{"id":100554,"date":"2014-04-11T20:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T18:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=100554"},"modified":"2014-04-11T20:02:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T18:02:26","slug":"dstv-sabc-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/100554-dstv-sabc-outage.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv SABC outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DStv subscribers took to Facebook, Twitter, and other online forums to voice their displeasure at not being able to watch SABC channels on Friday (11 April 2014) evening.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the outage affected subscribers all over South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>SABC 1, 2, 3, and the SABC News channels on DStv were all unavailable for the duration of the blackout.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after 19:00 on Friday subscribers began reporting that some of the channels were becoming available again.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the outage, a spokesperson for MultiChoice said that the feed from the SABC failed on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe rerouted the feed and all SABC channels have since been restored,\u201d MultiChoice said. \u201cApologies to our customers for this interruption in their viewing.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More broadcasting news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/100486-national-intelligence-agency-monitoring-sabc-reporters-phones.html\"><strong>National Intelligence Agency monitoring SABC reporter\u2019s phones<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/100320-multichoice-adds-satellite-capacity-for-digital-tv.html\"><strong>MultiChoice adds satellite capacity for digital TV<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/100256-competition-commission-called-in-on-multichoice-sabc-deal-icasa.html\"><strong>Competition Commission called in on MultiChoice-SABC deal: Icasa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/99402-were-not-scared-of-dstv-competition-multichoice.html\"><strong>We\u2019re not scared of DStv competition: MultiChoice<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/98344-dstv-explora-gets-all-game-of-thrones-episodes.html\"><strong>DStv Explora gets all Game of Thrones episodes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fuming DStv subscribers took to social media on Friday night when SABC channels became unavailable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":72532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[85,35,475,361],"class_list":["post-100554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-headline","tag-multichoice","tag-sabc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}