{"id":41179,"date":"2013-07-03T09:27:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T07:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=41179"},"modified":"2013-07-03T09:28:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T07:28:07","slug":"sentech-blocks-zim-from-viewing-sabc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/41179\/sentech-blocks-zim-from-viewing-sabc\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentech blocks Zim from viewing SABC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sentech has scrambled SABC&#8217;s television channels in Zimbabwe, Business Day reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The switching-off of the three SABC free-to-air channels meant Zimbabweans now could only view state broadcaster, the Zimbabwean Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC), the paper reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the High Court in Johannesburg had ordered signal carrier Sentech to encrypt the signal last year.<\/p>\n<p>This was after eTV&#8217;s subsidiary eBotswana requested the same court to scramble the signal in 2011, to curb growing broadcast piracy in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Business Day said Sentech could not be reached for comment at the time of going to press.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Sentech and the SABC<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sentech clarifies R584 million misconception\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/35679\/sentech-clarifies-r584-million-misconception\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sentech clarifies R584 million misconception<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to DA requests police investigation into SABC\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/35358\/da-requests-police-investigation-into-sabc\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">DA requests police investigation into SABC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sentech to return spectrum to Icasa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/35176\/sentech-to-return-spectrum-to-icasa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sentech to return spectrum to Icasa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to SABC board can leave valued legacy: DA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/34364\/sabc-board-can-leave-valued-legacy-da\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">SABC board can leave valued legacy: DA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sentech has scrambled SABC&#8217;s television channels in Zimbabwe, Business Day reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":35177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[25,667,1646,5557],"class_list":["post-41179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-active","tag-sabc","tag-sentech","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41179","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41181,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41179\/revisions\/41181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}