E.tv has decided to block it's free signal in Zimbabwe where viewers got it through using the WizTech decoder to get the channel as well as the SABC's 3 free channels, SABC1, SABC2 and SABC3. (The SABC is expected to soon block these channels as well.
E.tv is actually now blocking it's channel in the whole of Africa and I'm awaiting official word from e.tv. I'll post an UPDATE as soon as I get anything.
Viewers will have to go back to Zimbabwe's sad ZBC, while 700 Zimbabwe TV viewers have reactivated their DStv subscriptions already in just the past few days.
UPDATE 14:00 - I've just heard back from e.tv regarding this issue. The channel says e.tv's signal - that was pirated by certain viewers in Africa - presented certain rights issues. E.tv didn't have the right to broadcast certain material (eg. movies) to the rest of the continent, ''so it became important for us to stop those broadcasts for this reason,'' Vasili Vass, e.tv spokesperson just told me.
''With the launch of e.tv Ghana this allows us to broadcast e.tv into Africa with content licenced for that particular region. The important thing is that Zimbabwe hasn't been targeted at all. E.tv had to encrypt our signal for the rest of Africa.''
