This comes after the board had given them approval over remaining shares on MultiChoice. As the companies are working on a possible restructure to present to local legislation.
DStv is known to over 100 channels that consist of sports, movies, drama series, reality shows, cartoons and news. From our understanding, a majority of audiences can only watch a select amount of entertainment at such a short time.
They would be The Super Mario Movie at 14:30 on M-Net Movies 1 followed by Along Came Love at 16:00 on TLNovelas. Only the average viewer can watch 1 channel on a daily basis while others can view daytime repeats with more available to browse on DStv Catch Up.
As much as some would hope that DStv could give them the option to pay for select channels that is physically impossible. Firstly, they do offer a range of channels each with a price tag and the costs for a divided offering wouldn't cover other portions of the platform.
Look at it from a viewer's standpoint, someone could be paying R20 for only kids channels compared to another paying R550 for sports. As mentioned, they all come at a price and its more about what comes into a channel than the quantity of outlets.
Sports has proven to be the most expensive within DStv some are hoping that if the rate is at R300 that it would be positioned like that in 5 years. When it's never going to be the case as there continues to be a demand for such within MultiChoice's stable.
SuperSport is home to variety of sports which is more than what any broadcaster in the world can carry. You can take away Premier League but imagine once paying R300 through DStv and now having to pay additional fees on top of DStv when Apple TV+ gets exclusivity.
When Saada says it is going fail he means it look at Top TV (now StarSat) which was an unbundled DStv that were at a point of bankruptcy and possible liquidation. Fast forward to eMedia Investments' endeavors whose EDGE offering has merged with eVOD.
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