SABC gets green light to ask for payment from pay-TV operators
Icasa’s new regulations mean a fee can be negotiated with operators such as MultiChoice
03 April 2022 - 17:07
SA’s communications regulator has given the SABC the green light to start negotiating carriage fees with pay-TV operators, which have since 2008 been permitted to carry the public broadcaster’s free-to-air channels for free.
Last week the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) gazetted new regulations on the so-called must-carry rules, stating that the public broadcaster must still offer its television programmes to pay TV operators, but subject to commercially negotiable terms...
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