{"id":81515,"date":"2013-07-03T09:22:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T07:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=81515"},"modified":"2013-07-03T09:23:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T07:23:21","slug":"sentech-blocks-sabc-in-zim-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/81515-sentech-blocks-sabc-in-zim-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Sentech blocks SABC in Zim: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sentech has scrambled SABC&#8217;s television channels in Zimbabwe, Business Day reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The switching-off of the three SABC free-to-air channels meant Zimbabweans now could only view state broadcaster, the Zimbabwean Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC), the paper reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the High Court in Johannesburg had ordered signal carrier Sentech to encrypt the signal last year.<\/p>\n<p>This was after eTV&#8217;s subsidiary eBotswana requested the same court to scramble the signal in 2011, to curb growing broadcast piracy in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Business Day said Sentech could not be reached for comment at the time of going to press.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More broadcasting news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/81085-dstv-boxoffice-catch-up-coming-to-tablets-smartphones.html\">DStv BoxOffice, Catch Up coming to tablets, smartphones<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/81013-dstv-more-subscribers-more-money.html\">DStv \u2013 more subscribers, more money<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/80775-dstv-extra-vs-premium-vs-compact.html\">DStv Extra vs Premium vs Compact<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/80697-sabc-fills-six-vacant-executive-management-positions.html\">SABC fills six vacant executive management positions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/80409-power-fm-goes-live.html\">Power FM goes live<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sentech has scrambled SABC&#8217;s television channels in Zimbabwe, Business Day reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75465,"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":[36,361,2760,3442],"class_list":["post-81515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-sabc","tag-sentech","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81515"}],"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=81515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81517,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81515\/revisions\/81517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}