The Competition Commission said on Monday that the controversial channel-supply agreement between MultiChoice and the SABC, signed in 2013, amounted to a merger.
Naspers has announced a management shake-up at MultiChoice, with the creation of a new MultiChoice Group business (formerly Naspers Video Entertainment), which will be headed by Calvo Mawela.
MultiChoice said on Monday that it is adding the Joox VIP streaming music service as a free value-add to DStv Premium, Compact and Compact Plus subscribers.
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Andre van der Veen, CEO of e.tv and Openview parent company eMedia Holdings on South Africa’s long-delayed digital terrestrial television migration project.
Communications minister Nomvula Mokonyane has welcomed the decision by the constitutional court, which grants the Competition Commission jurisdiction to investigate the deal signed between the SABC and MultiChoice.
Communications regulator Icasa has announced it will conduct a regulatory impact assessment on television must-carry regulations following strenuous objections by the SABC.
On TalkCentral this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg unpack Naspers’s decision to unbundle MultiChoice to shareholders and list it on the JSE. What does this mean for the future of the pay-television operator?
Discarded by its globe-trotting parent Naspers after more than three decades, African pay-television heavyweight MultiChoice Group is facing an uncertain future.
Naspers CEO Bob van Dijk, together with Naspers video entertainment CEO Imtiaz Patel and MultiChoice South Africa CEO Calvo Mawela, held a media call on Tuesday morning to discuss the plan to unbundle MultiChoice. Listen to it here.
Naspers has announced it plans to list its video entertainment business on the JSE while at the same time unbundling the unit to shareholders.