SA Government Might Enforce A Local Quota On Linear Platforms
The government is considering adding a local quota onto streaming services where 30% of the programming needs to come from South Africa. So they're likely to go after DStv, Starsat and OpenView. While they're looking at the content for streaming platforms. On cable they might exploring more aspects such as the channels offered by these operators. MULTICHOICE: One things for certain is they've slowly begun investing more in local programming look at M-Net they've started prepping up dramas such as Trackers , Inconcievable and ongoing soap opera, Legacy . Internationally, most channels offer very little local content you have Comedy Central with its CC Roast Special , MTV and Lasizwe and E! with Celebrity Game Night . No one knows if the government will inflict the quota on these type of channels or the extant of them. This year alone they managed to get stations like the interactive wilderness channel Wild Earth, KykNet's pop-up movie channel fliekNET returned