Openview lied about 3.2 million people missing out on World Cups

Meh....pish-posh.

Fact is SABC2 doesn't have great programming, so that 60k normal viewership number is irrelevant, what matters is if 2.3m people have access to watch that channel when it does have desirable content like the RWC.

Furthermore, no amount of smarmy bs from MC will save them from the bad taste they have left in South Africans palates. They are the worse kind of exploiters. Finis en klâr
 
In any case you will always have over- and under-reporting. It's become standard practice in order to counter the claims of the other side. While the figure is probably overblown you have to take the number of people without realistic access to the channel in any other form, this also excludes places like pubs, and not the number of people that will actually watch. On MC's side it seems they only took the regular viewership numbers as households. This also goes up for special events like RWC. It's also not in their favour that the numbers are from before the SABC switched off most of its analogue broadcasts and we know the government failed to provide STBs.

The real figure is probably somewhere smack in the middle.
 
Stupid idea, why doesn’t OpenView start a media sales company to target advertisers for sporting events for 3rd party channels since it’s now obvious that the SABC is supplying OVHD with a separate feed?

Hollywood Bets, SAB & Pineapple collectively paid ZAR 58 million to the SABC to enable it to show games on SABC channels via Analogue, DTT, Freevision (Sentech), DStv & SABC+ (OTT platform).
I’m sure that adding OVHD to the sub-licensing cost won’t be that much.

Also, ultimately I think that OVHD should turn into a public-private company with the SABC & Sentech buying or be given a small stake to help legitimise it as a unified FTA platform. If they going after multichoice for they need to do so as a collective. Government needs to also push for Anti-siphoning laws for the public’s greater interest.
 
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