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2023 GOtv packages and channel lists

GOtv packages and channles list and subscription price

The African most popular pay-TV GOtv offers different packages that suit your need and I am going to list all the GOtv packages and channel lists to help you choose from the various packages.

GOtv is a pay television service owned by Multichoice, which itself is also the parent company of DSTV, another popular pay television. Unlike DSTV, GOtv employs the use of terrestrial TV protocols to broadcast its signals. Opting for terrestrial technology rather than satellite communication ensures the subscription cost is kept low although at an expense: an outlay of quality.

In terrestrial broadcast, audio and picture quality is lesser than the former. This makes GOtv a less favourable pay-tv service compared with those transmitted through satellites to earth dishes.

GOtv came into the Nigerian market much later than DSTV. The purpose of its introduction is to capture the market left behind by DSTV due to the latter’s expensive subscription bouquets. Compared to DSTV subscription packages, GOtv subscriptions are way cheaper being that it uses terrestrial broadcast technology.

Another reason GOtv packages are cheap is that certain premium sporting events aren’t under those packages. This brings to bear the question of whether GOtv does broadcast football and other sporting events like the English Premier League.

Does GOtv Packages Broadcast EPL And UEFA Champions League Live Matches

Although exclusive licence to broadcast the English premier league has been offered Supersport, a splinter company of Multichoice, the Supersport EPL channel has yet to be added to any of GOtv’s package.

Notwithstanding, the ‘Supersport football’ channel available in some of GOtv’s packages broadcasts some premier league live matches, although not the cardinal ones. You wouldn’t also be able to watch live UEFA champions league matches on any of GOtv’s packages like the ‘SuperSport football plus’ channel which broadcast such is unavailable in any of the packages.

Pay Per View — Unavailable On GOtv

A pay per view payment model in respect to broadcast communication implies that a subscriber gets charged based on channels viewed daily rather than by a mandatory periodic charge with no regard to whether you accessed your TV under the period. With a pay per view mode,l you get served what you paid for during the period you so which.

Unfortunately, GOtv operates no such model. The only known broadcaster which offers such service is TSTV. Multichoice, when encouraged to follow in the same path, argued that the model is unachievable because unlike in telecommunication which such is employed in call billing, being a one-way communication, there is no way broadcasters can determine whether subscribers are viewing a particular channel at an instant.

However, although there’s no pay-per-view structure with GOtv, the subscription packages offered are quite affordable and all packed with exciting channels.

GOtv packages Subscription Bouquets And Channels

Before making a purchase and despite having knowledge of the affordability of the GOtv packages compared to similar ones from other brands, it is sensible to get a review of those packages. Doing so would ensure you subscribe to the package which suits your need. The packages are as follows:

Check out: GOtv Supa package, Channels, and Subscription price

S/NPackage/bouquetNumber of channelsPrice
GOtv supa80+₦5,500 monthly
1.GOtv Max75+₦4150 monthly
2.GOtv Jolli60+₦2,800 monthly
3.GOtv Jinja50+₦1,900 monthly
4.GOtv Smallie Monthly35+₦900
5.GOtv Smallie Yearly35+₦7000

GOtv Max Package

GOtv Max is the most pricey of all GOtv’s monthly packages. It features five sports channels: ESPN, SS football, SS Blitz, SS variety 3, and SS variety 4. These channels as explained above does broadcast live league matches but rarely feature live EPL, Laliga, or UEFA champions league games.

Favorite kid channels like Nickelodeon and Disney Junior are covered under the package. This is in addition to music channels like Soundcity and MTV base. Popular channels like Televista, Zee world, and African Magic channels are covered under the subscription.

They are two documentary channels, four children’s channels, two music channels, three religion, nine general entertainment and movies channels, twenty-one local channels, and three news and commerce channels. The full list of channels is as follows:

For those 90 channels, customers are to pay just N3,600 monthly.

