MultiChoice and the SABC have signed a new commercial channel supply agreement which will allow the SABC News and SABC Encore channels to continue broadcasting on DStv.<\/p>\n
The signing of the agreement took place as the previous contract was set to expire and followed extensive discussions between the two companies.<\/p>\n
“SABC and MultiChoice believe that this agreement will give their relationship a new start,” said the SABC in a statement.<\/p>\n
SABC News offers 24-hour news coverage on channel 404, while SABC Encore airs classic shows from the SABC archives on channel 156.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe SABC welcomes the new agreement with MultiChoice which will bring certainty to our viewers and our staff,” said SABC CEO Madoda Mxakwe.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are pleased to be able to continue to carry these channels on DStv,” added MultiChoice South Africa CEO Calvo Mawela.<\/p>\n
“We have a long-standing relationship with SABC and are happy that we have reached a mutually-beneficial agreement.”<\/p>\n
The new channel agreement comes after the original agreement was signed in 2013 and faced opposition from multiple industry players.<\/p>\n
This included Media Monitoring Africa and Caxton Publishers\u00a0approaching the Competition Commission<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in 2015 over the deal.<\/p>\n Details also emerged that part of the agreement was a penalty clause that would kick in\u00a0if any of the SABC\u2019s channels were to be encrypted or protected with a conditional access system.<\/p>\n MultiChoice and the SABC have signed a new commercial channel supply agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":173656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[53123,475,361,30094,29720],"class_list":["post-272049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-broadcasting-agreement","tag-multichoice","tag-sabc","tag-sabc-encore","tag-sabc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272049"}],"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=272049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272359,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272049\/revisions\/272359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Massive government bailouts planned for SABC, Post Office, SAA<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"