Pay-TV provider MultiChoice has increased its reach by almost 4m people, the National Association of Broadcasters said on Tuesday.
NAB executive director Nadia Bulbulia presented these figures to the portfolio committee on communications at parliament.
MultiChoice increased its reach from 9,7m in 2012 to 13,4m in 2014.
However, SABC 1 continues to be the most watched channel in the country with 29,7m viewers, followed by SABC 2 with 27,4m.
In terms of the figures, M-Net had the smallest reach in 2014 with 2,6m, up by only 200 000 from 2012.
On radio, 2014 statistics shows SABC stations reached the widest audiences with 41,6m listeners.
This is followed by commercial stations having reached 15,7m listeners and community stations 8,7m.
Bulbulia pointed out that according to 2011 census statistics, TV surpassed radio in the number of users.
In 2001, 52,6% of South Africans had access to TV. This increased to 74,5% in 2011.
Some 72,1% of citizens had radios in 2001, compared to 67,5% in 2011. — Fin24