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.
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Naspers has announced it plans to list its video entertainment business on the JSE while at the same time unbundling the unit to shareholders.
Naspers’s Video Entertainment unit, which has oversight of DStv parent MultiChoice, has created a new Connected Video unit and appointed a CEO to lead it.
Netflix does not pose a threat to job creation in South Africa’s sector and the “hype” surrounding the US online streaming service is “exaggerated”. That’s according to Surie Ramasary, CEO of Black, the new streaming
Vodacom Group has cut its dividend and reported earnings that missed estimates as Africa’s biggest wireless carrier by market value absorbed the acquisition of a stake in Kenya’s Safaricom and expanded its network
South African consumers are increasingly shunning linear television broadcasting in favour of subscription video-on-demand alternatives such as Netflix and Showmax, according to new research. Data from GfK’s annual
MultiChoice has cut the price of the Showmax video-on-demand service by half for DStv Compact Plus and Compact customers by half, the broadcaster said on Thursday. This comes after the company decided last year to
Telecommunications and ICT provider Vox has unveiled plans to launch specialist Internet video-on-demand content bouquets targeting niche communities. The service, which will be launched later this
John Kotsaftis, the founder and CEO of Showmax, has quit the video-on-demand streaming service provider owned by Naspers to join Fox Networks Group Asia, based in Singapore, where he will lead the development of subscription VOD
Showmax is now available on Sony’s popular PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 4 Pro gaming consoles through a dedicated app, the Naspers-owned video-streaming company said on Wednesday. The app is currently only available in