{"id":182000,"date":"2016-10-08T15:07:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T13:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=182000"},"modified":"2016-10-08T15:09:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T13:09:44","slug":"dstv-channel-downtime-massive-cable-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/182000-dstv-channel-downtime-massive-cable-cut.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv channel downtime &#8211; massive cable cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice&#8217;s DStv channels suffered major downtime on Friday evening due to a fibre cable cut near its Randburg offices.<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel24.co.za\/TV\/News\/dstv-channels-are-back-on-air-after-fibre-optics-cable-cut-20161008\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Channel24<\/strong><\/a> that\u00a0M-Net, Mzansi Magic, and SuperSport channels were affected by the cable cut, which was caused by construction work.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that all channels were restored by Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>DStv viewers described the downtime as a &#8220;nightmare&#8221;, with\u00a0M-Net Movies Premiere and VUZU among the channels going offline.<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice apologised to its subscribers and thanked them for their patience.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on DStv<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/181558-why-the-new-dstv-explora-has-a-smaller-hard-drive.html\">Why the new DStv Explora has a smaller hard drive<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/181378-netflix-rival-owned-by-australian-version-of-dstv-is-dead.html\">Netflix rival owned by Australian version of DStv is dead<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice&#8217;s DStv channels suffered major downtime on Friday evening due to a fibre cable cut near its Randburg offices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":131786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[39240,85,35],"class_list":["post-182000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-cable-cut","tag-dstv","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182000"}],"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=182000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182002,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182000\/revisions\/182002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}