{"id":205410,"date":"2017-04-03T09:03:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T07:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=205410"},"modified":"2017-04-03T09:07:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T07:07:09","slug":"apple-looking-at-premium-pay-tv-bundle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/205410-apple-looking-at-premium-pay-tv-bundle.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple looking at premium pay TV bundle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s latest plan for the pay-TV market is to sell\u00a0a premium TV bundle, according to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recode.net\/2017\/4\/2\/15155816\/apple-hbo-showtime-starz\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Recode<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that the\u00a0TV bundle will combine\u00a0HBO, Showtime, and Starz.<\/p>\n<p>If the bundle is approved by the companies involved, it could see Apple selling it as a stand-alone product available on iOS devices and Apple TV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Apple currently sells HBO for $15 a month, Showtime for $11 a month, and Starz for $9 a month,&#8221; stated Recode.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from the networks declined to comment on the reported premium bundle.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/204666-apple-releases-ios-10-3-all-the-new-features.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Apple releases iOS 10.3 \u2013 All the new features<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s latest plan for the pay-TV market is to sell a premium TV bundle, according to a report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":180268,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[605,423],"class_list":["post-205410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-apple","tag-pay-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205410"}],"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=205410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205412,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205410\/revisions\/205412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}