New Pay TV licences granted in SA

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has provisionally granted subscription TV broadcasting licences to the five new applicants that applied for them in 2012, a spokesperson has told MyBroadband.

Close-T Broadcast Network Holdings, Kagiso TV, Mindset Media Enterprises, Mobile TV, and Siyaya TV all applied for pay TV licences and participated in Icasa’s public hearings in 2013.

When asked about the provisional licence granted, CloseTV’s Mia Groenewald said that there are certain conditions which need to be fulfilled before Icasa will issue the licence.

“They have specified a time frame in which the conditions need to be fulfilled and thereafter it will be issued,” Groenewald said.

When Kagiso TV and Mobile TV were asked yesterday (Thursday, 24 April 2014) whether they had received a notice from Icasa, they said that they had not yet received the letter informing them that their licences had been granted.

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