DStv Nigeria: newly proposed prices and available channels

Beginning from the 1st of August 2018, there will be an increase in the price of DStv and GOtv packages.

Subscribers on GOtv Max package will, however, enjoy a decrease from N3, 800 to N3, 200 while the prices on GOtv Plus, GOTV Value and GOtv Lite packages remain fixed at N1, 900, N1, 250 and N400 respectively.

Below are the newly proposed prices of the various DStv packages.

Package	No. of Channels	Old Price	New Price
Premium	185	N14,700	N15,800
Compact Plus	176	N9,900	N10,650
Compact	167	N6,300	N6,800
Family	111	N3,800	N4,000
Access	92	N1,900	N2,000

The premium package has 185 Channels, with 6 channels dedicated to Lifestyle and Culture.

• BBC Lifestyle
• Food Network
• Spice TV
• Fashion One
• Discovery IDx
• Discovery TLC Entertainment

12 Channels are dedicated to local news.

• NTA International
• Silverbird
• AIT
• Channels
• MiTV
• Lagos TV
• Wazobia Max
• Arewa 24
• WAP
• K24
• Joy News
• Adom TV

The other categories include

Sport (13)
Children (11)
Music (7)
News and Commerce (15)
Documentary (7)
Entertainment and Movies (47)
Specialist (11)
Religion (9)
Audio (47)

The Compact Plus package has 176 channels  

Lifestyle and Culture (6)
Sport (9)
Local Channels (12)
Children (11)
Music (7) MTV BASE, TRACE Mziki, Hip TV, TRACE Naija, AFRO Music English, SoundCity, and Planet Radio TV.

News and Commerce (15)
Documentary (7)
Entertainment and Movies (42)
Specialist (11)
Religion (9)
Audio (47)

The Compact package has 167 channels  

Lifestyle and Culture (6)
Sport (7)

• SuperSport Blitz
• SuperSport 3 (HD/SD)
• SuperSport 4 (HD/SD)
• SuperSport 7
• SuperSport 8
• SuperSport 9
• SuperSport 10

Local Channels (12)
Children (11)
Music (7)
News and Commerce (15)
Documentary (4)
Entertainment and Movies (38)
Specialist (11)
Religion (9)
Audio (47)

The Family package has 111 channels with 4 channels dedicated to Lifestyle and Culture.

• BBC Lifestyle
• Food Network
• Spice TV
• Fashion One

The other categories include

Sport (6)
Local Channels (12)
Children (7)
Music (6)
News and Commerce (14)
Documentary (3)
Entertainment and Movies (28)
Specialist (11)
Religion (9)
Audio (11)

The Access package has 92 channels, with 2 channels dedicated to Lifestyle and Culture.

• Spice TV
• Fashion One

The other categories include

Sport (4)
Local Channels (12)
Children (4)
Music (5)
News and Commerce (13)
Documentary (3) Discovery Family, Nat Geo Wild and CGTN Documentary.

Entertainment and Movies (18)
Specialist (11)
Religion (9)
Audio (11)

Ever wished you could select and pay for only the channels you want to watch on DStv? Well, the Chief Executive Officer of MultiChoice, Calvo Mawela explained that this will attract considerably higher costs if the model is adopted.