{"id":30007,"date":"2013-01-16T16:06:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T14:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=30007"},"modified":"2013-01-16T16:07:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T14:07:26","slug":"e-tv-the-doc-is-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/30007\/e-tv-the-doc-is-lying\/","title":{"rendered":"E-tv: the DoC is lying"},"content":{"rendered":"

E-tv has called out the South African Ministry of Communications for lying in its recent media statement regarding the potential delays to SA\u2019s migration to digital terrestrial television (DTT) could face.<\/p>\n

According to e-tv, the Ministry created two false impressions in its release:<\/p>\n

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  1. That free-to-air broadcasters are responsible for the delays on DTT; and<\/li>\n
  2. That the Ministry has arranged meetings to resolve the issue.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    e-tv said that the Ministry\u2019s media statement “misrepresent[s] the nature of the ruling”, as the free-to-air broadcasters could put the DTT process back on track with immediate effect.<\/p>\n

    However, this would require that the Ministry abide by the ruling of the South Gauteng High Court made in favour of e-tv in a case it brought against Minister of Communication Dina Pule regarding the set-top box (STB) control system, e-tv said.<\/p>\n

    e-tv explained that the high court ruled that the free-to-air broadcasters, such as the SABC and e-tv, have the right to decide on the STB control system for DTT.<\/p>\n

    \"Dina

    Dina Pule and Stella Ndabeni<\/p><\/div>\n

    Among other things, STB control is expected to prevent the use of the decoder-like set-top boxes subsidised by the South African government outside the country.<\/p>\n

    \u201cMuch has been made of meetings arranged by the Ministry with broadcasters to \u2018resolve\u2019 the issue,\u201d e-tv continued.<\/p>\n

    \u201cThis is untrue as the Ministry has used these meetings merely to restate its original position (which the court ruled against).\u201d<\/p>\n

    e-tv went on to say that several solutions proposed by e-tv both during and after litigation (including the meeting this week about which the Ministry issued a press statement) have not been taken into account by the Ministry.<\/p>\n

    The broadcaster believes that its solutions would allay many of the Ministry\u2019s concerns.<\/p>\n

    \u201ce-tv hopes that the solutions which will be presented to the Ministry by the SABC and e-tv will be taken seriously so that the process can get back on track without further litigation and inevitable delays,\u201d e-tv said.<\/p>\n

    This article was first published on MyBroadband<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

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