MultiChoice planning to help TopTV

[jes]

MultiChoice planning to help TopTV

DStv operator, MultiChoice is believed to be behind a consortium bidding for rival pay-television operator TopTV.

 

[Sinbad]

Competition commission anyone?

 

[Skerminkel]

The hot air is thick in this one

 

[LCBXX]

Hmm..if successful, it would save MC from having to deal with moral objectionists when introducing porn

 

[Nerfherder]

Oh you got porn ?


Let me help you with that.... I was too much of a coward to stand up and do it myself.

 

[Wyzak]

Planning to help themselves to a nice monopoly again.

 

[jikajoe1]

hmmm . . . there is always something about uninvited help

 

[LazyLion]

Agh, no please... just keep your filthy hands off.

 

[McCrazieGoalz]

The only real chance of the average SA public having a choice other than DSTv lies in more Free To Air channels through digital broadcasting. But, that also looks dead. When are we going to move to digital signal. When are the decoders going to be available?

Back to the real issue with this article. Multichoice helping TopTV just smells fishy no matter what the details are.

There are no details of how this help will be provided. My guess is that it will be in a hegemonic way that simply serves Multichoices interest, which is to maintain its monopoly while TopTV barely survives for the next 20 years.

If Multichoice wants to provide real help to TopTV, it should offer TopTV broadcast rights for premuim sports at discounted prices, making it more affordable for the average South African to watch live premium sports.

Although this happened in the UK via state arm-twisting of BSkyB so that Virgin and other satellite TV providers can also broadcast sports, we know this aint gonna happen in SA.

ICASA where are you in this and ODM, you said you don't need sport to be successful, now look where you are.

DSTv's Compact bouquet is the largest bouquet in terms of subscription numbers because of one thing.

Think about it.

No sport, no life TopTV.

 

[Axis]

Competition commission anyone?

Hehe. My thoughts exactly. All we need is for Multichoice to own Top TV

 

[daveza]

This story just sounds too stinky to be true.

 

[Bernie]

So getting a license to broadcast porn to save the company actually worked

 

[Bona Botse]

I just read this as Monochoice really, really NOT wanting to compete with the Chinese.

 

[Sinbad]

I just read this as Monochoice really, really NOT wanting to compete with anyone.

FTFY

 

[JustAsk]

I just read this as Monochoice really, really NOT wanting to compete with the Chinese.

That's exactly what it is. All the fsckers want to do is preventing the Chinese from buying a stake. It also gives you an idea to how much lenghts they'll go to protect their overpriced product. All that bid was, was "legal" corruption.

 

[Marcan]

Wow, a Mzansi soapie could not have come up with a better story than this bid of Dynamic TV consortium, backed by those Naspers/Dstv guys. So obvious, that they will even get away with. How many backhanders will move around ?? And this fake argument, fallacy that skills will leave SA as the Chinese Startimes would take over Top TV. We will never have a proper competitor for Dstv as their mother company is involved.