Vuzu is a South African youth-oriented television channel produced by M-Net for sister pay television platform DStv.
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The channel launched in mid 2009, replacing the popular M-Net channel, Go. This occurred during the second phase of the network's reshuffle of its youth channel offering. Vuzu is typically geared towards the 14-23 age demographic.
Its launch also coincided with the launch of the virtual social network "Vuzu.tv," in an effort to make the channel far more interactive than its predecessor. The first program to broadcast was the popular show now known as Touch TV, which airs at 16:00 (previously 17:00 ). Many Go viewers protested the launch of the channel as it caused a number of go's programs to move to new time slots, channels or disappear completely.
Go was a a TV channel on the DStv satellite network. The channel was broadcast on DStv channel 84. After a channel shuffle by DStv in October 2007, go was moved to channel 123. go was a channel for preteens, teens and twenty-somethings. Programming on go included sitcoms, soaps, comedy shows, series and plenty of music shows.
On Tuesday 23 June 2009, go (Channel 123) was terminated and was replaced on Wednesday 1 July 2009 at 5:00pm a with a brand new cutting-edge channel, namely Vuzu. Much of go's programming was transferred to Vuzu. Vuzu’s viewer-centric programming mix includes international shows like Gossip Girl, Entourage, The Simpsons, Kyle XY, South Park as well as new locally produced shows like The Verge.
Vuzu is similar to some popular American TV Channels such as Bravo, FX, B.E.T, The CW, NBC, TNT and many others. With new episodes being aired every month making it a world class Youth Channel.
V Entertainment is a parody on similar show E Entertainment. It broadcasts Mondays to Fridays a 7 ET and simulcasts with Magicworld. It is the channel's flagship show. It has a news stream at the bottom of the screen about user activity on the Vuzu.tv network. Some other shows such as Project Runway.