The government has plans on forcing all streaming service to offer 30 percent local content if they want to launch here. Who wants to bet Disney+ is never going to be locally released?
Showmax is opening up selected content to everyone with a new ad-supported free service.
If there’s a screen in the country, the SABC is going to want its pound of flesh from it.
According to the SABC, it wants services such as Netflix, MultiChoice (DStv) and video on demand to be included, as well as to handle the collection of TV license fees. What’s more, the SABC also wants people who prefer to watch their content on smaller screens such as smartphones and laptops to cough up some coin.
In an age where people have realised that being able to dictate what they want to watch as opposed to being given scraps by state-owned enterprises, the likes of Showmax and Netflix have risen to fill a streaming need that anyone with a decent online connection can access, whether it be though a phone or a television set. The SABC wants in on that action.
Looking at the game’s official Twitter account, there’s not been a tweet there since April 23. There have been some retweets about maintenance, but there’s been no bespoke tweets for an entire month.
The streaming market might already be a crowded one, but there is yet another new player wanting to make a grab at the local market and hey are doing so by partnering with the SABC.
A new survey reveals that South Africans prefer watching tradition TV over streaming - though when they do stream, they prefer YouTube and Showmax over Netflix.
Film classification in the UK is designed to help audiences understand what content is …
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