{"id":99740,"date":"2014-04-01T09:27:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T07:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=99740"},"modified":"2014-04-01T10:26:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T08:26:04","slug":"naspers-pay-tv-head-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/99740-naspers-pay-tv-head-quits.html","title":{"rendered":"Naspers pay-TV head quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Naspers\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/367138-Naspers\">Naspers<\/a> has announced that CEO of the group\u2019s pay-TV segment, <a title=\"Eben Greyling\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/540803-Eben-Greyling\">Eben Greyling<\/a>, has stepped down from his position, \u201cto take a break and pursue new interests\u201d after more than 18 years with the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEben has been instrumental in building the group\u2019s successful pay-TV businesses across the continent. Under his leadership over the last five years the subscriber base and turnover of the pay-TV businesses more than doubled,\u201d Naspers said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Jim Volkwyn\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/607774-Jim-Volkwyn\">Jim Volkwyn<\/a>, previous head of the group\u2019s pay-TV segment, will take over the reins from 1 April 2014, the media and internet group said.<\/p>\n<p>Group chief executive <a title=\"Koos Bekker\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/487400-Koos-Bekker\">Koos Bekker<\/a> also steps down in April after 17 years at Naspers and will be replaced by e-commerce chief <a title=\"Bob van Dijk\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/607766-Bob-van-Dijk\">Bob van Dijk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Naspers<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/99284-mtn-steppa-sold-over-60000-naspers.html\">MTN Steppa sold over 60,000: Naspers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/97387-ruthless-naspers-decision-destroyed-a-great-venture.html\">\u201cRuthless Naspers decision destroyed a great venture\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/97263-koos-bekker-steps-down-as-naspers-ceo.html\">Koos Bekker steps down as Naspers CEO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/97239-reason-behind-naspers-websites-shutdown-plans.html\">Reason behind Naspers websites shutdown plans<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naspers has announced that CEO of the group\u2019s pay-TV segment, Eben Greyling, has stepped down from his position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":84373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,20123,1649,1643],"class_list":["post-99740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-eben-greyling","tag-koos-bekker","tag-naspers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99740"}],"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=99740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99744,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99740\/revisions\/99744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}