GOtv Max Channel lists below:

Channel CategoriesChannel NamesAssigned Channel Numbers
GENERAL ENTERTAINMENTTrybe
TVC Entertainment
ONMAX
Africa Magic Epic
Africa Magic Hausa
Africa Magic Igbo
Africa Magic Yoruba
Sound City
E! Entertainment
FOX Life
Africa Magic Family
ROK 2
ROK 3
HIP TV
Televista
ROK GH
CBS Reality
FOX
B4U Movies
TNT Africa
BET
M-Net Movies 4
97
27
96
9
4
11
5
75
26
20
2
17
18
74
15
118
22
19
24
16
21
3
DOCUMENTARY, LIFESTYLE & EDUCATIONSpice TV
Real Time
Discovery Family
Nat Geo Wild
Discovery ID
10
12
50
51
52
SPORTSSuper Sports Blitz
SELECT Sports 2
SS Football Africa
ESPN
SS LaLiga Africa
SELECT Sports 1
30
34
31
37
32
33
NEWS & COMMERCEAl Jazeera
Arise News
Africa News
BBC World News
CNN International
40
44
47
41
42
42
KIDS & TEENSJim Jam
PBS Kids
Da Vinci Kids
Disney Junior
Nickelodeon
Cartoon Network
61
65
66
60
62
67
MUSICAFRO Music English
Sound City
URBAN TV
MTV Base
HIP TV
76
75
73
72
74
LOCAL CHANNELSAIT
BCOS
BISCON TV
CHANNELS
EBS
Galaxy TV
ITV Benin
LAGOS TV
Liberty TV
NTA 2
NTA International
NTA News 24
NTA Parliament
OGTV
ONMAX
RSTV
SILVERBIRD
TVC News Nigeria
WAP TV
Wazobia TV
Arewa 24
R2TV
RAVE
Sunna TV
Tiwa n Tiwa
93
105
108
95
104
99
107
90
110
114
91
146
115
100
96
103
92
45
102
98
101
112
113
84
111
RELIGIOUSFAITH
ISLAM CHANNEL
Emmanuel TV
Dove TV
80
81
82
83
AUDIONaija FM
Wazobia FM
301
303
NOVELLERSEVA +
TeleMundo
Zee World
Star Life
13
14
25
23

Gotv Jolli Package

The GOtv Jolli subscription package contains only 82 channels and is priced at N2,460 per month. The cheap pricing means subscribers are to acquaint themselves with only three sports channels.

There’s no live English premiership to expect on this package, and it is also obvious there’s no important live sporting events, if any, to be broadcasted on the few available football channels.

The full channels under the Jolli package includes

Channel CategoriesChannel NamesAssigned Channel Numbers
GENERAL ENTERTAINMENTTrybe
TVC Entertainment
ONMAX
Africa Magic Epic
Africa Magic Hausa
Africa Magic Igbo
Africa Magic Yoruba
Sound City
E! Entertainment
FOX Life
Africa Magic Family
ROK 2
ROK 3
HIP TV
Televista
ROK GH
CBS Reality
FOX
B4U Movies
TNT Africa
BET
97
27
96
9
4
11
5
75
26
20
2
17
18
74
15
118
22
19
24
16
21
DOCUMENTARY, LIFESTYLE & EDUCATIONSpice TV
Real Time
Discovery Family
Nat Geo Wild
10
12
50
51
SPORTSSuper Sports Blitz
SELECT Sports 2
SS Football Africa
30
34
31
NEWS & COMMERCEAl Jazeera
Arise News
Africa News
BBC World News
CNN International
40
44
47
41
42
42
KIDS & TEENSJim Jam
PBS Kids
Da Vinci Kids
Disney Junior
Nickelodeon
61
65
66
60
62
MUSICAFRO Music English
Sound City
URBAN TV
MTV Base
HIP TV
76
75
73
72
74
LOCAL CHANNELSAIT
BCOS
BISCON TV
CHANNELS
EBS
Galaxy TV
ITV Benin
LAGOS TV
Liberty TV
NTA 2
NTA International
NTA News 24
NTA Parliament
OGTV
ONMAX
RSTV
SILVERBIRD
TVC News Nigeria
WAP TV
Wazobia TV
Arewa 24
R2TV
RAVE
Sunna TV
Tiwa n Tiwa
93
105
108
95
104
99
107
90
110
114
91
146
115
100
96
103
92
45
102
98
101
112
113
84
111
RELIGIOUSFAITH
ISLAM CHANNEL
Emmanuel TV
Dove TV
80
81
82
83
AUDIONaija FM
Wazobia FM
301
303
NOVELLERSEVA +
TeleMundo
Zee World
13
14
25

