GOtv Nigeria is one of the most widely used pay-TV services in Nigeria as it has grown over the years to become a giant contributor to what is consumed on television around the country. Owned by the broadcasting company, MultiChoice, GOtv now has steep competition with the presence of other pay-TV services like StarTimes Nigeria and others.
Competition from other Pay-TV services in Nigeria has compelled GOtv to be on its toes. In recent times, there has been a big move to upgrade its services with the introduction of new bouquets and the pashing out of older ones. At the moment, GOtv Nigeria has a number of bouquets including GOtv Max, GOtv Jinja, GOtv Jolli, and GOtv Smallie and they all have their different perks.
GOtv Max Bouquet Holds Sway With 90 Channels
As the name suggests, GOtv Max is currently the biggest bouquet on GOtv Nigeria. It has the most number of channels and is also the most expensive one to purchase. The bouquet comes with a vast array of entertainment programs ranging from movies to novellas as well as sports and news. At the moment, the bouquet costs N3,600 per month.
The Max bouquet comes with an amazing 90 channels and contains some of the world’s most popular channels like BET, E! as well as many local Nigerian channels. Let’s take a look at all the channels that come with GOtv Max below.
GOtv Max Channels
The 90 channels on the Max bouquet are divided into different sections. The bouquet comes with the following:
- 4 Novella Channels including Telemundo, Eva +, Zee World, and Star Life.
- 5 Documentary, Lifestyle & Education channels including Discovery Family, Real Time, NatGeo Wild, Spice TV, and Discovery ID.
- 14 General Entertainment channels including E! Entertainment, Fox, Fox Life, BET, CBS Reality, AfricaMagic Family, AfricaMagic Hausa, AfricaMagic Yoruba,
AfricaMagic Igbo, ROK 3, ROK 2, TVC Entertainment, Televista, and Trybe.
- 5 Sports Channels including ESPN, SS Blitz, SS Football, SS Variety 3, and SS Variety 4.
- 2 Audio Channels including Naija FM, and Wazobia FM.
- 6 Kids and Teens including Nickelodeon, Disney Junior, Jim Jam, Da Vinci Kids, PBS Kids, and Cartoon Network.
- 12 Nigerian Channels only on GOtv including AfricaMagic Epic, AfricaMagic Family, AfricaMagic Hausa, AfricaMagic Yoruba, AfricaMagic Igbo, ROK 3, ROK 2, Spice TV, Televista, Trybe, HIP TV, and Sound City.
- 5 Music Channels including MTV Base, Hip TV, AFRO Music English, Sound City, and Urban TV.
- 4 Religion Channels including Faith, Islam Channel, Emmanuel TV, and Dove TV.
- 7 News and Commerce channels including NTA Parliament, BBC World News, CNN International, Al Jazeera, Arise News, TVC News, and NTA News24.
- 4 Movie channels including TNT Africa, M-Net Movies 4, AfricaMagic Epic and B4U Movies.
- 22 Local Channels including ITV Benin, BISCON tv, Liberty TV, Tiwa n Tiwa, RAVE, R2TV, NTA2, NTA International, Silverbird, AIT, Channels, Lagos TV, Wazobia TV, Arewa 24, WAP TV, EBS TV, RSTV, OGtv, BCOS, ONMAX, and Galaxy TV
GOtv Max is considered to be the most complete bouquet on GOtv Nigeria especially because of its incredibly vast array of channels available to choose from. If you want to enjoy holistic entertainment in every sphere, this is the bouquet to pick.
However, despite the pros, the con remains the cost. Many Nigerians have complained of the high cost of subscribing to the Max bouquet. If you one person who does not see N3,600 as too big to give away every month, then this bouquet is the perfect fit for you.
GOtv Jolli Bouquet Boasts 82 Channels
The GOtv Jolli bouquet comes with 82 different channels to pick from, and, just like GOtv Max, it also boasts of being highly entertaining as many of the channels are very engaging. At the moment, GOtv Jollu costs about N2,460 per month.
GOtv Jolli contains popular news, movies, and sports channels. Let’s take a look at the different available channels below.
GOtv Jolli channels
- 3 Novella channels including Telemundo, Eva +, and Zee World.
- 4 Documentary, Lifestyle & Education channels including Discovery Family, Real Time, NatGeo Wild, and Spice TV.
- 13 General Entertainment channels including E! Entertainment Television, FOX, FOX Life, CBS Reality, AfricaMagic Family, AfricaMagic Hausa, AfricaMagic Yoruba, AfricaMagic Igbo, ROK 3, ROK 2, TVC Entertainment, Televista, and Trybe tv.
- 3 Sports channels including SS Blitz, SS Football, and SS Variety 4.
- 2 Audio channels including Naija FM and Wazobia FM.
- 5 Kids and Teens channels including Nickelodeon, Disney Junior, Jim Jam, PBS Kids, and Da Vinci Kids.
- 12 Nigerian Channels only on GOtv including AfricaMagic Epic, AfricaMagic Family, AfricaMagic Hausa, AfricaMagic Yoruba, AfricaMagic Igbo, ROK3, ROK 2, Spice TV, Televista, Trybe, HIP TV, and Sound City.
- 5 Music channels including MTV Base, Hip TV, AFRO Music English, Sound City, and Urban TV.
- 4 Religion channels including Faith, Islam Channel, Emmanuel TV, and Dove TV.
