GOtv Max Channels List in Nigeria, Now That Max Has Gone
GOtv Max no longer exists and GOtv names no successor. By our reading the nearest is Select at ₦11,000 a month. Its channels, with their numbers.
Max has gone from GOtv Nigeria, along with its ₦8,500 price, and its page on GOtv’s site no longer opens. GOtv now sells Easy, Starter, Select and Sports, and it has not said which one takes over from Max.
Our reading is Select, at ₦11,000 a month. Price does not settle it, because Max sat exactly ₦2,500 from both Starter and Select, and on the headline count Starter’s 68+ is a little nearer than Select’s 87+. What you keep settles it: Select has SuperSport Football and 71 of the 76 channels on Max’s page, where Starter loses SuperSport Football and keeps 63.
Channels on GOtv Select, with numbers
This is GOtv’s Select page in text, grouped as GOtv groups it. The 19 in bold are not on Starter, so strike those out and you have the ₦6,000 package.
| Type | Channels and their numbers |
|---|---|
| General entertainment (17) | Africa Magic Yoruba (2), Africa Magic Hausa (3), Africa Magic Igbo (4), Africa Magic Family (7), Africa Magic Showcase (8), ROK 2 (10), Trybe (13), Televista (14), Zee World (30), Star Life (31), Telemundo (33), Novelas+ (34), Real Time (35), Bravo (36), Discovery Family (37), MTV (41), WWE (69) |
| Movies (8) | Africa Magic Epic (6), ROK (9), M-Net Movies+ (11), M-Net Legends (50), Movie Room (51), TNT Africa (52), M-Net Stars (53), KIX (55) |
| Sport (7) | ESPN (56), SportyTV (58), SuperSport Blitz (60), SuperSport Kickoff (61), SuperSport Africa (62), SuperSport LaLiga (63), SuperSport Football (65) |
| Children (8) | Jim Jam (80), Nick Jr. (81), Disney Junior (82), Moonbug Kids (85), NickToons (86), Nickelodeon (87), Cartoon Network (89), Disney Channel (92) |
| News (9) | News Central (23), Arise News (24), TVC News (25), NTA News 24 (26), Channels (27), BBC World News (70), Al Jazeera (71), CNN (72), NTA Parliament (126) |
| Music (5) | Sound City (21), Hip TV (22), Base Pulse (40), Trace Naija (46), Trace Gospel (47) |
| Lifestyle (3) | Spice TV (19), The Wedding Channel (105), BBC Lifestyle (106) |
| Documentary (2) | Nat Geo Wild (100), National Geographic (101) |
| Religious (4) | Faith (110), Islam Channel (111), Dove TV (113), Sunna TV (114) |
| Local (24) | TVC Entertainment (16), Afia TV (17), Tozali TV (18), NTA News 24 (26), Catholic TV (115), Lagos TV (120), Silverbird (121), AIT (122), NTA International (124), NTA 2 (125), NTA Parliament (126), Wazobia TV (128), WAP TV (129), Tiwa N Tiwa (131), OGTV (133), BCOS (134), Arewa 24 (136), Liberty TV (137), ITV Benin (140), EBS (141), RSTV (142), Biscon TV (144), R2TV (145), Rave TV (146) |
GOtv sells Select as 87+, which is what those groups add up to, but NTA News 24 and NTA Parliament appear twice, so it comes to 85 different channels. Max was sold as 75+, and its page showed 74 TV channels and two radio stations.
Sports, at ₦21,000, is this whole list and seven more: Universal TV (38), Studio Universal (54), ESPN 2 (57), SuperSport Premier League (64), SuperSport Football Plus (66), SuperSport Action (67) and SuperSport Variety 1 (68).
What Max had that Select does not list
Five things from Max’s page are missing: Cine Magic, Investigation Discovery, ONMAX and the Naija FM and Wazobia FM radio stations. None of the five is on any of the new package pages, so paying more does not bring them back.
In return Select shows 14 channels Max’s page did not: M-Net Movies+, M-Net Stars, ROK, KIX, Africa Magic Showcase, Novelas+, Base Pulse, SportyTV, WWE, Nick Jr., NickToons, Disney Channel, National Geographic and BBC Lifestyle.
Football after Max
SuperSport Football and SuperSport LaLiga were the reason to buy Max, and both are on Select, under new numbers. LaLiga moved from 62 to 63 and SuperSport Football from 64 to 65, while ESPN went from 68 to 56 and SuperSport Africa from 63 to 62. Old habits will mislead you here: 56 used to be Cine Magic.
If La Liga is all you watched, Starter has SuperSport LaLiga for ₦6,000, which is less than Max cost. If the Premier League was the frustration on Max, the channel for it is still a level up: SuperSport Premier League is on Sports alone. GOtv describes Select’s football as “select football content” and does not list the matches, so the TV guide is the place to check a fixture.
What a year costs against Max
GOtv prices all four by the month.
| Package | Per month | Twelve months | Against Max over a year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | ₦6,000 | ₦72,000 | ₦30,000 less |
| Max, now gone | ₦8,500 | ₦102,000 | The same |
| Select | ₦11,000 | ₦132,000 | ₦30,000 more |
| Sports | ₦21,000 | ₦252,000 | ₦150,000 more |
₦30,000 a year buys back SuperSport Football, CNN, Nickelodeon and the film channels. A home that wants none of those should take Starter, whose list is in our page on GOtv Plus channels. A home that can put up a dish should price DStv Select as well: it is also ₦11,000, with 131+ channels, and the sums are under DStv decoders and prices.
If your decoder is on Max now
MultiChoice says active subscribers move automatically from 5 November to the corresponding package, with at least the content they had and no charge for the move. It has not said which package that is for Max. A promise of at least the same content points to Select, but that is our inference and not its statement, so see what the MyGOtv app shows and change package there if you would rather have another. If you paid several months ahead, you keep what you paid for until that time runs out.
All of this is GOtv Nigeria. GOtv Kenya has moved to the same four names, while GOtv Ghana’s site still sells a package called Max. You can see all four packages side by side under GOtv packages and prices.
