{"id":11166,"date":"2020-11-21T15:18:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T13:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=11166"},"modified":"2020-11-21T15:18:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T13:18:14","slug":"multichoice-introduces-a-brand-new-channel-honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2020\/11\/21\/multichoice-introduces-a-brand-new-channel-honey\/","title":{"rendered":"MultiChoice Introduces A Brand New Channel “Honey”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Africa\u2019s most-loved storyteller is proud to announce a brand new Pan-African lifestyle channel, HONEY, on DStv channel 173<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As part of our ongoing effort to enhance our customers\u2019 viewing experience and delight them with additional content, DStv is thrilled to bring this latest venture in African storytelling. HONEY launches on Friday, 12 February, 2021 and will be available for Compact, Compact Plus and Premium customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HONEY is a bold, unscripted lifestyle TV channel for curious and connected Africans. The channel is about celebrating and exploring African lives and loves, and the content is focused on lifestyle, fashion, food, weddings, dating, as well as reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Honey (DStv channel 173) will celebrate and explore African lives and loves<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

MultiChoice CEO of General Entertainment, Yolisa Phahle, says the move follows consistent, upward lifestyle-viewership trends on the continent. \u201cDStv is thrilled to launch HONEY. The channel is part of our commitment to keep bringing fresh, authentic and local content to our African subscribers. For many years, we\u2019ve seen lifestyle is a popular genre on the continent; and now our subscribers will see their own talent, food, celebrations, and their families as the well-deserved hero.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The channel will be broadcast in all key African regions including Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Namibia, Botswana, Malawi, Zambia, Angola, Mozambique, Tanzania, DRC, Cameroon and South Africa. Keeping with the continent\u2019s effervescent energy and vibrancy, the channel will be a tapestry of African producers with exciting storylines and cross-continental casting, making HONEY, a go-to channel for authentic African storytelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Head of Content at MultiChoice, Aletta Alberts says: \u201cAfrica\u2019s dynamism and way of life is the perfect ingredient for this exciting channel. HONEY is going to add sweet and sticky flavour to our subscriber offering. Lifestyle content is the ideal vehicle to reflect the continent\u2019s diversity and sameness. Everyone curious about food, style, and weddings is in for a treat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The new channel will be a tapestry of African producers with exciting storylines<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The MultiChoice channel is packaged by Media24\u2019s television unit which is also responsible for Afrikaans lifestyle channel, VIA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Izelle Venter, HONEY\u2019s Channel Head says: \u201cMedia24 is delighted to collaborate with MultiChoice on this new adventure. The goal is to combine both companies\u2019 best qualities, experiences, and knowledge to serve DStv subscribers with a new channel that is familiar, unique and entertaining.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The key ingredient to HONEY is the channel\u2019s focus on authentic African storytelling. In a ground-breaking content creation model, the channel has partnered with producers from all corners of the continent to create hundreds of fresh hours of exciting African shows, ensuring that HONEY is indeed the place where all Africans feel at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are working with producers across the continent to ensure the lifestyle stories we tell are real and relevant,\u201d says Zinzi Velelo, HONEY\u2019s Head of Content. \u201cOur goal is to showcase the characters, talent and dynamics of everyday African life as never before.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manage your subscription via the MyDStv app and enjoy this channel and more on the go, anywhere and anytime using the DStv app and Showmax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa\u2019s most-loved storyteller is proud to announce a brand new Pan-African lifestyle channel, HONEY, on DStv channel 173 As part of our ongoing effort to enhance our customers\u2019 viewing experience and delight them with additional content, DStv is thrilled to bring this latest venture in African storytelling. HONEY launches on Friday, 12 February, 2021 and… Continue reading MultiChoice Introduces A Brand New Channel “Honey”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[87,86,110],"class_list":["post-11166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-dstv","tag-multichoice","tag-showmax","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}