DStv's subscriber decline in detail

[Hanno Labuschagne]

DStv's subscriber decline in detail

MultiChoice is struggling to maintain its DStv subscriber base, with years of price hikes making the pay-TV service expensive and unaffordable for many South African residents.

The company's annual results for the 2023/24 financial year revealed that it lost roughly 1.6 million DStv subscribers across all regions in which it operates.

 

[Insidus]

We're just going through a similar affect as other countries even if DStv minimized costs they'd still lose consumers

 

[BillyG]

Moved to a rented property without a DStv dish for my decoders. Streaming is only allowed on 1 TV and then on small mobile devices. I cannot stream on 2 TV's at the same time, so they can keep it and kiss my +-R1000/m goodbye too. Disney and/or Amazon here I come!

 

[ThinkCentre]

DSTV needs to learn how to do more with less. This is paramount for any company today to survive. Their excuses for increasing their subscriptions have caught up with them!

 

[RedViking]

I must say, I am enjoying the sport since borrowing FIL's streaming account he didn't know he has.

I just find it dumb that you can't pause or have the option to watch it later. Like the cricket that is on at 2 this morning.

No ways I will pay a R1000 just for this.

 

[joostonteldoos]

Well we asked to pay only for the channels that we want to watch, they didn’t listen. Forcing people to sign up for their premium R1000 package to watch 1 sporting channel (in my case Rugby which is not even played all year round) is daylight robbery. They must enjoy their greedy sports monopoly while it lasts, the day will come when we have more options and that will then be the end of them. Canal+ is waisting their money just like mr Musk did with Twitter.

 

[cda]

If they hadn't been run by complete idiots they would have been decreasing prices to retain customers since their OPEX is fixed against the subscriber base earning less per subscription would be substantially offset by increased subscriptions. But nooo the old white men believed the internet was a fad or something

 

[Speedster]

If they hadn't been run by complete idiots they would have been decreasing prices to retain customers since their OPEX is fixed against the subscriber base earning less per subscription would be substantially offset by increased subscriptions. But nooo the old white men believed the internet was a fad or something

You might want to Google the Multichoice board at some stage

 

[gotaway]

If they hadn't been run by complete idiots they would have been decreasing prices to retain customers since their OPEX is fixed against the subscriber base earning less per subscription would be substantially offset by increased subscriptions. But nooo the old white men believed the internet was a fad or something

You might want to Google the Multichoice board at some stage

lets help him, this from https://www.multichoice.com/our-people/overview :
Oh, and @cda to make it some fun play a round of "spot the duplicates due to scrolling implementation"

Board:




Execs:

 

[The_MAC]

Cutting the cord on a satellite service..

 

[gotaway]

from kissing, to waving, to cutting (umbilical) cords.
what next?

 

[Mirai]

lets help him, this from https://www.multichoice.com/our-people/overview :
Oh, and @cda to make it some fun play a round of "spot the duplicates due to scrolling implementation"

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Execs:
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The people responsible for DSTV's success. Make sure to pay your sub on time. I wonder which of these good people decided to enrol people in the Disney sub without consent? Were they punished for this theft? LOL

 

[Bewlen]

from kissing, to waving, to cutting (umbilical) cords.
what next?

 

[Barneyvanr]

Expensive for the utter rubbish channels they have. Sport for R1000. No way.

 

[Lupus]

I must say, I am enjoying the sport since borrowing FIL's streaming account he didn't know he has.

I just find it dumb that you can't pause or have the option to watch it later. Like the cricket that is on at 2 this morning.

No ways I will pay a R1000 just for this.

Isn't it on catchup?

 

[Lupus]

You might want to Google the Multichoice board at some stage

Sssssh some still believe Naspers is involved

 

[RedViking]

Isn't it on catchup?

There no catchup on the stream app from what I can see. There is just a 10 min. highligts thing.

 

[Polymathic]

If they hadn't been run by complete idiots they would have been decreasing prices to retain customers since their OPEX is fixed against the subscriber base earning less per subscription would be substantially offset by increased subscriptions. But nooo the old white men believed the internet was a fad or something

Then you have them still overpaying for Sporting events to maintain the exclusive rights even though they couldn't really afford it.

They essential kept operating like a monopoly and kept their old strategy of crying for government assistance instead actually improving their products and pricing.

 

[Lupus]

There no catchup on the stream app from what I can see. There is just a 10 min. highligts thing.

Technically the whole thing is catch up by the looks of it, unless you go to live TV. But yeah just saw Sport is not great

 

[UB40]