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MultiChoice Group Ltd. MultiChoice is a South African company that operates DStv, a major satellite television service in Sub-Saharan Africa, and GOtv, a minor service operating in over nine countries of this area and Showmax service. MultiChoice was formed out of the subscriber-management branch of the M-Net terrestrial pay television company ...
DStv. Digital Satellite Television, abbreviated DStv, is a Sub-Saharan African direct broadcast satellite service owned by MultiChoice and based and with headquarters in Randburg, South Africa. DStv provides audio, radio and television channels and services to subscribers across 50 countries, [1] [2] mostly in South Africa, Nigeria and Zimbabwe.
Showmax is an online subscription video on demand (SVOD) service that launched [2] in South Africa on 19 August 2015. [3] Its majority owner is MultiChoice, which owns 70% of the Showmax group, while NBCUniversal owns 30% in all territories except Nigeria, where NBCUniversal holds an indirect 23.7% stake in the local subsidiary. [4] In 2023, Showmax announced a partnership with Comcast's ...
Over almost three decades, MultiChoice has become Africa’s undisputed leader in video entertainment. The company both aggregates and produces shows for its richly diverse audience with millions ...
South African pay TV company MultiChoice Group and U.S. media conglomerate Comcast's NBCUniversal Media will invest about $177 million in Showmax's video streaming platform during its current ...
The terrestrial TV service was founded in October 2011 by MultiChoice. It features news channels such as the BBC, Al Jazeera and CNN, sports channels such as SuperSport and ESPN, local & international content from Africa Magic and M-Net Movies among others, including free-to-air channels. It is currently available in countries such as Nigeria, Kenya, Namibia, Ghana, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique ...
SuperSport (South African broadcaster) SuperSport is a South African-based group of television channels carried on the DStv & Canal+ satellite platforms alongside the GOtv terrestrial platform and Showmax Pro for live sports programming. It provides sports content in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and many other African countries. [1]
South African-based MultiChoice's DStv is the main digital satellite television provider in Sub-Saharan Africa, broadcasting principally in English, but also in Portuguese, Hindi, German and Afrikaans.