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Broadcasting regulator Icasa was ordered on Monday to review its decision to license three porn pay channels. Handing down judgment in the Western Cape high court, judge Lee Bozalek said the decision taken last year by Icasa to

Communications regulator Icasa was not deceived about the type of content that would be shown on StarSat’s adult pay channels, the Western Cape high court heard on Thursday. Steven Budlender, for On Digital Media (operating as TopTV and later StarSat), said their expert’s comments about channel content at the Icasa public hearing was clearly taken out of context.

It is not a crime to distribute pornography to adults on a secure channel, On Digital Media (ODM) argued in the Western Cape high court on Wednesday. Steven Budlender, for ODM, said the Sexual Offences Amendment Act and the Films and Publications Act criminalised the

The decision to launch three adult pay channels on local television is about money, nonprofit organisation Doctors for Life told the Western Cape high court on Tuesday. Reg Willis, for Doctors for Life, argued that the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) had granted the licences to struggling On Digital Media without understanding

Members of the public were sufficiently advised that On Digital Media (ODM) was applying for three adult channels, communications regulator Icasa told the Western Cape high court on Tuesday. Icasa had put notices in the Government Gazette informing that submissions could be made and that there would be a public hearing

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) did not follow procedure when deciding to allow three adult channels on local television, the Western Cape high court heard on Monday. Administrative justice had not been promoted and Icasa’s decision should thus be struck down, Murray Bridgman argued on behalf of

The Justice Alliance of South Africa on Tuesday said it had filed papers in the high court in Cape Town to challenge communications regulator Icasa’s decision to allow three adult channels to be broadcast on TV after 8pm. “Jasa believes that it is a step too far to introduce this to the family TV, which is usually in the only

On Digital Media (ODM), the owner of pay-television operator StarSat (formerly TopTV), is making a more aggressive play into sports, reserving an entire channel number range to sports channels and launching a new sports

On Digital Media (ODM), the company that owns pay-television brand StarSat (formerly TopTV), is a step closer to concluding its business rescue process after it won a high court battle last week against one of its minority shareholders. It has been in business rescue under the

Two weeks ago, Icasa provisionally awarded licences to five new subscription television broadcasters. It hopes the move will help crack open what has become a highly concentrated market that is now thoroughly dominated by one operator, MultiChoice. The communications regulator will be hoping that it is more successful in this