Web cameras on Friday morning displayed images of deserted highways across Gauteng as the first day of a three-week, government-ordered lockdown began to fight the spread of Covid-19.
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MultiChoice-owned video-on-demand provider Showmax has added seven live news channels to the platform to keep subscribers up to date during South Africa’s Covid-19 lockdown.
Ster-Kinekor, South Africa’s largest cinema chain, is closed with immediate effect. The company said it’s theatres will remain closed from Wednesday until further notice.
Movie theatre company Nu Metro is closing all its cinema complexes and accompanying operations with immediate effect, it said on Tuesday.
YouTube will reduce the quality of videos around the world starting on Tuesday, an effort by the world’s most popular video site to ease Internet traffic during the coronavirus outbreak.
Netflix will temporarily reduce the quality of videos on its platform to ease pressure on Internet service providers during the coronavirus outbreak.
Ster-Kinekor, South Africa’s largest cinema chain, is suspending morning and evening movie screenings until further notice in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19.
For years, television executives have fretted there is too much TV. Now, with the coronavirus looming large, they are worried there might not be enough.
MultiChoice Group-owned pay-television service DStv is offering free access to its 24-hour news channels, including to non-subscribers, it said in a statement on its website.
The SABC has moved to justify its decision to fire former chief operating officer Chris Maroleng, saying he was charged for breaching his fiduciary duties as a director and for “gross negligence”.