Free-to-air private broadcaster eTV has made a direct application to the Constitutional Court to appeal the dismissal of its bid to scrap the government's end of March deadline for the country's migration from analogue to digital television signal.
e.tv says its application to be apex court to hear its case is matter of constitutional importance.
Set-top boxes are government-sponsored devices given to indigent households with an income of R3 500 or less. e.tv argues that the process of rolling out set-top boxes has not been properly conducted, and the migration, despite the court-extended deadline, will affect its viewers who depend on free-to-air broadcasts.
Last month, the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria ruled that e.tv had not proven that there were 2.5 million households that still required set-top boxes. The company still maintains that digital migration"can and should happen" but the process must be conducted in a constitutionally compliant and appropriate manner.
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