The launch of Etv’s planned video streaming service Openview Plus has been delayed.<\/p>\n
Parent company eMedia initially indicated it would start offering its own OTT streaming service during the announcement of its 2020 annual report<\/strong><\/a> in September.<\/p>\n CEO Khalik Serriff said that Openview was planning to provide additional platform choices for its viewers.<\/p>\n In preparation for this, eMedia content would be placed on the Openview website and on over-the-top (OTT) services including VIU.<\/p>\n He also stated that\u00a0the group would launch its own OTT offering called Openview Plus by October 2020.<\/p>\n “Work on this offering is happening in earnest as this report is published,” Seriff added.<\/p>\n The company did not provide specific details such as pricing or content which will be available on the service.<\/p>\n As alluded to in the annual report, the Openview website has added a selection of on-demand content<\/strong><\/a> which is free to stream.<\/p>\n This library consists of only a few international movies and local Etv shows, which are supported by ads.<\/p>\n VIU now also offers<\/strong><\/a> several seasons of various Etv series, including soapies like Scandal and Rhythm City.<\/p>\n However, MyBroadband was unable to find any mention of the Openview Plus service on either the Openview or Etv websites.<\/p>\n We asked the company to confirm whether the launch has been delayed, but it declined to provide further information.<\/p>\n “Please note that there is no media communication about Openview Plus at this stage,” eMedia stated.<\/p>\n “eMedia will communicate plans as they develop,” it added.<\/p>\n While pay-TV broadcaster DStv already offers a large chunk of its content via MultiChoice’s Showmax streaming service, free-to-air broadcasters have been slow to adapt to the streaming trend.<\/p>\n The SABC recently also revealed details<\/strong><\/a> on the plans for its iPlayer streaming service, which was first announced back in 2013.<\/p>\n It has also entered into an agreement<\/strong><\/a> with Telkom to offer a selection of its content on the recently-launched TelkomONE streaming service.<\/p>\n South African TV broadcasting analyst Thinus Ferreira previously told MyBroadband that anyone in broadcasting in South Africa must understand a streaming service, on-demand service, and digital service are the future.<\/p>\n “Switch to digital and start and grow your video streaming ecosystem or become irrelevant and die like the dinosaurs,” Ferreira warned.<\/p>\n “As a content provider \u2013 like a broadcaster \u2013 if you don\u2019t have or own a space in the very near future in whatever way, for instance an app, on a smartphone, you might as well not exist,” he added.<\/p>\n The launch of Etv’s planned video streaming service Openview Plus has been delayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":277085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1435,35,67699],"class_list":["post-376355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-etv","tag-headline","tag-openview-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376355"}],"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\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376817,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376355\/revisions\/376817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}No sign of service<\/h3>\n
SABC to launch own streaming service<\/h3>\n
Now read: Big DStv streaming changes \u2013 What you need to know<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"