Communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has promised to consult with the broadcasting industry about a new analogue switch-off date.
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After successfully halting analogue switch-off on 30 June, e.tv has said it knows it needs to vacate the analogue spectrum bands as soon as possible.
The constitutional court gave communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni a bloody nose on Tuesday after it sided with e.tv in a high-stakes legal battle.
Communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has blamed the recent floods in KwaZulu-Natal and parts of the Eastern Cape for a delay in the roll-out of digital set-top boxes.
MultiChoice Group has dropped four e.tv channels from DStv after the Competition Tribunal ruled against e.tv parent eMedia in a dispute with the pay-television operator.
Openview, the free-to-air satellite television platform in the eMedia Holdings stable, has turned a profit for the first time on the back of a surge in advertising revenue.
Shares in eMedia Holdings leapt higher on Wednesday after it said it expected full-year headline earnings per share to jump by as much as 301%.
From electricity to spectrum to water pipes, managers or ministers appointed to fix government services keep running into walls created by decades of neglect.
E.tv has filed papers with the constitutional court on an urgent basis seeking an appeal of the high court judgment that analogue terrestrial television broadcasts in South Africa be switched off on 30 June.
Cabinet has announced that South Africa will not migrate from analogue to digital terrestrial television until 2037 – at the earliest.