reality shows in one place," M-Net says.
"Me will feature the best of both its predecessors while establishing a new identity strategically crafted with the discerning audience in mind."
Me will take the channel number spot of M-Net City on channel 115.
The M-Net City channel identity was born out of the M-Net Series Zone channel in April 2015 and will now be retired after six years.
M-Net relaunched its GO youth channel in July 2009 as VUZU, which eventually spawned a spin-off TV channel called VUZU AMP that was axed and relaunched as 1Magic. The move to end VUZU and turn it into Me means that M-Net is retiring the VUZU brand name after 12 years.
While VUZU is available to DStv Premium, DStv Compact Plus, DStv Compact and DStv Family subscribers, M-Net City is only available to DStv Premium DStv Compact Plus and DStv Compact subscribers.
It's conceivable that MultiChoice and M-Net will have to make the replacement Me channel available to all DStv packages down to DStv Family; otherwise, DStv Family subscribers would effectively lose a TV channel.
Thinus Ferreira is a South African TV expert with years of experience covering the local television industry.
