MultiChoice has announced it will stop broadcasting ANN7 on DStv when its contract ends on 20 August 2018.<\/p>\n
MultiChoice made the announcement today at a press conference in Johannesburg, which was held to deal with controversies surrounding the ANN7 channel.<\/p>\n
While MultiChoice stated its board found that the company had made some mistakes, there was no evidence of corruption or illegal activity in terms of the ANN7 deal.<\/p>\n
MultiChoice said that instead of renewing ANN7’s contract later this year, it will\u00a0host a new black-owned news channel.<\/p>\n
The news channel must be owned, managed, and run by a black South African company – free from any political or other interference, said MultiChoice.<\/p>\n
The decision comes after ICASA confirmed it will conduct an investigation<\/strong><\/a> into MultiChoice.<\/p>\n This followed a complaint by the DA in November 2017 requesting ICASA to conduct an inquiry into payments made by MultiChoice to ANN7 and the SABC.<\/p>\n MultiChoice has announced it will stop broadcasting ANN7 on DStv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":120242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[85,35],"class_list":["post-247065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247065"}],"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=247065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247067,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247065\/revisions\/247067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Facebook gets aggressive in fight to retain users<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"