The high court in Pretoria has dealt a huge blow to free-to-air broadcaster e.tv, stating amendments to South Africa’s broadcasting digital migration policy, gazetted in March, will remain in force. “The court has affirmed
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The high court in Pretoria on Thursday ruled against broadcaster e.tv in its challenge of government’s decision not to encrypt set-top boxes for digital broadcasts. Judge WRC Prinsloo dismissed the case and ordered that
Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn wants cabinet to “review and reverse” the broadcasting digital migration policy it adopted in March to “break the legal logjam that is crippling South Africa’s migration to digital broadcasting”. Her remarks
More than a decade after South Africa started preparing to switch off analogue terrestrial television, the deadline government agreed to with other nations to end the broadcasts has not been met. This Wednesday, 17 June, marks the date that
Naspers chairman Koos Bekker said months before Yunus Carrim was fired as communications minister that he would not be reappointed to the job. This startling allegation is contained in a report by the Mail & Guardian on Friday, in which
New pay-television licensee Siyaya TV has rubbished claims by SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng that the public broadcaster has secured the rights to broadcast Bafana Bafana soccer
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
Just as South Africa’s broadcasting digital migration project looked to be making solid progress for the first time in years, one of the protagonists in the long-running war over the encryption of TV signals is unleashing its lawyers, potentially setting the process back by
South Africa “won’t be held to ransom” by e.tv. That was the warning on Friday by communications minister Faith Muthambi, who was speaking to TechCentral on the sidelines of a Southern African Digital Broadcasting Association event in Johannesburg where she
South Africa’s digital migration project could be set for further delays after e.tv revealed on Tuesday that it has asked the high court to review “aspects” of government’s final broadcasting digital migration policy released last month by communications minister Faith Muthambi