South African based satellite TV company in Sub-Saharan Africa
For the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation's cable television service, see Multi-Choice TV.
MultiChoice Group Ltd.
Formerly
M-Net Subscription services division
Company type
Public
Traded as
JSE: MCG
Industry
Broadcasting Pay television
Predecessor
M-Net
Founded
9 November 1994; 29 years ago (1994-11-09)
Headquarters
Ferndale,
Randburg
,
South Africa
Areas served
Sub-Saharan Africa Cape Verde Madagascar
Products
Satellite television
Brands
DStv GOtv Showmax SuperSport M-Net BetKing (49%)
Revenue
$48 bn[1] (2023)
Net income
$7.8 bn (2023)
Total assets
$14 bn (2023)
Owner
Groupe Canal+ (Vivendi) (42.47%) Allan Gray (3.95%) The Vanguard Group (2.58%)
Website
MultiChoice website
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, and broadcasts the full range of M-Net channels on the DStv service. MultiChoice is owned by the media conglomerate of the same name. One of the subsidiaries of MultiChoice is DStv Now, renamed as DStv App, a service that delivers television transmission to mobile devices such as laptops, smart phones and notebooks.[2]
Formerly, MultiChoice had operations in the Scandinavian, Benelux, Italy, Eastern Europe, Greek & Cypriot regions under the Filmnet TV service, Egypt under CNE (Cable Network of Egypt), Middle East under Gulf TV and Arab Radio and Television Network & Thailand under UBC (United Broadcasting Corporation).
In 2020, MultiChoice had a total subscriber base of 20.1 million viewers throughout Africa, and Naspers asserted that MultiChoice was one of the fastest growing pay-TV operators globally.[3][4][5]
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DStv in 2019. On 29 May 2018, MultiChoice South Africa and the University of Pretoria jointly announced that Multichoice would sponsor a Research Chair...
"Discovery Channel and BBC World join Multichoice dstv", Africa Film & TV Magazine, nº. 8, January-February 1996 "MultiChoice DStv subscribers rocket", Africa...
Multiple choice (MC), objective response or MCQ (for multiple choice question) is a form of an objective assessment in which respondents are asked to...
the documentary features many voices, Showmax and broadcasting service Multichoice chose not to interview alleged accomplice Nandipha and convicted murder...
from all MultiChoice networks, most notably DStv after Steve's song "Die Land" (The Land) was removed from an award show category from Multichoice request...
MultiChoice has denied these allegations, noting that Carrim confirmed that he had no personal knowledge of any fraud or corruption on MultiChoice's part...
things you probably didn't know about the Multichoice Nigeria MD". Pulse Nigeria. Retrieved 2022-01-31. "MultiChoice Gets 1st Nigerian MD - P.M. News". Retrieved...
was spun off as MultiChoice Group, on 27 February 2019, represented as MCG on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Shares in Multichoice Group were unbundled...
that launched in South Africa on 19 August 2015. Its majority owner is MultiChoice, which owns 70% of the Showmax group, while NBCUniversal owns 30% in...
that is 100% black-owned, and 50% female-owned. The channel comes after MultiChoice ended their contract with the now defunct and controversial Afro Worldview...
African Stories at MultiChoice". The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News. 2021-11-28. Retrieved 2022-01-31. "Multichoice Nigeria: Championing...
television terrestrial service in sub-Saharan Africa owned by broadcaster MultiChoice and launched on 5 September 2011. It mainly consists of African and international...
satellite television general entertainment channel created by M-Net and MultiChoice for DStv. It is one of the resultant channels from the M-Net series channel...
Market. Season 1 began airing on 20 March 2022 on M-Net. Distributed by MultiChoice and Global Screen, and was released internationally on Acorn TV on 5...
operating around the world. beIN My-HD OSN Crystal TV - Digital Terrestrial Multichoice - DSTV & GOTV Multitv - Multichannel free to air RCS - Multichannel free...
Most recently, Mayo served as an assistant coach to Chippa United's MultiChoice Diski Challenge team. Mayo made 18 appearances for the South Africa national...
MultiChoice announced on live television that the new sponsor would be DStv, effectively rebranding the league as the DStv Premiership. MultiChoice also...
associate sponsor is HFM Nigeria. According to the organizers of the show MultiChoice, the winner of the season is expected to win a total of ₦120 million...
direct-broadcast satellite broadcasting services on 2 October 1995, soon after MultiChoice launched DStv. Two years later the SABC launched its ill-fated satellite...
collectively own 250 radio and Television stations. Mr. John Ugbe, representing MultiChoice Nigeria Limited, is the 14th and current Chairman of BON, while Dr. Mansur...
DStv Select 1 is a DStv bouquet of selected TV channels from MultiChoice, a multi-channel digital satellite TV service in Africa. In addition to the TV...
launched a 24-hour news channel on DStv, as part of an agreement with MultiChoice that also saw the launch of SABC Encore. SABC News head Jimi Matthews...
WAW and a host of many others. According to the organizers of the show MultiChoice, the winner of the season six is expected to win a total of ₦90 million...
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