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MultiChoice is a South African company that operates DStv, a major satellite television service in Sub-Saharan Africa, and GOtv, a minor service operating in over nine countries of this area and Showmax service. MultiChoice was formed out of the subscriber-management branch of the M-Net terrestrial pay television company, and broadcasts the ...
Website. Official website. Digital Satellite Television, abbreviated DStv, is a Sub-Saharan African direct broadcast satellite service owned by MultiChoice and based and with headquarters in Randburg, South Africa. DStv provides audio, radio and television channels and services to subscribers across 50 countries, [1][2] mostly in South Africa ...
In 1914, eight years after the end of the Second Boer War which had devastated most of South Africa and left most Afrikaners impoverished and subject to the British Empire, a group of prominent Cape Afrikaners decided at a meeting in Stellenbosch to form a publishing company that would support Afrikaner nationalism [6] in the Union of South Africa. [7]
Channel 405. Newsroom Afrika is a South African 24-hour digital satellite television news channel broadcast across Africa on DStv. [1][2][3] It is one of two channels on the platform that is 100% black-owned, and 50% female-owned. [4] The channel comes after MultiChoice ended their contract with the now defunct and controversial Afro Worldview. [5]
SuperSport (South African broadcaster) SuperSport is a prominent sports broadcaster with a rich history of international operations. Originally, it extended its reach beyond Africa, [1] operating in various European regions, including Scandinavia, Benelux, Italy, Eastern Europe, Greece, and Cyprus. These operations were initially launched by ...
Showmax is an online subscription video on demand (SVOD) service that launched [2] in South Africa on 19 August 2015. [3] Its majority owner is MultiChoice, which owns 70% of the Showmax group, while American conglomerate NBCUniversal owns 30% in all territories except Nigeria, where NBCUniversal holds an indirect 23.7% stake in the local subsidiary. [4]
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) [a] is the public broadcaster in South Africa, and provides 19 radio stations (AM/FM) as well as six television broadcasts to the general public. [3] It is one of the largest of South Africa's state-owned enterprises. In November 2022, the SABC launched its streaming service called SABC+.
ANN7 (2013 - 2018) ANN7 (Africa News Network 7), later renamed to Afro Worldview, was a 24-hour satellite TV news channel that operated from August 2013 to August 2018 in South Africa. It was established and owned by the Gupta family. The channel was broadcast on the DStv satellite television service owned by Multichoice.