M-Net to launch new general entertainment channel for DStv Compact viewers

This new high-impact channel will entertain viewers with a variety of programme genres. Some of the great content lined up includes comedies such as Modern Family and Last Man Standing, talk shows, and for the first time, Chicago PD, a crime and drama series will be available to Compact subscribers.

The channel will also screen blockbuster films on Saturdays and Sundays, and series lovers can indulge in binge viewing with back-to-back episodes over the weekends or enjoy a fixed time with the favourite shows which will be showcased from Monday to Friday. 

M-Net’s CEO for South Africa, Yolisa Phahle, says that M-Net City is proof of the company’s commitment to continuously evaluate, adjust and reshuffle channel offerings in line with the ever-changing needs of viewers. “In 2014, M-Net upped the ante with M-Net Edge and VUZU AMP, to the delight of DStv Premium viewers. Now we have created M-Net City, a new channel that will enhance Compact viewers’ experience of international content.”

The schedule for the channel will be as follows:

- Weekdays between 17:00 and 19:00, the evening’s entertainment will kick off with popular talk shows;
- Weekdays at 19:00 and 19:30, it’s family comedy time;
- Weekdays at 20:00 and 21:00, the heroes and heroines of the best international action and crime series will take over the screen; and
- Saturdays and Sundays, M-Net City will bring viewers a variety of movies in early prime time, and from 19:30 it will follow the successful example of M-Net Edge with weekend binge sessions.
 
The M-Net Series Zone transmission will end on midnight on Sunday, 5 April 2015, and M-Net City will officially broadcast from the following day at 17:00. The current series offering on M-Net Series Zone will conclude before the channel becomes M-Net City.

For more information, visit www.mnet.tv.