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Sweeping management changes at MultiChoice
Nyiko Shiburi has been appointed as CEO of MultiChoice South Africa, replacing Mark Rayner, as the pay-television group announces sweeping management changes.
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MultiChoice shrugs off Netflix threat, delivers strong full-year results
MultiChoice Group has reported a 14% improvement in trading profit to R8-billion for the year ended 31 March 2020, despite a tough economic environment and the growing threat of Netflix.
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MultiChoice blasts Yunus Carrim over ‘capture’ allegations
MultiChoice has strongly criticised former communications minister Yunus Carrim, who on Tuesday told the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into state capture that a controversial 2013 channel supply agreement between MultiChoice and the SABC amounted to “policy capture”.
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Vast Networks liquidation: ‘No one wanted to sign on the dotted line’
MultiChoice Group and Dimension Data decided to liquidate Vast Networks, South Africa’s largest public Wi-Fi hotspot provider, after several attempts to sell the business fell through.
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Imtiaz Patel to relinquish executive MultiChoice role
Long-serving MultiChoice Group director Imtiaz Patel will relinquish his executive duties in September 2020, the pay-television broadcaster said on Tuesday.
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Why investors rejected MultiChoice’s pay plan
Shareholders in MultiChoice, which was unbundled from Naspers on 4 March, rejected the group’s executive pay at Thursday’s AGM.
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DStv workers to strike in protest at layoffs
The Information Communication Technology Union will lead its members at MultiChoice South Africa out on strike on Friday to protest job cuts at the pay-television operator.
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How much MultiChoice bosses are paid
MultiChoice Group executive chairman Imtiaz Patel received almost $1.5-million (about R21.4-million at the time of writing) in base salary, bonuses, pension and short-term incentives in the 2019 financial year.
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Jobs bloodbath looming at MultiChoice
A jobs bloodbath is looming at pay-television operator MultiChoice Group, which said on Friday it will enter into a “consultation process” with 2 194 of its employees as part of a “strategic realignment of its customer service delivery model”.
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Icasa to probe contentious TV must-carry regulations
Icasa has decided to conduct an inquiry into the so-called “must-carry regulations”, which allow MultiChoice and other pay-television operators to carry the SABC public service channels at no cost.