When Chinese media company StarTimes entered Ivory Coast’s pay-TV market two years ago, Canal+ appeared to take notice. A few months later, the unit of France’s Vivendi cut the cost of its decoder by a third. StarTimes has
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Naspers’s video entertainment segment – in effect, the MultiChoice business – has grown revenue by 8% to US$3.7-billion in the year ended 31 March 2018, despite warning of tougher competition from online streaming video
Netflix is making significant inroads in South Africa, disrupting pay-television behemoth MultiChoice by providing a cheaper, more convenient and non-linear way of watching TV content. The streaming content provider is drawing
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eMedia Holdings, which indirectly owns e.tv, OpenView HD and 24-hour news channel eNCA, has report a R1.6bn loss for the 2018 financial year, from a profit in 2017 of R160m. Revenue fell from R2.3bn to R2.2bn
Netflix does not pose a threat to job creation in South Africa’s sector and the “hype” surrounding the US online streaming service is “exaggerated”. That’s according to Surie Ramasary, CEO of Black, the new streaming
In the TalkCentral podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about the new cryptocurrency “ATM” installed at Duncan’s local Spar in Johannesburg. Also this week, the latest on the Electronic Communications
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, MultiChoice South Africa CEO Calvo Mawela returns to the show to discuss communications regulator Icasa’s inquiry into the pay-television industry and the future of the
MultiChoice South Africa will launch a streaming-only version of DStv, its CEO, Calvo Mawela, said in a podcast interview with TechCentral on Monday. Though the streaming product is unlikely to debut in 2018
eMedia Investments, the company that produces the 24-hour news channel eNCA for MultiChoice’s DStv, has announced it will launch a second news channel, called OpenNews, which will be available exclusively