{"id":5101,"date":"2012-02-01T09:58:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T09:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=5101"},"modified":"2012-02-01T10:01:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T10:01:15","slug":"toptv-ceo-not-axed-yet-odm-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/5101\/toptv-ceo-not-axed-yet-odm-board\/","title":{"rendered":"TopTV CEO not axed yet – ODM Board"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vino Govender<\/a>, the CEO of On-Digital Media<\/a> (ODM), the parent company of affordable satellite TV network, TopTV<\/a>, has not yet been axed, the group\u2019s board has said in a statement on Wednesday (1 February 2012).<\/p>\n

It follows media speculation that the chief executive was set to leave the broadcaster.<\/p>\n

“The board is in discussion with the CEO on a mutual separation – but those discussions are not concluded yet, until then we will not comment further. The board will issue a statement in due course,” said Eddie Mbalo, chairman of ODM.<\/p>\n

The group recently hit the headlines for plans to launch three new adult channels on its network.<\/p>\n

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa<\/a> (ICASA), however denied TopTV\u2019s application late last month.<\/p>\n

ICASA spokesperson Paseka Maleka said that they will provide that satellite pay-TV broadcaster with reasons for denying their request within the next 30 days.<\/p>\n

Religious groups called for a boycott of the broadcaster; Cosatu appealed to TopTV investor Kopanu ke Matla Investment company to disinvest; and the Film and Publications Board (FPB) said they would oppose TopTV\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n

ODM launched TopTv in May 2010, with the group\u2019s subscriber base swelling to over 200,000 in only seven months.<\/p>\n

ODM launched with seven different pricing options, starting at R99, up to R249 per month, well below DStv’s premium package of R529 per month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vino Govender, the CEO of On-Digital Media (ODM), the parent company of TopTV, has not yet been axed, the group\u2019s board has said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26,36,1215,35,1216],"class_list":["post-5101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-headline","tag-icasa","tag-on-digital-media","tag-toptv","tag-vino-govender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5101"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5110,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101\/revisions\/5110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}