Showing posts with label digital terrestrial television. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital terrestrial television. Show all posts
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Court halts South African television's 31 March 2025 analogue TV switch-off

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by Thinus Ferreira The Pretoria High Court on Thursday stopped the South African government from switching off South Africa's analogue T...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

e.tv to court again to demand further extension in South Africa's digital TV switch-over with 'devastating impact' warning for country's TV ratings

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by Thinus Ferreira South Africa's umbrella TV broadcasters, together with organisations supporting public broadcasting, are back in cour...
Friday, December 6, 2024

As millions continue to watch on analogue South Africa's deadline for switch to digital TV is pushed out again

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by Thinus Ferreira South Africa's latest switch-off deadline of 31 December 2024  for analogue transmitters in the country's long-de...
Thursday, December 5, 2024

DTT: South African TV's R12 billion, 496 000 undone, 'unmitigated disaster'

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by Thinus Ferreira The South African government has spent over R12 billion on the "unmitigated disaster" that is the country's...
Tuesday, July 4, 2023

'Just a mess': South Africa's public broadcaster lost 40% of its audience in 5 provinces as former SABC CEO slams government's analogue switch-off 'not done properly'.

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by Thinus Ferreira The struggling South African public broadcaster which will post yet another loss for its 2022/2023 financial year of over...
Friday, August 26, 2022

244 000 poor South African TV households still waiting on their digital terrestrial TV installation and government set-top box.

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by Thinus Ferreira Close to a quarter million poor South African TV households are still waiting for their subsidised digital terrestrial te...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

South Africa's High Court orders a technical delay of the country's analogue TV switch-off date from April to July 2022.

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by Thinus Ferreira South Africa's high court has ordered the country's government and its department of communications and digital t...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

CTV warns: Millions of South African viewers to lose free TV access in government's rushed switch-off plan.

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by Thinus Ferreira Cape Town TV (CTV) is joining the chorus of extremely concerned voices warning about the South African government's s...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

31 March 2022 - The final switch-off of South Africa's analogue TV signals.

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by Thinus Ferreira 31 March 2022 - This is the date that South Africa's analogue TV signals across the country will finally be switched ...
Thursday, October 7, 2021

South Africa's TV ratings set to tank in suddenly rushed digital migration plan: TAMS and e.tv warn millions of TV households will be wiped away and lose access, severely damaging TV biz and advertisers.

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by Thinus Ferreira South Africa's TV ratings are set to tank.  That's the stark warning from the custodian body of South Africa'...
Wednesday, October 6, 2021

South Africa's government now ready to leave millions of poor analogue TV households behind in long-delayed digital migration switch that that gets yet another revised deadline of March 2022 for completion.

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by Thinus Ferreira The South African government is now ready to leave millions of analogue TV viewers behind in its switch to digital terres...
Wednesday, April 7, 2021

After 3-year break with digital migration Nigeria says the country is restarting its switch-over process, plans to complete DTT transition by end of 2022.

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by Thinus Ferreira After a 3-year break during which nothing happened, Nigeria's government now plans to resume its digital migration pr...