Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24264457-20190118145037/@comment-26573805-20190131154253

Redownloads and purchases have been shut down on the Wii Shop Channel (and I’d assume on JD as well), so you can no longer use existing Wii Points. I just checked. It now only shows titles you’ve already downloaded and you can no longer pay for or download any more titles, or view titles you haven't purchased or downloaded (or have deleted after downloading). It looks somewhat different now.

Of course, the Wii Shop Channel has not closed in the sense of going offline. As Nintendo said in the announcement released in September 2017, that’ll happen at a later, unspecified date, so that happening yesterday (as many people were assuming the announcement meant) is false. Only redownloads and purchases with existing Wii Points are disabled. So yes, the Wii Shop Channel (as far as viewing it goes) and its heavily worshiped tune still lives on.