{"id":436122,"date":"2022-03-02T21:21:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T19:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=436122"},"modified":"2022-03-02T21:26:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T19:26:36","slug":"dstv-drops-rt-news-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/436122-dstv-drops-rt-news-channel.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv drops RT news channel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian state-controlled news channel RT is no longer available on DStv and TelkomONE.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs of today, 2 March 2021, Russia Today (Channel 407) shall not be carried on the DStv platform until further notice,\u201d MultiChoice said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cSanctions imposed on Russia by the European Union have led to the global distributor of the channel ceasing to provide the broadcast feed to all suppliers, including MultiChoice.\u201d<\/p>\n

RT is a Russian state-controlled international television network funded by the tax budget of the Russian government.<\/p>\n

It operates pay television or free-to-air channels directed to audiences outside of Russia and provides Internet content in English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, and Russian.<\/p>\n

The DStv RT blackout follows the European Union\u2019s (EU\u2019s) ban on RT, which became effective today.<\/p>\n

The EU\u2019s ban involves wide-ranging sanctions on the distribution of RT and its subsidiaries, including the broadcast, online channels, and the RT app.<\/p>\n

It announced the ban on Sunday, and countries signed off on it today after a formal proposal.<\/p>\n

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Earlier today, social media networks acted against Russian state media, including RT and Sputnik, in anticipation of the ban.<\/p>\n

YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok restricted state-controlled Russian media channels<\/strong><\/a>, aiming to curtail propaganda during Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Twitter also announced earlier this week that it would begin labelling all links<\/strong><\/a> from state-backed Russian outlets shared on its platform.<\/p>\n

The label identifies the links as \u201cRussia state-affiliated media\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Now read: DStv cuts four channels<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MultiChoice has abruptly cut RT, formerly known as Russia Today, from DStv. It is also unavailable on TelkomONE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":436128,"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":[35,475,76996,20577],"class_list":["post-436122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-headline","tag-multichoice","tag-rt","tag-russia-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436122"}],"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=436122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436130,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436122\/revisions\/436130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}