{"id":46305,"date":"2013-09-19T17:34:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T15:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=46305"},"modified":"2013-09-20T12:56:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T10:56:48","slug":"platco-hits-back-at-sabc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/46305\/platco-hits-back-at-sabc\/","title":{"rendered":"Platco hits back at SABC"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenView HD operator Platco Digital<\/a>, a sister company to E-tv<\/a>, has hit back at\u00a0claims by the South African Broadcasting Corporation\u00a0(SABC<\/a>), that it\u00a0does not have permission to include SABC 1, 2, and 3 in its bouquet of channels.<\/p>\n

Platco contends that the SABC cannot prevent it from broadcasting it’s channels, and\u00a0follows an announcement on Wednesday by\u00a0Platco of 16 channels on its free satellite TV platform, including\u00a0the three SABC channels.<\/p>\n

The SABC said that it has no agreement with Platco regarding its channels, and appealed to Platco to \u201cwithdraw its statements and pronouncements immediately\u201d.<\/p>\n

Platco however, retaliated by saying that the SABC as the public broadcaster has various obligations and any attempts to prevent Platco from carrying the SABC channels would be unlawful.<\/p>\n

Platco reaffirmed that OpenView HD will be broadcasting SABC 1, 2, and 3 when it launches.<\/p>\n

“Platco is surprised by the statement issued by the SABC. Platco will be carrying SABC 1, 2 and 3 from the launch date. The SABC as the public broadcaster has various obligations and any attempts by the SABC to prevent Platco from carrying the SABC channels would be unlawful,” the free-to-air operator said in a statement.<\/p>\n

More on the SABC and\u00a0OpenView HD<\/h3>\n

SABC lambastes Platco over \u201cfalse advertising\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Free satellite TV service channels announced<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Platco outlines OpenView channel plans<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Another pay-TV service for South Africa?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Platco Digital signs with Luxembourg satellite firm<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Free satellite TV operator launch date revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OpenView HD operator Platco Digital, a sister company to E-tv, has hit back at claims by the SABC, that it does not have permission to include SABC 1, 2, and 3 in its bouquet of channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":43809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[4294,26,6340,6333,667],"class_list":["post-46305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-e-tv","tag-headline","tag-openview-hd","tag-platco-digital","tag-sabc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46305","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=46305"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46348,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46305\/revisions\/46348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}