{"id":55155,"date":"2014-04-01T08:53:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T06:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=55155"},"modified":"2014-04-01T08:57:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T06:57:42","slug":"naspers-ceo-of-pay-tv-divison-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/55155\/naspers-ceo-of-pay-tv-divison-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Naspers CEO of pay-TV divison steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naspers has announced that CEO of the group&#8217;s pay-TV segment, Eben Greyling, has stepped down from his position, &#8220;to take a break and pursue new interests&#8221; after more than 18 years with the company.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eben has been instrumental in building the group&#8217;s successful pay-TV businesses across the continent. Under his leadership over the last five years the subscriber base and turnover of the pay-TV businesses more than doubled,&#8221; Naspers said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Volkwyn, previous head of the group&#8217;s pay-TV segment, will take over the reins from 1 April 2014, the media and internet group said.<\/p>\n<p>Group chief executive Koos Bekker also steps down in April after 17 years at Naspers and will be replaced by e-commerce chief Bob van Dijk.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Naspers<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Naspers CEO Koos Bekker to step down\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/53492\/naspers-ceo-koos-bekker-to-step-down\/\"><strong>Naspers CEO Koos Bekker to step down<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Naspers officially shuts 5 e-commerce sites\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/53684\/naspers-officially-shutters-5-e-commerce-sites\/\"><strong>Naspers officially shuts 5 e-commerce sites<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Naspers restructures e-commerce business\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/53522\/naspers-restructures-e-commerce-business\/\"><strong>Naspers restructures e-commerce business<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naspers has announced that CEO of the group&#8217;s pay-TV segment, Eben Greyling, CEO has stepped down from his position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[26,2511,107],"class_list":["post-55155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-headline","tag-koos-bekker","tag-naspers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55155","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=55155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55160,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55155\/revisions\/55160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}