Malawians cry foul over e.tv and CNBC Africa blackout
24 Aug 2009
Thousands of Malawians who were able to access South Africa's e.tv and CNBC Africa television stations through the free-to-air digital satellite have cried foul over the blackout of the stations for three weeks now.
There has been no information or contact about why transmission of the two stations was lost.
One concerned viewer, a Lilongwe capital city resident Dan Eddie Nthara wrote to the editor of one of Malawi's dailies The Nation where he wanted fellow knowledgeable Malawians to explain to the other viewers what actually happened to the channels.
“The South African based e.tv was one of such channels which most Malawians liked viewing in the absence of the Multichoice subscribed decoders,” wrote Nthara.
The stations are currently beaming a ‘scramble channel' over a black screen, frustrating Malawian viewers who have been watching the two channels.
About Gregory Gondwe
Gregory Gondwe is a Malawian journalist who started writing in 1993. He is also a media consultant assisting several international journalists pursuing assignments in Malawi. He holds a Diploma and an Intermediate Certificate in Journalism among other media-related certificates. He can be contacted on moc.liamg@ewdnogyrogerg. Follow him on Twitter at @Kalipochi.
