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Marc Jury Marc Jury, CEO of MultiChoice South Africa and Showmax, has resigned. He will leave the group, for which he has worked for the past 10 years, at end-March 2025. In a letter to staff on Friday, MultiChoice Group CEO Calvo Mawela said Jury is leaving “to pursue opportunities in the business of sport, […]
Bob Iger returned to Walt Disney as CEO in 2022 with a bold promise of making streaming profitable. The latest quarterly results have shown signs of a turnaround at the storied media company, suggesting that Iger may be getting the House of Mickey Mouse in order by focusing on its streaming business. Disney on Thursday […]
Khusela Diko. Image: GCIS Khusela Diko, the ANC MP who chairs parliament’s portfolio committee on communications & digital technologies, has slammed communications minister Solly Malatsi’s decision to withdraw the contentious SABC Bill. Diko said on Sunday in response to the news of the minister’s decision that the move will “sound the death knell” for the […]
MultiChoice Group has warned it will deliver another set of financial results stained in red ink when it reports its half-year numbers next week. In a trading statement on Thursday, the broadcaster — which owns DStv, SuperSport and Showmax, among other assets — said that in the six months to end-September 2024, it expects to […]
The SABC has said it added 500 000 registered users to its free SABC+ streaming platform in a little over three months. This follows the “revamp” on the platform on 3 July and the launch of the service on Apple TV and popular Android-based set-top boxes. The relaunched SABC+ also supports catch-up content, video on […]