{"id":108343,"date":"2016-01-08T11:11:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T09:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=108343"},"modified":"2016-01-08T11:12:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T09:12:02","slug":"here-is-why-dstv-costs-so-much-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/108343\/here-is-why-dstv-costs-so-much-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Here is why DStv costs so much money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SuperSport has paid<strong> \u00a3296 million<\/strong> for the 2016-19 Barclays Premier League broadcast rights\u00a0in sub-Saharan Africa, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mailonsunday.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-3382281\/New-year-new-TV-billions-Premier-League-rules-world-foreign-sales-games-set-hit-1billion-year-2016-deals.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Mail Online reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This would have cost MultiChoice around <strong>R6 billion in August 2015<\/strong> when the deal was signed.<\/p>\n<p>If payment were delayed until later in 2015, after President Jacob Zuma\u2019s decision that lead to the <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/149223-rand-plummets-after-zuma-removes-finance-minister.html\"><strong>Nene\/Van Rooyen debacle<\/strong><\/a>, it would have cost closer to R7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Asked where on the scale between R6 billion-R7 billion the deal fell, SuperSport only said it was aware of the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOthers are free to speculate, but SuperSport does not disclose the nature or costs of broadcast,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/147761-dstv-still-making-good-money-for-naspers.html\"><strong>Naspers recently reported<\/strong><\/a> that MultiChoice\u2019s programming and production costs for the six month period between April and September 2015 was R5.8 billion.<\/p>\n<p>This was over 25%, or R1.1 billion, higher than the same period in 2014.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on DStv<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/columns\/81685\/why-dstv-is-worth-the-money\/\">Why DStv is worth the money<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/80933\/multichoice-hikes-dstv-prices\/\">Multichoice hikes DStv prices<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/95303\/multichoice-explains-why-we-cant-have-supersport-only-packages\/\"><strong>MultiChoice explains why we can\u2019t have SuperSport-only packages<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SuperSport has paid \u00a3296 million for the 2016-19 Barclays Premier League broadcast rights in sub-Saharan Africa, The Mail Online reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":32937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[26,1253,1197],"class_list":["post-108343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-headline","tag-multichoice","tag-supersport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108345,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108343\/revisions\/108345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}