{"id":550664,"date":"2006-10-27T18:10:55","date_gmt":"2006-10-27T18:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550664-naspers-after-m-net-stakes.html"},"modified":"2006-10-27T18:10:55","modified_gmt":"2006-10-27T18:10:55","slug":"naspers-after-m-net-stakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550664-naspers-after-m-net-stakes.html","title":{"rendered":"Naspers after M-Net stakes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The prospective buyer was not named but there has been speculation in the marketplace for some time that media giant Naspers (NPN) &#8211; majority owner of M-Net and SuperSport &#8211; might be interested in purchasing Johncom&#8217;s 38.56% stake in the lucrative pay-television business. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The news saw Johncom&#8217;s share price soar 11.11% or R7.50 to a record high of R75 per share. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Naspers&#8217; share price has also been on the rise in recent weeks. At 13:55, Naspers&#8217; shares were up 1.56% or R2 at R130 per share. <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shares in media and entertainment group Johnnic Communications (Johncom, JCM) jumped more than 11% to an all-time high on the JSE on Friday after news that the group had received an offer to dispose of its stake in M-Net and SuperSport which it was reviewing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550664"}],"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=550664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}