Black, the streaming video entertainment platform owned by Cell C, has announced it will cut the price of its premium subscription plan by 80%.
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Streaming music service Deezer – a competitor to Spotify, Apple Music and Google Music – said on Monday that it is adding local radio stations to its platform.
South African soccer legend Jomo Sono, president of Infinivy SA, is behind a new free-to-air Internet streaming platform in South Africa called TV2GO, offering viewers over 100 linear channels and on-demand content.
Telkom said on Thursday that it has reached a partnership with Netflix to offer the global streaming giant’s service on its LIT set-top box.
The current board and CEO of the SABC are the strongest the public broadcaster has had in at least 15 years. They should be left to get on with the job of repairing the damage caused by their predecessors.
The SABC on Wednesday set out in detail why it needs to retrench staff, with group CEO Madoda Mxakwe saying the public broadcaster is “technically insolvent”.
The SABC is set to retrench almost a third of its workforce. The public broadcaster set out restructuring plans on Monday evening in which it said as many as 981 of its approximately 3 400 permanent employees may be retrenched.
Communications minister Nomvula Mokonyane said the delays in digital migration are a concern as they are proving costly for government and industry.
Naspers has announced a management shake-up at MultiChoice, with the creation of a new MultiChoice Group business (formerly Naspers Video Entertainment), which will be headed by Calvo Mawela.
Netflix is once again turning to the junk-bond market to fund new programming as the streaming video giant seeks to maintain its torrid subscriber growth.