{"id":75677,"date":"2013-04-16T11:41:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T09:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=75677"},"modified":"2013-04-16T11:51:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T09:51:18","slug":"toptv-drops-two-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/75677-toptv-drops-two-channels.html","title":{"rendered":"TopTV drops two channels"},"content":{"rendered":"

TopTV<\/a> announced in a press statement today (16 April 2013) that it would discontinue two TopTV-packaged channels – Top Movies +24 and Top Junior – at midnight.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs TopTV continues to operate under the business rescue plan, announced in October 2012, it has become necessary to review the pay-TV operator\u2019s current channel line-up and make certain adjustments in the interim period,\u201d the beleaguered satellite pay-TV operator said.<\/p>\n

The operator said in its statement that it regrets the timing of this change, but explained that due to operational reasons it has become necessary to prepare for a proposed new channel structure.<\/p>\n

TopTV added that it is currently in negotiations with a prospective investor, saying that more details regarding this issue will be made public in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese talks are at an advanced stage and should they reach finality, a much-needed cash injection will be made into the operation that could result in a restructure of the business and the channels that are currently on offer,\u201d TopTV said.<\/p>\n

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TopTV prepaid numbers revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

TopTV versus DStv: an unfair battle?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two channels have been dropped from TopTV\u2019s line-up as it makes \u201ccertain adjustments\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":75679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[35,18576,87],"class_list":["post-75677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-headline","tag-on-digital-media-odm","tag-toptv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75677"}],"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=75677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75681,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75677\/revisions\/75681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}