SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng says the public broadcaster will now launch with only five television channels once the long-delayed commercial start of South Africa’s switch from analogue to digital broadcasting begins. When
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Democratic Alliance MP Gavin Davis has lambasted parliament’s portfolio committee on communications for endorsing minister Faith Muthambi’s management of her department and of the
The SABC and MultiChoice will launch its rerun entertainment channel, called SABC Encore, on 11 May on DStv. The launch of SABC Encore, which formerly would have been called SABC Entertainment
The SABC will lodge an “immediate appeal” against the ruling handed down on Thursday that SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng be suspended. The public broadcaster will lodge
DStv parent MultiChoice did not force the SABC to agree not to carry its free-to-air channels on broadcasting platforms that use encryption and a clause to this effect in a channel supply agreement
MultiChoice has come out swinging against Caxton after the newspaper publisher and two public broadcasting advocacy groups accused the pay-television operator of concluding a deal with the
South Africa still hasn’t switched on commercial digital terrestrial television broadcasts, but that isn’t holding back the broadcasting industry from running trials to test digital radio broadcasts based on Digital Audio Broadcasting and Digital Radio Mondiale
Pro-government newspaper The New Age received an advertising injection of more than R2m from the department of higher education, which joins a host of other departments in directing advertising
Yunus Carrim’s appointment as minister of communications in July 2013 was greeted with apprehension. The avowed communist’s expertise lay with the local government sector. He knew nothing about technology. In fact, he joked at the time that he barely knew
The SABC is set to spend R100m more on staff salaries and paying board members. This is according to the public broadcaster’s new corporate plan for 2015/2016 to 2017/2018, which also says revenues are “constrained” amid advertisers cutting back “as a result of