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MultiChoice is a South African company that operates DStv, a major satellite television service in Sub-Saharan Africa, and GOtv, a minor service operating in over nine countries of this area and Showmax service.
Digital Satellite Television, abbreviated DStv, is a Sub-Saharan African direct broadcast satellite service owned by MultiChoice and based in South Africa, with headquarters in Randburg. DStv provides audio , radio and television channels and services to subscribers across 50 countries, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] mostly in South Africa , Nigeria and Zimbabwe .
Showmax is an online subscription video on demand (SVOD) service that launched [2] in South Africa on 19 August 2015. [3] Its majority owner is MultiChoice, which owns 70% of the Showmax group, while American conglomerate NBCUniversal owns 30% in all territories except Nigeria, where NBCUniversal holds an indirect 23.7% stake in the local subsidiary. [4]
Guided by research that demonstrates that entertainment and fictional dramas can impact social change, [8] much of AREWA24's programming addresses community-relevant issues such as girl education, corruption, women's issues, health challenges, interreligious violence, youth employment, and conservation.
The channel airs on British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc (BSKYb) in the UK, Naspers Ltd. (NPN)'s DStv and Startimes in Nigeria, and Multi TV in Ghana. [ 6 ] Former CEO Nigel Parsons states "Without shying away from reporting the conflicts or the corruption, the famines or the wars, the mission of TVC News is also to tell the many positive stories ...
At the channel's launch event, the COO of SABC at the time used that event to rant about making pay-tv platforms like MultiChoice's DStv pay for SABC 1-3 and how the SABC is run by a 'blind person'. He also took the stage to call out those with their 'lack of knowledge' over the deal the public broadcaster has for the channel alongside SABC ...
Newsroom Afrika is a South African 24-hour digital satellite television news channel broadcast across Africa on DStv. [1] [2] [3] It is one of two channels on the platform that is 100% black-owned, and 50% female-owned. [4] The channel comes after MultiChoice ended their contract with the now defunct and controversial Afro Worldview. [5]
e.tv (commonly referred to on-air as e) is the first and only privately owned free-to-air television station in South Africa.It is the fifth terrestrial television channel in the country, following three channels that are operated by the state-owned South African Broadcasting Corporation (that is SABC 1, SABC 2 and SABC 3) and the privately owned subscription-funded M-Net.