A restrictive Rugby World Cup sub-licensing deal between the SABC and MultiChoice has caused major technical headaches for South Africa’s public broadcaster.
South Africans hoping to watch the SABC’s broadcast of the Springboks’ first World Cup match against Scotland faced a mountain of complications on Sunday.on Thursday, allowing the SABC to broadcast a number of matches.
As a result, viewers who rely on South Africa’s digital terrestrial television platform found that the Springboks’ first Rugby World Cup game was not available on SABC 2 — it had been moved to SABC News.“The SABC can confirm that it is indeed restricted by MultiChoice’s anti-competitive terms and conditions, and cannot broadcast to the over 3.2 million households on the Openview platform,” SABC acting corporate affairs and marketing executive Mmoni Seapolelo told MyBroadband.
SABC 1, SABC 2, and SABC 3 are available on DStv, Openview, StarSat, and South Africa’s new digital and old analogue terrestrial television networks operated by Sentech. In addition to the channel hopscotch, the SABC and its online platform provider Discover Digital also had problems keeping its streaming service online during the Springboks game on Sunday.“The SABC has noted some users experienced disruptions in transmission on the SABCPlus App,” Seapolelo stated.
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