MultiChoice South Africa CEO Calvo Mawela has hit out at the SABC’s call for it to pay to carry its public service channels on DStv, saying it will not do so if so-called “must-carry” regulations are amended or scrapped
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In a submission to communications regulator Icasa on the pay-television market in South Africa, e.tv has warned that free-to-air broadcasting is at serious risk unless regulations are introduced to protect and grow the
Cell C has argued that Netflix and other so-called “over-the-top” services, including its own Black platform, do not pose a significant threat to MultiChoice in the near term. MultiChoice has argued that Netflix and
Must-carry regulations, which require DStv parent MultiChoice and other satellite pay-television providers to carry the SABC’s three free-to-air channels, are unfair and commercial broadcasters are exploiting
On TalkCentral this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about the suspension of Usaasa CEO Lumko Mtimde. Also on the podcast, they talk about why Facebook might soon have a paid tier, communications
With communications regulator Icasa set to hold public hearings into the subscription television market in South Africa, DStv parent MultiChoice has said a lack of new competition in the direct-to-home satellite
South African consumers are increasingly shunning linear television broadcasting in favour of subscription video-on-demand alternatives such as Netflix and Showmax, according to new research. Data from GfK’s annual
Mzwanele Manyi, the former government spin doctor who bought 24-hour news channel ANN7 from the Guptas, is seeking to break conclusively with the channel’s association with the controversial family
Much dust has been kicked up over MultiChoice’s channel agreements with the SABC and the Guptas’ ANN7 television news channel. The claim is that these parties colluded in a form of state capture and corruption to their mutual