{"id":35352,"date":"2011-10-06T14:02:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T12:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=35352"},"modified":"2011-10-06T14:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T12:08:00","slug":"user-selected-dstv-channel-packages-on-the-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/35352-user-selected-dstv-channel-packages-on-the-radar.html","title":{"rendered":"User selected DStv channel packages on the radar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Summary<\/span>: MultiChoice won\u2019t confirm whether they will offer specialised or customisable DStv channel bouquets in future, but they are monitoring global developments around the concept.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Global developments around custom or specialised channel bouquets is something <a title=\"MultiChoice\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/216214-MultiChoice\">MultiChoice<\/a> is watching for their DStv pay TV platform, reports <a title=\"teeveetee\" href=\"http:\/\/teeveetee.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/breaking-might-multichoice-ever-go-la.html\" target=\"_blank\">television journalist Thinus Ferreira<\/a>, quoting general manager for content at MultiChoice, <a title=\"Aletta Alberts\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/288167-Aletta-Alberts\">Aletta Alberts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Alberts said, &#8221;As we develop and as new technology, new back-end systems, and all of that come onto the market, it does become something that we keep on investigating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that they \u201cmight have some news for you on that\u201d in the near future, but that it doesn\u2019t mean they are going to do it \u2013 just that they haven\u2019t ruled it out as a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Alberts previously explained (in October 2010) that there are financial and technical <a title=\"Choosing your own DStv channels: MultiChoice explains\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/15710-choosing-your-own-dstv-channels-multichoice-explains.html\">challenges to allowing subscribers to choose their own channels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would greatly increase the monthly subscription fee even if fewer channels are selected. It conflicts with international supplier practices; it will also increase administration cost and make account administration expensive,\u201d Alberts said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice has not ruled out specialised or custom channel bouquets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":30948,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[2544,5384,85,35,475,423],"class_list":["post-35352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-aletta-alberts","tag-channel-bouquets","tag-dstv","tag-headline","tag-multichoice","tag-pay-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35352"}],"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=35352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35354,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35352\/revisions\/35354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}