Showing posts with label StarTimes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label StarTimes. Show all posts
Friday, October 4, 2024

Angry StarSat subscribers demand and are entitled to refunds

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by Thinus Ferreira StarSat subscriber Sonja van Graan Wright in Durban had no idea why her pay-TV service on Wednesday morning went dead in ...
Saturday, January 6, 2024

SABC, StarTimes and StarSat sublicense full 2023 Afcon tournament from New World TV widening the cracks in MultiChoice's SuperSport dominance.

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by Thinus Ferreira In a challenge to the sports content dominance of MultiChoice and SuperSport, the South African public broadcaster and Ch...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

MultiChoice adds Qwest TV to DStv, StarTimes adds Kartoon Channel! for StarSat as 2023's first TV channel add-ons.

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by Thinus Ferreira  MultiChoice is adding Qwest TV as a music channel while StarTimes is adding Kartoon Channel! as a kids channel, as the f...
Friday, August 5, 2022

Warner Bros. Discovery to combine HBO Max and discovery+ video streamers under new name, earliest South Africa launch in late-2024 or later.

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by Thinus Ferreira South Africans will never get access to the global video streaming services HBO Max or discovery+, with these streamers n...

eMedia to enter South Africa's pay-TV market in 2023 competing against MultiChoice and StarTimes, will roll out new Openview decoder, Android box and build VFX studio.

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by Thinus Ferreira Sixteen years after it was awarded a licence in mid-2007 to start a subscription television service, eMedia finally plans...

It's with Them: This is Us jumps from M-Net to Disney+ as streaming steals from DStv.

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by Thinus Ferreira DStv subscribers who started watching the American drama series This is Us on M-Net will now have to switch to Disney+ t...
Thursday, August 4, 2022

Nigeria fines MultiChoice, StarTimes and TStv over R200 000 for airing BBC Africa Eye investigative documentary on Nigerian gangs.

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by Thinus Ferreira Nigeria has fined MultiChoice's DStv, China's StarTimes and TelCom's TSTV over R200 000 each for broadcasting...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Russia's RT channel eyes African expansion with a South African newsroom run by Paula Slier.

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by Thinus Ferreira Russia's RT channel has embarked on expansion plans in Africa, starting to set up headquarters on the continent in So...
Friday, June 10, 2022

StarSat does a 10% subscription fee price hike across packages from July 2022, blames inflation and South Africa's worsening economy.

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by Thinus Ferreira China's StarTimes pay-TV service, operating as StarSat in South Africa will be hiking its subscription prices by 10% ...
Monday, March 14, 2022

MultiChoice adds DreamWorks kids channel from NBCUniversal International Networks to DStv.

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by Thinus Ferreira MultiChoice has expanded its kids entertainment offering, adding the DreamWorks channel from NBCUniversal International N...
Thursday, February 17, 2022

DreamWorks axed on StarTimes and StarSat across Africa.

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by Thinus Ferreira Pay-TV subscribers of China's StarTimes, operating as StarSat in South Africa, lost yet another TV channel on Thursda...

FOX News International starts streaming in South Africa and 6 other African countries.

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by Thinus Ferreira The right-wing American channel FOX News will start streaming in South Africa and 6 other African countries from today wi...
Monday, January 10, 2022

Africa's pay-TV subscribers to grow to 57 million by 2027 as top-three operators MultiChoice, StarTimes and Canal Plus will be forced to cut prices to woo customers.

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by Thinus Ferreira Africa's pay-TV subscriber base will increase by another 18 million pay-TV customers over the next 5 years to 57 mill...
Wednesday, January 5, 2022

StarTimes acquires broadcasting rights to 2021 Africa Cup of Nations for sub-Saharan Africa set for 9 January in Cameroon.

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by Thinus Ferreira China's StarTimes pay-TV service in Africa has acquired the broadcasting rights for sub-Saharan Africa for the Confed...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

StarSat loses the Love Nature channel from Canada's Blue Ant Media after just two years.

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by Thinus Ferreira StarSat is losing Love Nature (StarSat 224) as the next TV channel that is being removed from StarTimes' pay-TV servi...
Tuesday, November 2, 2021

StarSat adds C12 TV as a 'docu-tainment' channel showing 'history, empowerment, lifestyle and entertainment' content.

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by Thinus Ferreira China's StarTimes pay-TV operator has added C12 TV as a new TV channel to its StarSat service in South Africa. StarSa...
Friday, October 29, 2021

eMedia's Openview in South Africa and StarTimes in Kenya adding ZEE's Zee One channel from November.

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by Thinus Ferreira eMedia's Openview satellite service will add the Zee One channel from Zee Entertainment Enterprises from 1 November o...
Friday, October 1, 2021

StarTimes' StarSat loses the Smithsonian Channel from ViacomCBS Networks after just a year and a half.

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by Thinus Ferreira StarTimes operating as StarSat in South Africa has abruptly lost the Smithsonian Channel after a year and a half. The Smi...
Monday, August 30, 2021

Online petition started as Africa's pay-TV viewers implore Disney to keep the FOX channel on MultiChoice's DStv, StarTimes and StarSat across the continent.

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by Thinus Ferreira Angry pay-TV subscribers in South Africa and across sub-Saharan Africa are signing a new petition  for the FOX channel to...