{"id":270353,"date":"2018-09-09T08:08:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T06:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=270353"},"modified":"2018-09-09T08:09:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T06:09:21","slug":"multichoice-eyes-job-cuts-as-dstv-struggles-against-netflix-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/270353\/multichoice-eyes-job-cuts-as-dstv-struggles-against-netflix-report\/","title":{"rendered":"MultiChoice eyes job cuts as DStv struggles against Netflix &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice may be forced to shed jobs as DStv continues to battle new entrants into its market, namely Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and other streaming services, according to a report in the Sunday Times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bt\/business-and-economy\/2018-09-08-jobs-on-the-line-as-dstv-struggles\/?&amp;external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The report<\/a> stated that the media institution has asked many employees to reapply for their positions with as many as 200 jobs potentially affected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are creating a leaner and more agile organisation in order to remain globally competitive,\u201d a MultiChoice spokesperson told the Sunday Times.<\/p>\n<p>DStv \u2013 particularly its Premium satellite service \u2013 continues to lose subscribers. At its year-end in March, MultiChoice said it lost 41,000 Premium subscribers in the period.<\/p>\n<p>This is likely due to a difficult economy, and increasing competition, which also led to MultiChoice launching its own streaming service, Showmax in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Lower-tier DStv packages, however, have seen user growth, which generates less revenue.<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice SA CEO Calvo Mawela recently told MyBroadband that Netflix has an unfair advantage over DStv in South Africa, and that a regulatory change is needed to address this problem.<\/p>\n<p>He has called for Netflix to pay taxes in South Africa and abide by local broadcast regulations, which DStv is subject to.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/254335\/netflix-has-an-unfair-advantage-over-dstv-multichoice-ceo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netflix has an unfair advantage over DStv: Multichoice CEO\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice may be forced to shed jobs as DStv continues to battle new entrants into its market, namely Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and other streaming services, according to a report in the Sunday Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[78,26,1253],"class_list":["post-270353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-dstv","tag-headline","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270353","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270359,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270353\/revisions\/270359"}],"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=270353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}