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<\/a><\/p>\nNaspers has released its\u00a0financial results for the year to 31 March 2017, which show that revenues increased\u00a019% year-on-year.<\/p>\n
Part of Naspers’ report covers the company’s video entertainment operations, which includes the performance of MultiChoice and its DStv service.<\/p>\n
Naspers’ “Video Entertainment” subscriber base grew to 11.9 million households, with 1.5 million subscribers added during the period.<\/p>\n
Of these, 626,000 were new direct-to-home customers in South Africa.<\/p>\n
The results stated that the growth was mainly from mid and lower-end bouquets, with the “change in subscriber mix negatively impacting revenue uplift”.<\/p>\n
The report further noted that the financial results were satisfactory, despite tough conditions in the South African economy.<\/p>\n
Naspers stated that the weak rand also resulted in cost inflation and margin pressure.<\/p>\n
The slide below from the Naspers results report details the growth in video entertainment subscriber numbers, which showed that the South African direct-to-home base grew to 6.36 million.<\/p>\n
There was also growth in the number of subscribers in sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n
Subscriber mix figures pointed to a decline in the number of viewers on Premium packages, with the number of subscribers and the percentage of total subscribers on lower-end packages both increasing.<\/p>\n
Naspers has released its\u00a0financial results for the year to 31 March 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":131786,"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":[35,475,1643],"class_list":["post-216796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-headline","tag-multichoice","tag-naspers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216796"}],"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=216796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216800,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216796\/revisions\/216800"}],"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=216796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\nNow read:\u00a0DStv Now for iOS adds support for Chromecast<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"