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Local content and sport key for the MultiChoice Group in FY24

TV

Local content and sport key for the MultiChoice Group in FY24

12 Jun 2025

Source: © 123rf Media Manager Africa (Pty) Ltd has released the latest Inflation Watch covering the year 2024...

Media

Inflation Watch for 2024: All media rates, performance and MIW Index increase

19 May 2025

Competition Law

Nigerian competition agency sues MultiChoice over price hike

MacDonald Dzirutwe and Chijioke Ohuocha 6 Mar 2025

A booming continent needs a new payment infrastructure

Media

A booming continent needs a new payment infrastructure

Issued by MultiChoice 24 Jan 2025

Source: © Showmax MultiChoice SA and Showmax CEO, Marc Jury has resigned

TV

Marc Jury, MultiChoice SA and Showmax CEO, resigns

22 Nov 2024

Adtopia launches as media sales house representing leading community channels

Media

Adtopia launches as media sales house representing leading community channels

Issued by Adtopia 11 Sep 2024

TV

Canal+ raises bid for MultiChoice

Nqobile Dludla, Radhika Anilkumar, Varun H K 5 Mar 2024

Media

Canal Plus must make offer to MultiChoice shareholders, says regulator

Nqobile Dludla 28 Feb 2024

Source: © DStv Gauteng Multichoice’s annual DStv price increases have been announced to consumers and range from just over three percent to almost seven percent

TV

MultiChoice's annual DStv price increases no April Fools' joke

Danette Breitenbach 20 Feb 2024

Media

MultiChoice will pay settlement of $37.3m to Nigerian tax authorities

Nqobile Dludla 8 Feb 2024

Media

Takeover panel reviewing Canal Plus' attempt to buyout MultiChoice

Prerna Bedi and Chandini Monnappa 7 Feb 2024

Streaming

Canal Plus' R105 per share offer rejected by MultiChoice Group

Prerna Bedi 5 Feb 2024

Mobile & Apps

Showmax gets R3.2bn investment from Multichoice and NBCUniversal

Nqobile Dludla 2 Feb 2024

TV

Vivendi's Canal+ submits offer to acquire MultiChoice

Disha Mishra 1 Feb 2024

Source: © pixander The 2023 TV Establishment Survey (ES) reveals significant shifts in South Africa's TV viewing landscape

TV

2023 TV Establishment Survey finds shifts in SA's TV landscape

30 Jan 2024

Source: © Multichoice DStv, the satellite service of MultiChoice, has experienced its first downturn in its most dynamic market, South Africa

TV

Subscriber downturn leads to questions on MultiChoice's sustained success

18 Jan 2024

Streaming

MultiChoice to offer Premier League content on streaming platform Showmax

Nqobile Dludla 16 Jan 2024

Advertising

With higher fees and more ads, streaming services are cashing in using the old cable TV tactics

Kathryn Cramer Brownell 10 Jan 2024

#BestofBiz 2023, Discover the most read content on Bizcommunity's Marketing & Media site over the past year

Marketing & Media

#BestofBiz 2023: Marketing & Media

19 Dec 2023

Streaming

Multichoice profit falls, Showmax-Comcast platform to launch by early 2024

Nqobile Dludla 17 Nov 2023

Nat Geo launches Primal Survivor: Extreme African Safari in South Africa

TV

Nat Geo launches Primal Survivor: Extreme African Safari in South Africa

Issued by The Walt Disney Company Africa 16 Nov 2023

Source: © 123rf The Broadcast Research Council of South Africa's new Television Establishment Survey found that 65.5% of viewers watch through a TV set only

TV

BRC updates TV Establishment Survey to reflect global trends

14 Nov 2023

Promax Africa Awards conference hosts global experts

Film & Cinematography

Promax Africa Awards conference hosts global experts

31 Oct 2023

Source: © 123rf From 1 September 2023. BBC Studios’ multi-genre channel, BBC UKTV, will expand to DStv’s compact package while its lifestyle channel, BBC Lifestyle, will join DStv family.

TV

BBC Studios and MultiChoice expand BBC channels on DStv

25 Aug 2023

Source © Sports Industry Awards Sport in South Africa remains “serious business says the Nielsen Sports South Africa’s 2022 SA Sports Landscape report

Sponsorship

The serious business of sport in South Africa

1 Jun 2023

Afda alumna Ofentse Thinane is new SABC1 channel boss

TV

Afda alumna Ofentse Thinane is new SABC1 channel boss

Earle Holmes, Issued by Afda 18 May 2023

Animators to offer insights to local creatives

Events

Animators to offer insights to local creatives

26 Apr 2023

Source © Kheng Ho Toh With the rapid advancement in technology, advertisers now have a plethora of media types to choose from, including social media, radio, print, outdoor, and more. So is TV advertising is still as effective as it once was?

Advertising

Is television advertising still as effective as it once was?

6 Apr 2023

Biz Most Read Award winners March 2023

Media

Biz Most Read Award winners March 2023

Issued by Bizcommunity.com 1 Apr 2023

Source © Kirill Kedrinski Cape Town TV has expressed the opinion that digital migration is not the success claimed by the communications minister

TV

Broadcast digital migration will erode free-to-air TV market

27 Feb 2023

Source: © Oleksandr Pidvalnyi The digital switchover process from analogue to digital TV has marooned in Africa

TV

Analogue to digital switchover in Africa process marooned

15 Dec 2022

Source: © Jonas Von Werne The music sector is recovering, driven by live events

Marketing & Media

SA advertising rebounds in 2021

Danette Breitenbach 13 Oct 2022

Advertising

Ads are coming to Netflix soon - here's what we can expect and what that means for the streaming industry

Oliver Eklund 12 Sep 2022

Source: © Andriy Popov

TV

#SaveFreeTV campaign supports litigants in ASO case

17 May 2022

Source: © rawpixel

TV

African OTT and SVOD revenues to soar by 2027

12 Apr 2022

Source:© flickr

TV

MultiChoice expects end of $4.4bn Nigeria tax row soon

10 Mar 2022

Source: ©Tim Mossholder

TV

DStv discontinues Russia TV

3 Mar 2022

Satellite dishes connect township residents to South Africa's DSTV television network, owned by telecommunications giant Naspers, in Khayelitsha township, Cape Town, 19 May, 2017. Reuters/Mike Hutchings

TV

MultiChoice posts lower half-year profit amid cost deferrals

Priyanshi Mandhan 12 Nov 2021

Reimagined advertising strategies for an evolved TV audience

Advertising

Reimagined advertising strategies for an evolved TV audience

21 Sep 2021

WarnerMedia and AzamTV strengthen East African partnership

TV

WarnerMedia and AzamTV strengthen East African partnership

2 Sep 2021

Pay-tv cap won't save the SABC, measurement and innovation will

Advertising

Pay-tv cap won't save the SABC, measurement and innovation will

Oresti Patricios, Issued by Ornico 6 Aug 2021

MultiChoice's Showmax invests in African content for growth

Streaming

MultiChoice's Showmax invests in African content for growth

Omar Mohammed 29 Apr 2021

Media Brokerage Africa spearheads pan-African broadcast media solutions

Media

Media Brokerage Africa spearheads pan-African broadcast media solutions

Issued by Media Brokerage Africa 29 Apr 2021

Data insights: Platforms - value in content mapping and viewing

Research

Data insights: Platforms - value in content mapping and viewing

Issued by Ebony+Ivory 26 Feb 2021