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MTN Group’s former video-on-demand provider, Discover Digital, is starting a new South African online TV service with lender Investec, just days after its partnership with Africa’s biggest wireless operator was cancelled. The closely

MTN South Africa has pulled the plug on VU, its video-on-demand platform, just days before its partner that provides the service, Discover Digital, launches a new VOD offering. The service will be terminated on 3 May, MTN said. As a “gesture of goodwill

ShowMax, Naspers’s video-on-demand streaming service, has turned one and has refreshed its logo, which now also includes colour. ShowMax says the logo change from the framed black and white logo used in

MTN’s video-on-demand strategy in the South African market has not worked as expected and will now be radically overhauled. That’s the word from MTN South Africa CEO Mteto Nyati, who was speaking

The crowded South African video-on-demand market is getting even more crowded. A new entrant, InterneTV – the brainchild of broadcasting equipment supply industry veteran John

South Africa’s highly competitive subscription video-on-demand (VOD) landscape has claimed its first victim. Less than a month after Netflix announced it was expanding to markets across the world, including South Africa, Times Media Group has shuttered Vidi

Naspers-owned video-on-demand platform ShowMax has reached a deal with Internet service provider MWeb in terms of which users will get three months of “free” ADSL along with three months of complimentary access to ShowMax. The offer is

Television in South Africa turns 40 years old on Tuesday. The SABC TV service marks its 40th anniversary since the very first nationwide broadcast on 5 January 1976 when Dorianne Berry and Heinrich Marnitz welcomed viewers to the “opening night” of TV in the country