GOTV Jinja Package

Priced N1,640 per month, the GOtv Jinja package makes for an exciting and affordable bouquet. However, the sport channels have been reduced to just two while the music channel is only one.

Summarily, there are one movie channel, seven general entertainment channels, two sports channels, three kids and teens channels, twenty local channels on GOtv Jinja bouquet.

The 57 channels on the GOtv Jinja are as follows

Channel CategoriesChannel NamesAssigned Channel Numbers
GENERAL ENTERTAINMENTTrybe
TVC Entertainment
ONMAX
Africa Magic Epic
Africa Magic Hausa
Africa Magic Igbo
Africa Magic Yoruba
Sound City
E! Entertainment
FOX Life
97
27
96
9
4
11
5
75
26
20
DOCUMENTARY, LIFESTYLE & EDUCATIONSpice TV
Real Time
10
12
SPORTSSuper Sports Blitz
SELECT Sports 2
30
34
NEWS & COMMERCEAl Jazeera
Arise News
40
44
KIDS & TEENSJim Jam
PBS Kids
Nickelodeon
61
65
62
MUSICAFRO Music English
Sound City
URBAN TV
76
75
73
LOCAL CHANNELSAIT
BCOS
BISCON TV
CHANNELS
EBS
Galaxy TV
ITV Benin
LAGOS TV
Liberty TV
NTA 2
NTA International
NTA News 24
NTA Parliament
OGTV
ONMAX
RSTV
SILVERBIRD
TVC News Nigeria
WAP TV
Wazobia TV
Arewa 24
R2TV
RAVE
Sunna TV
Tiwa n Tiwa
93
105
108
95
104
99
107
90
110
114
91
146
115
100
96
103
92
45
102
98
101
112
113
84
111
RELIGIOUSFAITH
ISLAM CHANNEL
Emmanuel TV
Dove TV
80
81
82
83
AUDIONaija FM
Wazobia FM
301
303

Gotv Smallie Package Monthly

Fully deserving of its name, the Smallie package is one for low budget subscribers who couldn’t do without family entertainment. The package has in its pack channels which would deservedly have been free-to-air, by reason of the fact that licences are not paid for by the pay-tv company to broadcast them.

The Smallie monthly package includes one sports channel, twenty local channels, one general entertainment channel, one child channel, two music channels, four religion channels, and four news and commerce channels.

The full channel list available on the GOtv Smallie package are as follows:

Channel CategoriesChannel NamesAssigned Channel Numbers
GENERAL ENTERTAINMENTTrybe
TVC Entertainment
ONMAX
97
27
96
DOCUMENTARY, LIFESTYLE & EDUCATIONSpice TV10
SPORTSSuper Sports Blitz30
NEWS & COMMERCEAl Jazeera40
KIDS & TEENSJim Jam61
MUSICAFRO Music Englis76
LOCAL CHANNELSAIT
BCOS
BISCON TV
CHANNELS
EBS
Galaxy TV
ITV Benin
LAGOS TV
Liberty TV
NTA 2
NTA International
NTA News 24
NTA Parliament
OGTV
ONMAX
RSTV
SILVERBIRD
TVC News Nigeria
WAP TV
Wazobia TV
Arewa 24
93
105
108
95
104
99
107
90
110
114
91
146
115
100
96
103
92
45
102
98
101
RELIGIOUSFAITH
ISLAM CHANNEL
Emmanuel TV
Dove TV
80
81
82
83
AUDIONaija FM
Wazobia FM
301
303

Gotv Smallie package Yearly

This package packs the same channels which the Smallie monthly has, with the difference being the price and duration of subscription. While the Smallie monthly serves a month’s duration, the Smallie Yearly package valids through twelve months (a year).

