Why DStv cannot offer individual channels

[Daniel Puchert]

DStv pay-per-channel challenge

MultiChoice cannot allow subscribers to choose the DStv channels they want and pay only for them due to how global channel distributors sell their content to broadcasters.

For many years, DStv customers have complained about paying for the channels they never watch.

 

[epah]

Can I block all DSTV articles?

 

[PaulGherkin]

Always have to have an excuse, and a lame one at that.

They can do it. They simply won't!

 

[PaulGherkin]

Can I block all DSTV articles?

We need a browser plugin, but as we know, those things are hit-and-miss at best

 

[BBSA]

If that's the case, they'll probably lose even more customers and end up like the dodo bird.

 

[STORMERSFAN]

Apparently pubs can select to only have the sports package

 

[daveza]

The potato channels.

 

[FiestaST]

Analogy 'R Us:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1836062718056432100

 

[Mirai]

DStv pay-per-channel challenge

MultiChoice cannot allow subscribers to choose the DStv channels they want and pay only for them due to how global channel distributors sell their content to broadcasters.

For many years, DStv customers have complained about paying for the channels they never.

So Hollywood blocks DSTV from selling sports only packages? These have to come with American movies?

 

[soulie]

They purchased all the rights to all the old crap ,because the new crap is too expensive for them ,now they sit with hundreds of old movies nobody wants to watch on repeat ,ie Law and Order ,no thanks ,canceled months ago ,that was a **** show on its own .

 

[KERU]

They seem to do it successfully in India.

 

[Shadowchaser1]

The same argument as in 2002/3. Really? 22 years later & no progress has been made? Unreal. Don't DSTV get their sport feed from Sky Sports? Again just asking.

 

[WollieVerstege]

And just like a buffet at a hotel, I will give them a wiiidddeee berth

 

[G.A.S]

DStv pay-per-channel challenge

MultiChoice cannot allow subscribers to choose the DStv channels they want and pay only for them due to how global channel distributors sell their content to broadcasters.

For many years, DStv customers have complained about paying for the channels they never.

The real reason: It's not their business model. It worked in their favor in the 90s, it worked in their favor in the early 2000s. So why change now? /s

 

[ThinkCentre]

DSTV is there to make money and not necessarily to deliver a service!

 

[Dimpie (JIGSAW)]

aag kak man ... If that's the case then it shouldn't be a problem to add the sport to ALL the other bundles.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Well, their buffet is getting a bit stale, a refresh, and change is long overdue.

 

[Heisenborg]

Yeah keep telling yourselves that monochoice

 

[somnambulist]

I call b.s. coz every DTH operator in India allows you to pick channels à la carte…

R840.00 p/m on Airtel also gets you gigabit fiber and their equivalent of DStv Premium…

 

[longboy]

Why DStv cannot offer individual channels?​

A: Greed.