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Showing posts with label Imtiaz Patel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Imtiaz Patel. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Last week MultiChoice toppers Imtiaz Patel, Jim Volkwyn and Byron du Plessis cashed in R9.6 million in shares before the pay-TV company announced lower revenue expectations this week which saw it share price tanking.

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by Thinus Ferreira Three MultiChoice directors - chairman Imtiaz Patel, MultiChoice Africa director Byron du Plessis and non-executive direc...
Sunday, December 26, 2021

MultiChoice and M-Net's Carte Blanche running a special Desmond Tutu pop-up channel on DStv channel 199 following his death on Sunday at 90.

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by Thinus Ferreira Following the death of South Africa's Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu at 90, MultiChoice and M-Net will be running a...
Monday, October 18, 2021

TV REVIEW. MultiChoice and M-Net's 1 Night with Mzansi special done from Dubai is little more than boring puffery and yawnful paint-by-numbers programmatic content.

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by Thinus Ferreira 2 TVs out of 10 The boring and disappointing  1 Night with Mzansi variety TV special of MultiChoice and M-Net that ran o...
Thursday, August 6, 2020

MultiChoice boss Calvo Mawela sees pay jump of 125% to R27.5 million after pay-TV employment transfer to Dubai.

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by Thinus Ferreira MultiChoice CEO Calvo Mawela has had a total pay increase over the last financial year of 125% with the total remune...
Friday, June 12, 2020

MultiChoice wants to be a ‘one-stop shop’ for TV content, next DStv Explora will provide access to Netflix, Amazon Prime Video OTT streamers.

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by Thinus Ferreira MultiChoice's new DStv Explora decoder will be the first that will have the "shelf space" capability a...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

Sports minister Nathi Mthethwa, MultiChoice, SuperSport, the SABC and the PSL on Thursday still 'finding each other in the impasse' over Absa Premiership public broadcasting rights crisis as promised Thursday announcement is pushed to Friday.

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South Africa's sports minister Nathi Mthethwa failed to properly manage his self-announced , self-set and self-created public expecta...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

South Africa's sports minister says MultiChoice and the Premier Soccer League will on Thursday announce some solution to have Absa Premiership matches broadcast on the embattled SABC that can't pay for it.

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South Africa's minister of sports, Nathi Mthethwa announced that his department, the pay-TV operator MultiChoice and the Premier Socc...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Mega-millions for MultiChoice's top bosses who bunker out in Dubai and who don't live on the African continent as pay-TV execs oversee 'Africa's leading entertainment company'.

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MultiChoice's top bosses are raking in mega-million salaries overseeing "Africa's leading entertainment company" althou...
Monday, January 21, 2019

The massive million rand salaries of MultiChoice bosses revealed as The MultiChoice Group prepares to list and start trading on the JSE from 27 February 2019.

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The massive million rand salaries have been revealed of the top executives at The MultiChoice Group as the pay-TV arm of Naspers plans to...
Friday, October 26, 2018

Naspers does executive shuffle for the newly-created MultiChoice Group before its planned spin-off and listing on the JSE in 2019, with Calvo Mawela as CEO.

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Naspers that has dumped and respawned its Naspers Video Entertainment unit as the MultiChoice Group business , has done an executive shuff...
Monday, September 17, 2018

BREAKING. Naspers to spin off and list its video entertainment business MultiChoice on the JSE as the MultiChoice Group including MultiChoice SA, MultiChoice Africa and Showmax in Africa during first half of 2019.

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Naspers, as expected, announced late on Monday that it plans to spin off and list its video entertainment business, MultiChoice on the...
Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Niclas Ekdahl to head up Naspers' new Connected Video business unit that will now encapsulate its OTT services, Showmax and DStv Now.

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Nicklas Ekdahl  (48) has been appointed as CEO of Naspers' new Connected Video business unit that now encapsulates its subscription vi...
Monday, January 22, 2018

Why has South Africa's broadcasting regulator, Icasa, after 8 weeks done nothing yet to start an investigation into MultiChoice's payments to ANN7, asks South Africa's Democratic Alliance political party.

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South Africa's Democratic Alliance (DA) political party wants to know why South Africa's broadcasting regulator, the Independent ...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

MultiChoice now caught in lies as the Naspers and MultiChoice scandal around its undue influence of South Africa's digital TV migration process keeps growing.

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MultiChoice is now caught in lies as Naspers and MultiChoice's scandal keeps growing about its alleged involvement undue influence on...
Saturday, November 25, 2017

More #GuptaLeaks engulfs MultiChoice in growing scandal over its controversial ANN7 contract; says there's nothing wrong paying ANN7 R141 380 000 per year.

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More #GuptaLeaks revelations are engulfing MultiChoice in a growing scandal over its controversial ANN7 contract with the Guptas, with Mu...
Thursday, November 16, 2017

Executive shake-up at MultiChoice as pay-TV giant makes Calvo Mawela new CEO; and moves Mark Rayner, Yolisa Phahle and Fahmeeda Cassim Surtee.

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Naspers Video Entertainment announced a MultiChoice top executives shake-up on late Thursday afternoon with Calvo Mawela as new MultiC...