{"id":171847,"date":"2016-07-14T13:28:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T11:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=171847"},"modified":"2016-07-14T13:29:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T11:29:54","slug":"how-much-dstv-spent-on-showmax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/171847-how-much-dstv-spent-on-showmax.html","title":{"rendered":"How much DStv spent on ShowMax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ShowMax has paid MultiChoice over R20 million for unspecified goods and services, while MultiChoice has spent over R190 million on ShowMax.<\/p>\n<p>These figures are in the Naspers annual results for the year ended 31 March 2016, in the notes to MultiChoice\u2019s financial statements.<\/p>\n<p>The notes to the group annual financial statements contain details on significant transactions between companies in the Naspers group.<\/p>\n<p>Under \u201csales of goods and services\u201d, MultiChoice listed the following transactions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ShowMax International: <strong>R17,818,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>ShowMax BV: <strong>R2,937,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Under \u201cpurchases of goods and services\u201d, MultiChoice listed the following transactions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ShowMax International: <strong>R90,599,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>ShowMax BV: <strong>R103,066,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Naspers told MyBroadband that the numbers mentioned are not a reflection of capital expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese inter-company sales are for items such as content purchases, licence fees, and support costs,\u201d said Naspers.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on ShowMax and DStv<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/168967-how-showmax-decided-on-r99.html\"><strong>How ShowMax decided on R99<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/168277-dstv-vs-showmax.html\"><strong>DStv vs ShowMax<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/168235-dstv-explora-getting-showmax.html\"><strong>DStv Explora getting ShowMax<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/164290-how-netflix-helped-showmax-in-south-africa.html\"><strong>How Netflix helped ShowMax in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/164974-showmax-expands-to-36-african-countries.html\"><strong>ShowMax expands to 36 African countries<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice has spent millions of rand on ShowMax for the purchase of &#8220;goods and services&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":135902,"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":[85,35,475,32140],"class_list":["post-171847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-headline","tag-multichoice","tag-showmax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171847"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171937,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171847\/revisions\/171937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}