{"id":227919,"date":"2017-09-08T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=227919"},"modified":"2017-09-08T15:00:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T13:00:53","slug":"openview-hds-big-push-to-1000000-activations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/227919-openview-hds-big-push-to-1000000-activations.html","title":{"rendered":"OpenView HD&#8217;s big push to 1,000,000 activations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenView HD is currently running a promotion, giving away R5,000 each day until it reaches 1,000,000 homes.<\/p>\n<p>The subscription-free satellite TV service said it is currently sitting at just over 977,000 set-top box activations.<\/p>\n<p>In May, OpenView said it had passed 825,000 activations &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/211270-huge-growth-for-openview-hd-in-south-africa.html\"><strong>a growth of 112%<\/strong><\/a> on the number of activations from the previous year.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Reaching 1 million<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/88763-openview-hd-goes-on-sale.html\"><strong>OpenView HD launched in October 2013<\/strong><\/a>, offering a \u201cfree forever\u201d satellite TV service where you only pay the once-off cost of a decoder.<\/p>\n<p>At launch, its cheapest decoders had a recommended retail price of R999. Including the dish and installation, the once-off cost came to between R1,499 and R1,699.<\/p>\n<p>New decoders are now priced from R399.<\/p>\n<p>A timeline of OpenView HD\u2019s subscriber growth is detailed below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>October 2013 &#8211; <strong>Launch<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>July 2014 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/106801-openview-hd-viewer-numbers-revealed.html\"><strong>37,606<\/strong><\/a> <strong>households<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>August 2015 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/136498-openview-hd-reaches-milestone.html\"><strong>200,000<\/strong><\/a> <strong>activations<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>February 2016 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/153752-openview-hd-user-numbers-revealed.html\"><strong>350,000<\/strong><\/a> <strong>activations<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>May 2016 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/166218-openview-hd-subscriber-numbers-skyrocket.html\"><strong>388,812<\/strong><\/a> <strong>activations<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>May 2017 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/211270-huge-growth-for-openview-hd-in-south-africa.html\"><strong>825,000<\/strong><\/a> <strong>activations<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To enter OpenView HD\u2019s million activation competition, you need to buy a new decoder and text the STB number on the back to 33103.<\/p>\n<p>This makes you eligible for the R5,000 daily prize. If you are the millionth customer, you can win a new car.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openviewhd.co.za\/content\/openview-hd-1000-000-celebration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">terms and conditions<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0of the competition are on the OpenView website, and winners are announced on its <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/openviewHD\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook page<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>OpenView HD said it plans to expand its channel offering in the future, having just added BBC World News to the platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cViewers can look forward to a wider variety of entertainment for the whole family &#8211; with a mix of international and local content, our 24-hour movie channels, the best animated children\u2019s content, and more.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/211066-why-e-tv-launched-four-channels-on-dstv-that-were-exclusive-to-openview-hd.html\">Why e.tv launched four channels on DStv that were exclusive to OpenView HD<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenView HD is currently running a promotion, giving away R5,000 each day until it reaches 1,000,000 homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":228027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[13919,2092,35,20531,20533],"class_list":["post-227919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-bbc-world-news","tag-e-tv","tag-headline","tag-openview-hd","tag-platco-digital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227919"}],"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=227919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228025,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227919\/revisions\/228025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}