{"id":87262,"date":"2013-09-19T16:52:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T14:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=87262"},"modified":"2013-09-20T12:40:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T10:40:37","slug":"sabc-cant-stop-us-openview-hd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/87262-sabc-cant-stop-us-openview-hd.html","title":{"rendered":"SABC can\u2019t stop us: OpenView HD"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenView HD operator Platco Digital<\/a>, a sister company to E-tv<\/a>, has said in a statement on Thursday, 19 September 2013, that the SABC<\/a> cannot prevent them from broadcasting their channels.<\/p>\n

Platco was responding to a statement issued by the SABC earlier that day, in which the public broadcaster accused it of \u201cmisleading the public\u201d.<\/p>\n

The SABC said that it has no agreement with Platco regarding its channels, and appealed to Platco to \u201cwithdraw its statements and pronouncements immediately\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, according to Platco the SABC as the public broadcaster has various obligations and any attempts by the SABC to prevent Platco from carrying the SABC channels would be unlawful.<\/p>\n

Platco reaffirmed that OpenView HD will be broadcasting SABC 1, 2, and 3 when it launches.<\/p>\n

The full statement from Platco is reproduced below:<\/p>\n

Platco Digital notes with interest SABC\u2019s statement of 19th of September, regarding their inclusion on the OpenView HD platform.<\/p>\n

Platco is surprised by the statement issued by the SABC. Platco will be carrying SABC 1, 2 and 3 from the launch date. The SABC as the public broadcaster has various obligations and any attempts by the SABC to prevent Platco from carrying the SABC channels would be unlawful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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New free satellite TV has SABC agreement<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Platco has responded to a strongly-worded statement the SABC issued accusing them of lying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":82799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[35,20531,20533,2760,19949],"class_list":["post-87262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-headline","tag-openview-hd","tag-platco-digital","tag-sentech","tag-south-african-broadcasting-corporation-sabc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87262"}],"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=87262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87304,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87262\/revisions\/87304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}