The company has announced that from today, all DStv Premium, Compact Plus and Compact customers will have access to two concurrent streams as part of their subscription, giving them the freedom to watch on any device, including smart TVs, laptops or smartphones.
MultiChoice will integrate its 1Max programming onto the Mzansi Magic channel from 31 March 2025, significantly enhancing its content offering.
The controversial commentator Prof Onkgopotse JJ Tabane’s show Power to Truth on eNCA (DStv 403) is finished and ended a week after TimesLIVE was forced to retract a spurious column by Tabane it published on 21 January.
SAB aired its Brutal Fruit TV commercial on Warner Bros. Discovery’s Discovery (DStv 121) channel on MultiChoice’s DStv satellite pay-TV service.
The SABC has struck a deal with DStv owner MultiChoice to bring SuperSport Schools to the public broadcaster’s free streaming service, SABC+.
France’s Canal+ will restructure MultiChoice and carve out its broadcasting licence and South African DStv subscribers into “Licence Co” as a new separate entity while the remainder contains its video assets as the MultiChoice Group.
The latest Google Trends data shows that DStv enjoys a significant lead over its main competitors, SABC and Openview, in South Africa’s traditional linear TV market.