{"id":530681,"date":"2024-04-01T06:59:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T04:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=530681"},"modified":"2024-04-01T07:00:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T05:00:03","slug":"dstv-increases-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/530681-dstv-increases-prices.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv increases prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice\u2019s annual DStv price adjustments kick in today, 1 April 2024, with subscription fees increasing by between 3.1% and 7.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Only DStv\u2019s decoder-based products are getting a price hike. Its streaming-only package remains unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>The company announced the price hikes on 19 February. Stats SA announced in January that South Africa\u2019s average inflation for 2023 was 6%.<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice\u2019s lower-tier packages are getting larger increases than its more expensive products.<\/p>\n<p>DStv Access received the biggest increase at 7.8%, followed by DStv Compact Plus with a 6.9% hike.<\/p>\n<p>To compensate for the large increases, MultiChoice said it would offer greater value on these packages.<\/p>\n<p>Compact Plus subscribers will get a revamped set of channels that includes the best of Showmax\u2019s original content.<\/p>\n<p>The company announced that DStv Access would get a big upgrade to its sports offering in the form of SuperSport&#8217;s La Liga football channel.<\/p>\n<p>DStv Access\u2019 sports lineup now includes ESPN, La Liga, SuperSport Variety 4, and SuperSport Blitz.<\/p>\n<p>DStv\u2019s price adjustments for the 2024\/25 financial year are summarised in the table below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mybb_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" style=\"width: 100%;\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"4\">DStv Price Increases<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Packages<\/th>\n<th>2024<\/th>\n<th>2023<\/th>\n<th>Increase<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>DStv Premium<\/td>\n<td>R929<\/td>\n<td>R879<\/td>\n<td>5.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DStv Compact Plus<\/td>\n<td>R619<\/td>\n<td>R579<\/td>\n<td>6.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DStv Compact<\/td>\n<td>R469<\/td>\n<td>R449<\/td>\n<td>4.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DStv Family<\/td>\n<td>R329<\/td>\n<td>R319<\/td>\n<td>3.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DStv Access<\/td>\n<td>R139<\/td>\n<td>R129<\/td>\n<td>7.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DStv EasyView<\/td>\n<td>R29<\/td>\n<td>R29<\/td>\n<td>0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"4\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Add-ons<\/th>\n<th>2024<\/th>\n<th>2023<\/th>\n<th>Increase<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Access Fee<\/td>\n<td>R120<\/td>\n<td>R115<\/td>\n<td>4.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ADD Movies<\/td>\n<td>R79<\/td>\n<td>R79<\/td>\n<td>0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Box Office<\/td>\n<td>R40<\/td>\n<td>R40<\/td>\n<td>0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice&#8217;s annual DStv price adjustments kick in today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":441746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[85,35,475],"class_list":["post-530681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-headline","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530681"}],"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=530681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530683,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530681\/revisions\/530683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}