{"id":83823,"date":"2013-08-11T13:02:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T11:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=83823"},"modified":"2013-08-11T13:04:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T11:04:28","slug":"free-satellite-tv-licensing-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/83823-free-satellite-tv-licensing-concerns.html","title":{"rendered":"Free satellite TV licensing concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Platco Digital\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/547417-Platco-Digital\">Platco Digital<\/a> managing director <a title=\"Maxwell Nonge\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/550623-Maxwell-Nonge\">Maxwell Nonge<\/a> has told MyBroadband that the company does not expect any regulatory problems for its subscription-free satellite TV service, OpenView HD.<\/p>\n<p>They are still awaiting feedback from the regulator; &#8220;ICASA is still following its processes,&#8221; Nonge said.<\/p>\n<p>There has been some concern that Platco does not have the necessary licenses to broadcast in South Africa, which the <a title=\"E-tv\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/313641-e-tv\">E-tv<\/a> sister company has argued it doesn\u2019t need.<\/p>\n<p>Nonge has said that E-tv also has all the licenses they need to offer just about any kind of telecommunications service in South Africa, from broadband to broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Platco has received approval from the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (<a title=\"Icasa\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226385-ICASA\">Icasa<\/a>) to uplink to the satellite they will be using in SES&#8217;s Astra 5\u00b0E system. This is the same satellite as TopTV uses.<\/p>\n<p>Platco is still waiting on approval for the channels it plans broadcast, Nonge said, but added that they don\u2019t anticipate any issues. OpenView HD\u2019s line-up conforms to Icasa\u2019s requirements, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what the implications are for OpenView HD when it says it will only provide carriage for already-licensed broadcasters, Nonge explained that you would need a free-to-air license to broadcast your channels on OpenView.<\/p>\n<p>In South Africa, this limits the broadcasters they can offer services to to <a title=\"SABC\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/313653-South-African-Broadcasting-Corporation-(SABC)\">SABC<\/a>, E-tv, and possibly community broadcasters, Nonge said.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More OpenView HD and broadcasting news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/83737-free-satellite-tv-for-sa-channel-genres-pvr-plans.html\"><strong>Free satellite TV for SA: channel genres, PVR plans<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/83207-openview-hd-free-satellite-tv-decoder-details.html\"><strong>OpenView HD free satellite TV decoder details<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/82847-free-openview-hd-tv-broadcaster-signs-15-year-satellite-deal.html\"><strong>Free OpenView HD TV broadcaster signs 15 year satellite deal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/82551-free-sd-and-hd-satellite-tv-for-sa.html\"><strong>Free SD and HD satellite TV for SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/83435-dstv-explora-vs-hd-pvr.html\"><strong>DStv Explora vs HD PVR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenView HD does not expect to be held up by regulatory compliance issues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":83721,"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":[35,2136,20837,20709,20533],"class_list":["post-83823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-headline","tag-independent-communications-authority-of-south-africa","tag-maxwell-nonge","tag-openview-hd-ovhd","tag-platco-digital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83823"}],"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=83823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83899,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83823\/revisions\/83899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}