{"id":46292,"date":"2012-03-22T16:45:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T14:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=46292"},"modified":"2012-03-23T11:23:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T09:23:50","slug":"digital-tv-set-top-box-framework-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/46292-digital-tv-set-top-box-framework-approved.html","title":{"rendered":"Digital TV set-top-box framework approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cabinet has approved the Ownership Support Rollout Framework for television set-top-boxes (STBs) to poor households, government spokesman Jimmy Manyi announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Briefing the media following Cabinet&#8217;s fortnightly meeting on Tuesday, he said the executive had further approved full subsidisation of television-owning households in those areas of the Northern Cape affected by the <a title=\"The Square Kilometre Array (SKA)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/313503-The-Square-Kilometre-Array-(SKA)\">Square Kilometre Array (SKA)<\/a> project.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cabinet approved the&#8230; framework for&#8230; STBs to poor households that own television sets, and the full subsidisation of outdoor and indoor antennae and the installation costs associated with rolling out digital signals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It further approved the full subsidisation of television-owning households in the SKA project area,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for so-called digital migration is June 2015. After this date, old-style analogue television sets will require an STB to receive the digital broadcast signal.<\/p>\n<p>Manyi said Cabinet had also approved the STB manufacturing sector development strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The government would &#8220;further consult on measures to ensure localisation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This would spur job creation along the total digital migration value chain, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabinet has approved the Ownership Support Rollout Framework for television set-top-boxes (STBs) to poor households<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":30804,"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":[36,9303,1239],"class_list":["post-46292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-jimmy-manyi","tag-ska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46292"}],"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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46296,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46292\/revisions\/46296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}