In the dying minutes of the year 2025, Canal+ and Warner Bros. Discovery finally signed a new multi-year deal that will keep WBD’s 12 TV channels on DStv. The satellite TV service had been set to lose 16 channels at the turn of the year, but now the number will just be 4: Paramount’s MTV Base, BET Africa, and CBS AMC’s CBS Reality and CBS Justice.
The new agreement not only extends access to the 12 channels but HBO content on M-Net (DStv 101), and the roll-out of the HBO Max streamer in 2026 in Africa as a tile through MultiChoice.
The 12 channels which got an extension are Discovery Channel, TLC Africa, Discovery Family, Real Time, TNT Africa, Food Network, Travel Channel, Investigation Discovery (Discovery ID), Cartoon Network, Cartoonito and CNN International.
In a press statement Canal+ said the “expanded agreement covers both the distribution of HBO Max and the renewal of several Warner Bros. Discovery thematic channels across numerous regions in Africa and Europe”.
“This agreement enables Canal+ to strengthen its entertainment, kids, news, and documentary channel offerings in African markets.”
