{"id":166218,"date":"2016-05-26T08:29:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=166218"},"modified":"2016-05-26T08:31:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:31:03","slug":"openview-hd-subscriber-numbers-skyrocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/166218-openview-hd-subscriber-numbers-skyrocket.html","title":{"rendered":"OpenView HD subscriber numbers skyrocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>eMedia Holdings &#8211; the parent of e.tv and OVHD &#8211; has released its financial results for the year ended 31 March 2016, revealing a sharp increase in OpenView HD subscriber numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The company said\u00a0OpenView HD\u00a0activations increased from 112,715 to 388,812 over the past year\u00a0financial year, an increase of 245%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Management believes that the\u00a0investment in quality channels and a multi-channel platform will stand\u00a0the group in good stead when the DTT roll-out ramps up,&#8221; said eMedia.<\/p>\n<p>OpenView HD&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/153752-openview-hd-user-numbers-revealed.html\"><strong>subscriber numbers<\/strong><\/a> were last reported at the 350,000 mark in February.<\/p>\n<p>OpenView HD charges no subscription fee and offers content in 720p, where possible, on channels such as eHD, eToonz+, eKasi+ , eMovies+, and Beatlab.tv.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More broadcasting news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/166200-watch-sabc-song-of-appreciation-for-90-south-african-music.html\">Watch: SABC song of appreciation for 90% South African music<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/164290-how-netflix-helped-showmax-in-south-africa.html\">How Netflix helped ShowMax in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eMedia Holdings has released its financial results for the year ended 31 March 2016, revealing a sharp increase in OpenView HD subscriber numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":136510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,20709,875],"class_list":["post-166218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-openview-hd-ovhd","tag-subscriber-numbers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166218"}],"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=166218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166220,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166218\/revisions\/166220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}