The SABC is eyeing a pivot to satellite in an effort to keep its audience when analogue broadcasts are switched off.
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Communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has set a new planned analogue switch-off date for terrestrial television broadcasting.
E.tv parent eMedia Investments on Friday launched a blistering attack on Icasa and Sentech, over the state-owned broadcasting signal distributor’s monopoly.
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.
Communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni on Tuesday repeated a claim that South Africa has switched off analogue broadcasting in five of the nine provinces. But this isn’t strictly true.