Following the announcement that local streamer Showmax is shutting down, the group has announced the final closing date for the service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the group, 31 March will be the final date to renew their subscriptions or redeem vouchers, with no such options or new subscriptions available from 1 April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Subscribers can keep watching as usual until their subscription ends, or until the end of April 2026<\/strong>, whichever comes first, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The service said that key shows and Showmax originals will be transferred over to the DStv Stream platform over the next few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A dedicated Showmax section will be created in the DStv Stream app, where this content will reside for the time being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Showmax content on DStv will be available to Compact (from R299 pm) and Premium (from R699 pm) satellite and streaming-only customers via the DStv Stream app. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It appears that standalone Showmax customers will have to choose between paying more for DStv Compact or cancelling their subscription.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, the group said that more updates will follow to explain how current subscribers can keep watching their favourite shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At its recent financial reporting presentation, the new Multichoice owner, Canal+ CEO Maxime Saada, said the company will bring its over-the-top platform, the Canal+ app, to South Africa to replace Showmax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No concrete plans for this have yet been unveiled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More broadly, though, Canal+ is implementing a R1.9 billion “boost plan\u201d for the struggling South African operations, which includes revisions to content, pricing structures and offering voluntary severance to certain employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The French media giant has flagged deteriorating fundamentals in Multichoice’s operations, including declining subscriber numbers and a difficult transition to OTT, marked by the “expensive failure” of Showmax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Canal+ believes it can turn this around by streamlining Multichoice and DStv packages and shifting the business from production to sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To achieve this, it is willing to pump hundreds of millions of rands into building a massive sales team and marketing a more focused brand and identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Following the announcement that local streamer Showmax is shutting down, the group has announced the final closing date for the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":694827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[6633,78,25045,10293],"class_list":["post-854391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-canal","tag-dstv","tag-mulitchoice","tag-showmax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854391","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=854391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854397,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854391\/revisions\/854397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}