{"id":114673,"date":"2014-11-25T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=114673"},"modified":"2014-11-25T10:04:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T08:04:08","slug":"dstv-remains-a-big-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/114673-dstv-remains-a-big-hit.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv remains a big hit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Naspers has released its results for the six months ending 30 September 2014, which showed strong DStv subscriber growth. DStv covers 50 countries on the African continent and provides services to over 8.4 million homes.<\/p>\n

Naspers\u2019 pay-television showed subscriber growth of 342,000 households, which drove revenues up 18% to R20.2 billion. Trading profit increased 11% to R5 billion.<\/p>\n

The margin on Naspers\u2019 pay-TV service continues to decline \u2013 down from 25% to 23% over the last twelve months.<\/p>\n

The personal video recorder (PVR) base expanded to 1.2 million subscribers and DStv customers are now renting some 600,000 movies per month through BoxOffice.<\/p>\n

The following chart provides an overview of Naspers\u2019 pay-TV subscriber numbers.<\/p>\n

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DStv numbers<\/p><\/div>\n

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DStv Explora Internet services launched<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

DStv Now mobile application with live streaming unveiled<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

DStv prices: decreases and increases<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DStv has continued its strong growth in South Africa and the rest of Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":73576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[85,35,1643,423,1647],"class_list":["post-114673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-headline","tag-naspers","tag-pay-tv","tag-pay-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114673"}],"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=114673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114679,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114673\/revisions\/114679"}],"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=114673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}