{"id":98904,"date":"2015-09-20T09:32:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T07:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=98904"},"modified":"2015-09-20T09:32:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T07:32:59","slug":"starsat-plans-to-retrench-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/98904\/starsat-plans-to-retrench-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"StarSat plans to retrench staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>StarSat, formerly\u00a0TopTV, will retrench staff \u2013 following the handing out of section 189 notices to employees. This is according to a report in the Sunday Times.<\/p>\n<p>The pay-TV operator said \u201cdifficult economic circumstances\u201d are affecting its operations, and various methods to cut costs and increase revenue have been considered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stage has now been reached where other, more drastic measures have to be considered, which will mean that some people will be affected,\u201d said StarSat CEO Mike Dearham in a company letter.<\/p>\n<p>Dearham said the board was investigating possible solutions, but StarSat needed to \u201cstabilise the financial position\u201d of the business.<\/p>\n<p>News of the retrenchments follows StarSat\u2019s parent company On Digital Media going into business rescue in 2012, and an application to Icasa by the company for its network licence to be transferred to StarTimes Media SA.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling is expected to be made by the end of September.<\/p>\n<p><em>The full report is available in the Sunday Times \u2013 20 September 2015 edition.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on StarSat<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Porn channels aired illegally in SA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/84993\/porn-channels-aired-illegally-in-sa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Porn channels aired illegally in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Top TV fights for porn amid subscriber slump\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/75390\/top-tv-fights-for-porn-amid-subscriber-slump\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Top TV fights for porn amid subscriber slump<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>StarSat plans to retrench staff, following the handing out of section 189 notices to employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":47109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[25,2156,6942],"class_list":["post-98904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-retrenchments","tag-starsat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98904","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=98904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98908,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98904\/revisions\/98908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}