The company seeks to become the continent’s video entertainment channel by offering online streaming services and pay-tv
The new company will be named MultiChoice Group and will include MultiChoice South Africa Holdings and its subsidiaries
In late January MultiChoice announced the news channel’s contract will not be renewed when it lapses in August 2018
Earlier this year MultiChoice had a briefing following the probe, indicating that no irregular payments were made to ANN7
Employees at the channel have been left stranded after it was removed from the DStv bouquet but the Communication Workers Union says it is not the end
Your data is giving Big Tech control of everything and only a huge shift by the people can halt it
MultiChoice has to work out international content streaming rights, as well as the costing and pricing of the service.
The entertainment giant is disrupting the industry but its rivals are not giving up without a fight
A former editor at ANN7 has lifted the lid on how Gupta employees deceived MultiChoice into believing it was ready to launch on its DStv platform
Naspers-owned MultiChoice announced on January 31 that it was looking for a black-owned media company to replace ANN7’s slot.
‘When MultiChoice chief executive Calvo Mawela addressed the media this week, he was contrite. There had been “mistakes”, he said’
ANN7’s contract will come to an end in August, and MultiChoice has said that it will be replaced by a new black-owned news channel.
MultiChoice was equally clear about the consequences of its ‘mistake’ — when ANN7’s contract ends in August, it will be dropped from DStv
The EFF on Wednesday welcomed Naspers’ MultiChoice’s decision to rid itself of Gupta-linked ANN7
Last year MultiChoice launched an investigation into payments made to ANN7 that it paid the controversial channel R25-million upfront.
On Wednesday, DStv announced that it will not renew its contract with TV station ANN7 when it expires in August
“There is zero accountability and no consequences for malfeasance in South Africa”
‘The entire, vast, expensive edifice of surveillance and control failed’
The pay-TV service admits it lobbied e.tv to drop its encryption agenda but denies resorting to bribery
An ex-minister claims Koos Bekker is passing the buck as he ‘pushed aggressively’ to get encryption dropped
MultiChoice denies claims of a corrupt relationship between itself and former minister of communications Faith Muthambi.
‘Bond notes were the government’s short-term answer to its long-term economic problems but now this is proving to be an expensive mistake’
Chairperson of the SABC interim board Khanyisile Kweyama made the announcement while updating the portfolio committee on communications on Tuesday
Naspers’s market valuation has grown by 440% in the past five years as a result of its stake in Chinese tech company Tencent.
There is widespread evidence of the pay-TV operator clearly trying to dictate state policy.
Broadcaster Multichoice has received two fines for running inappropriate promos on DSTV.
The small electronics industry body is accusing two of its heads of being ’empowerment raiders’.
Media houses will be allowed full audio broadcasts of the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius but only partial television broadcasts will be permitted.
A high court has ruled that Oscar Pistorius’s trial for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, can be recorded with restrictions.
A court is set to rule on an application by news channel eNCA, MultiChoice and Eyewitness News to film the trial of track star Oscar Pistorius.
The NPA says spending money on opposing a court application for live broadcasts of Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial is futile.
News channels eNCA, MultiChoice and EWN are set to ask a court for permission to broadcast Oscar Pistorius’s trial for the death of Reeva Steenkamp.