{"id":108130,"date":"2014-08-14T12:43:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T10:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=108130"},"modified":"2014-08-14T12:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T10:47:00","slug":"the-advertisement-dstv-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/108130-the-advertisement-dstv-rejected.html","title":{"rendered":"The advertisement DStv rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trade union Solidarity has released an online video containing the advertisement which was not allowed to be aired on DStv\u2019s Kyknet.<\/p>\n<p>According to Solidarity CEO Dirk Hermann, the union has no idea why DStv was not willing to broadcast the advertisement.<\/p>\n<p>He added that this was the second time this year a Solidarity advert was rejected, which they feel amounts to \u201cunwarranted censorship\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The trade is now using YouTube in combination with a social media campaign to promote the video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf DStv refuses to air our advertisement, we will find other ways to distribute it to the public,\u201d said Johan Kruger, deputy general secretary of Solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>Hermann said that members of the public can now form their own opinion on whether the advert should have been rejected by DStv.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3HMHMPQPlxE\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #263034;\">DStv explains<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #263034;\">DStv Media Sales told MyBroadband their decision definitely did not constitute censorship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #263034;\">\u201cDStv Media Sales has an absolute discretion to accept or reject any advert,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #263034;\">DStv Media Sales said Solidarity was well aware this absolute discretion was confirmed by the High Court earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #263034;\">\u201cIn March, the court ruled against Solidarity in a matter involving the placing of an advert on Kyknet and ordered them to pay costs,\u201d DStv Media Sales said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on DStv and Solidarity<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"DStv censoring our advertisement: union\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/107912-dstv-censoring-our-advertisement-union.html\"><strong>DStv censoring our advertisement: union<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trade union Solidarity has released the advertisement which was not allowed to be aired on DStv\u2019s Kyknet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":73576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,85,143],"class_list":["post-108130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-dstv","tag-solidarity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108130"}],"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=108130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108132,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108130\/revisions\/108132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}