M-Net Movies 1 was seen as the flagship brand amongst the 4 movie channels often serving as a timeshift brand to M-Net's movie offering. It's likely that Canal+ grew tired of this and felt that M-Net Movies could operate more independently.
Another reason which I reported earlier in the year, M-Net Movies 2 transitioned from being an action movie channel to an events channel. This created even more overlapping not only with M-Net Movies 1 but also M-Net Movies 3 and 4.
With the closure of M-Net Movies 1, it will be interesting to see how Canal+ will handle these brands going forward and whether the open window for the newer films is widened.
Majority of lower tiered DStv consumers do get a lot of their new movies much quicker from Studio Universal and TNT than they would M-Net Movies. Not that the channel hasn't rolled new films but these other two focus on bigger franchises.
The most notable would be Robert Patterson's The Batman (2022) on TNT with Clifford The Big Red Dog (2019) on M-Net Movies 3.
KykNET Lekker was an Afrikaans entertainment channel tailor made for DStv Access offering content viewed on other KykNET channels. This was meant to give consumers an open window to shows like Binnelanders, Suidooster and Jy Is My Seun.
Now MultiChoice will be ripping this content away from DStv Access consumers meaning you would need to upgrade to DStv Family which is R370 per month to watch these titles on KykNET & Kie.
It has been alleged that KykNET Lekker didn't have much viewers on these packages with it's audience numbers alleged to be sitting around 3000 to 6000 viewers. As Moja 9.9. which is also curated for the same package had surpassed 100,000 viewers.
MultiChoice would have lost 11 channels before the end of September and this would include BET, MTV Base, CBS Justice, CBS Reality, TLNovelas, Magic Showcase and CineMagic. A majority of these channels were tailored for DStv Access.
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