Subscribing to the yearly pack is much better and worthy a decision than going for the monthly pack. If the N6,200 subscription price is split into twelve month, each month’s payment would have been about N500; a much discounted sum.

See the list of channels available below

Channel CategoriesChannel NamesAssigned Channel Numbers
GENERAL ENTERTAINMENTTrybe
TVC Entertainment
ONMAX
97
27
96
DOCUMENTARY, LIFESTYLE & EDUCATIONSpice TV10
SPORTSSuper Sports Blitz30
NEWS & COMMERCEAl Jazeera40
KIDS & TEENSJim Jam61
MUSICAFRO Music Englis76
LOCAL CHANNELSAIT
BCOS
BISCON TV
CHANNELS
EBS
Galaxy TV
ITV Benin
LAGOS TV
Liberty TV
NTA 2
NTA International
NTA News 24
NTA Parliament
OGTV
ONMAX
RSTV
SILVERBIRD
TVC News Nigeria
WAP TV
Wazobia TV
Arewa 24
93
105
108
95
104
99
107
90
110
114
91
146
115
100
96
103
92
45
102
98
101
RELIGIOUSFAITH
ISLAM CHANNEL
Emmanuel TV
Dove TV
80
81
82
83
AUDIONaija FM
Wazobia FM
301
303

Read: GOtv Problems & Solutions (Activation, Fix Error)

How To Subscribe/ Make Payment For Any Of GOtv’s Bouquets

Subscribing to any of the above listed packages is easy, with different options made available to consider.

Through GOtv Physical Outlet

With your fund, head to any of GOtv’s offices with your decoder’s IUC number and request to make payment for a subscription.

You would be handed a receipt after making your payment, and your decoder would henceforth be activated for continued viewing.

Through The GOtv App

‘MyGOtv’ is the pay-tv’s self-service online-based application where several operations could be made without the services of GOtv staffs or representatives. One of such task is paying for a subscription, and that could be done by following the below steps:

  • Download, install and log into your MyGOtv mobile app. Sign up if required.
  • Locate and click on the menu button located on the top right of the app.
  • Click on the ‘Make a Payment’ tab.
  • Enter the amount to be paid.
  • Next you have to confirm your details and select your preferred payment options.
  • Complete the payment process and you’re done!

Read: GOtv Jolli and GOtv Jinja Channels and subscription prices

Through Any Other Online Payment Options

Aside from making a GOtv subscription through their dedicated app, there are other third-party platforms which do the same thing. They are:

How To Clear Gotv Errors

Errors regularly do hover on the screen of your TV set connected to a GOtv decoder. Most times, these errors come about due to no doings of yours. They could be cleared by following certain do-it-yourself instructions. Learn how to clear GOtv errors comfortably.

Aside operation in Nigeria, GOtv operates in some handful of African countries. There is a GOtv Kenya ,
GOtv Namibia, GOtv Ghana , GOtv Malawi, GOtv Zambia , GOtv Zimbabwe , GOtv
Mozambique and GOtv Uganda.

Read: GOtv customer care support (Email and Phone)

Complaints could be served GOtv Nigeria through the following mediums:

  • Physical office: Multichoice Nigeria Limited, Plot 1381 Tiamiyu Savage Street, Victoria Island, Lagos State
  • Facebook: facebook.com/GOtvNg
  • Twitter: twitter.com/GOtvNg
  • Email: GOtvNigeria@multichoice.co.za
  • Tel: +234 803 904 4688

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