MultiChoice won't be showg any queer ntent on DStv Uganda after the ernment passed s anti-gay bill.
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- DSTV UGANDA WON'T SHOW GAY NTENT AFTER HARSH LGBTQIA+ LAW
- TV SHOW ABOUT GAY TEENAGER WON'T BE BROADST ON DSTV SA
DSTV UGANDA WON'T SHOW GAY NTENT AFTER HARSH LGBTQIA+ LAW
MultiChoice won't be showg any queer ntent on DStv after Uganda's print Yoweri Meveni signed one of the world's tought anti-LGBTQIA+ laws, cludg the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy, " on Monday. MultiChoice won't be showg any queer ntent on DStv Uganda after the ernment passed s anti-gay Monday, Uganda's print Yoweri Meveni signed one of the world's tought anti-LGBTQIA+ laws, cludg the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy" – laws that now cree a 20-year sentence for "promotg" MORE | Outcry as Uganda's anti-gay bill signed to lawIn rponse to a media query askg s view, MultiChoice said would adhere to Uganda's laws. Shiftg strategiWhat is apparent is that stead of outright censorg LGBTQIA+ ntent, MultiChoice, over the past number of years, has shifted s programmg and ntent allotn approach two very specific ways rponse to growg anti-gay sentiment parts of Ai.
Ai, after plats and a DStv ban July 2016, Via Internatnal Media Networks Ai, now Paramount Global, said would censor an episo of The Loud Hoe on Nickeloon and won't be broadstg on s lear channel on DStv Ai sce featured animated gay June 2017, the Kenya Film Classifitn Board (KFCB) banned 7 kids' rtoons for bog reasons like one character havg "a dick for a head" and that another two characters of the same genr went on an (unseen) "implied romantic vatn", orrg MultiChoice Ai to remove The Loud Hoe, The Legend of Korra, Hey Arnold!, Clarence, Steven Universe, Adventure Time and Star vs.
TV SHOW ABOUT GAY TEENAGER WON'T BE BROADST ON DSTV SA
The Forc of Evil om DStv bee of "homosexual them" November 2017, Kenya banned the Disney Channel show Andi Mack bee featured a gay teenager, keepg off televisn across Ai, cludg South Ai. M-Net (DStv 101), which has different regnalised channel feeds for South, East, and Wt Ai, is pro-actively keepg certa ntent away om DStv subscribers East and Wt Ai which are shown South Ai whout any plats, where the same timlot on the DStv gui is filled wh other March this year, eMedia lnched Openview Ultra as a pay-TV add-on for s fast-growg Openview ee-to-air satelle TV service South Ai and started wh a gay bouquet nsistg of the OUTtv and Fe TV channels at a subscriptn fee of R75 per month.
The gay-foced OUTtv channel will only be available South Ai and nowhere else Ai where anised opposn and ristance to the broadst of "pro-gay" televisn ntent the past few years have land Naspers' MultiChoice pay-TV arm and channel distributors hot water wh the rt of the ntent's censorship board and regulators. MultiChoice told TVwhTh rponse to a media enquiry askg why OUTtv will only be available to DStv Premium and DStv Compact Pl South Ai specifilly, that MultiChoice only cleared the ntent rights of the gay programmg for this specific market.
Tl on OUTtv will range om RuPl’s Drag Race All Stars, Big Freedia Queen of Bounce, Atralian seri like Deep Water and Wentworth, Degrassi: Next Generatn and Hey Qween!, as well as OUTtv origal seri Knock Knock Ghost, Sex & Vlence, Shadowlands, The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula and Don’t Qu Your Gay Job. MultiChoice was asked whether OUTtv will e wh a general age rtrictn, like for stance 13PG, but the pay-TV operator says OUTtv is stctured and programmed as a liftyle channel and that the channel's gay ntent won't rry any overall age blockg South Ai.