- 7 News and Commerce channels including NTA Parliament, BBC World News, CNN International, Al Jazeera, Arise News, TVC News, and NTA News24.
- 3 Movie channels including AfricaMagic Epic, TNT Africa, and B4U Movies.
- 21 Local channels including ITV Benin, BISCON tv, Liberty TV, Tiwa n Tiwa, R2TV, RAVE, NTA2, NTA International, Silverbird, AIT, Channels, LagosTV, Wazobia TV, Arewa 24, WAP TV, EBS TV, OGtv, BCOS, ONMAX, ONMAX., and Galaxy TV.
It is interesting to note that the GOtv Jolli bouquet is almost the same as the Max bouquet with only a few channels missing out. To save money and still be able to catch premium entertainment, then this is the perfect fit. But if you’re a lover of Sports, you might want to go with GOtv Max as that contains two extra sports channels.
GOtv Jinja Is Next In Line With 57 Channels
GOtv Jinja comes after GOtv Jolli and it contains considerably fewer channels. And, of course, it is cheaper to pay for. At the moment, the bouquet costs about N1,640 per month. The bouquet comes with as many as 57 channels.
Let’s have a look at these channels below:
GOtv Jinja channels
- 1 Movie channel namely AfricaMagic Epic
- 2 Documentary, Lifestyle & Education channels including Real Time and Spice TV.
- 7 General Entertainment channels including E! Entertainment Television, FOX Life, AfricaMagic Hausa, AfricaMagic Yoruba, AfricaMagic Igbo, TVC Entertainment, and Trybe.
- 2 Sports channels including SS Blitz and SS Variety 4.
- 2 Audio channels including Naija FM and Wazobia FM.
- 3 Kids and Teens channels including Nickelodeon, Jim Jam, and PBS Kids.
- 3 Music channels including AFRO Music English, Sound City, and Urban TV.
- 7 Nigerian Channels only on GOtv including AfricaMagic Epic, AfricaMagic Hausa,
AfricaMagic Yoruba, AfricaMagic Igbo, Spice TV, Trybe, and Sound City.
- 4 Religion channels including Faith, Islam Channel, Emmanuel TV and Dove TV.
- 5 News and Commerce including NTA Parliament, Al Jazeera, Arise News, TVC News, and NTA News24.
- 21 Local channels including ITV Benin, BISCON tv, Liberty TV, Tiwa n Tiwa, RAVE, R2TV, NTA2, NTA International, Silverbird, AIT, Channels, Lagos TV, Wazobia TV, Arewa 24, WAP TV, EBS TV, OGtv, BCOS, ONMAX, ONMAX., and Galaxy TV.
The Jinja bouquet is not as enthralling as the first two bouquets mentioned above. However, the cost matches its fewer number of channels.
GOtv Smallie Offers The Cheapest Plan
The GOtv Smallie is the cheapest bouquet on GOtv Nigeria and also comes with the least number of channels. The bouquet comes with just 36 channels and costs just N800 per month to subscribe.
Below are the channels found on the bouquet.
GOtv Smallie channels
- 1 Nigerian Channel only on GOtv namely Spice TV.
- 1 General Entertainment channel namely TVC Entertainment
- 1 Sports channel namely SS Blitz
- 2 Audio channels including Naija FM, and Wazobia FM.
- 1 Kids and Teens channel namely PBS Kids
- 4 Religion channels including Faith, Islam Channel, Dove TV, Emmanuel TV.
- 2 Music channels including AFRO Music English, and Urban TV.
- 4 News and Commerce channels including NTA Parliament, Al Jazeera, TVC News, NTA News24.
- 20 Local channels including ITV Benin, BISCON tv, Liberty TV, RAVE, R2TV, NTA2, NTA International, Silverbird, AIT, Channels, Lagos TV, Wazobia TV, Arewa 24, WAP TV, EBS TV, RSTV, OGtv, BCOS, ONMAX., Galaxy TV.
Apparently, the Smallie bouquet does not offer the kind of excitement that the other bouquets offer. However, you can save money with the bouquet. GOtv Smallie is the perfect fit for you if you’re saving for a long-term project. This is because this bouquet offers monthly, quarterly, and annual payment options.
For one month you can NGN 800 to enjoy the service and you can pay NGN 2100 to enjoy the service quarterly. For one year, you can enjoy the service for just NGN 6200. So, for instance, instead of paying N3,600 every month for the Max bouquet, you can just pay N6,200 for an entire year for GOtv Smallie, That will save you a lot of money for what you have to do.
Before GOtv Jinja and Jolli, There Was GOtv Value And GOtv Plus
It is noteworthy that GOtv Jinja and GOtv Jolli are actually new bouquets that were introduced in mid-2020. Before their arrival, GOtv Nigeria had other bouquets called GOtv Value and GOtv Plus.
However, in June 2020, the media company released a statement explaining that GOtv Plus and GOtv Value was going to be phased out and be replaced with GOtv Jolli and GOtv Jinja which will have more entertainment as more channel would come with them.
Effective 1 June, GOtv Value & GOtv Plus packages will be phased out and customers migrated to the brand new GOtv JINJA & GOtv JOLLI; packaged exclusively for Naija.
Take advantage of the upgrade offer now.
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— GOtv Nigeria (@GOtvNg) May 7, 2020
This announcement was met with displeasure among many subscribers and got mixed reactions on social media. Some people complained that new plans were not as favorable to them as the previous ones especially in the area of pricing.