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DUNCAN McLEOD: Reality TV’s courthouse cliffhanger
Ten years later, digital migration is still migrating through the wilderness — and in the meantime technology has moved on
27 March 2025 - 05:00
I never thought I’d be writing about South Africa’s digital TV migration project in 2025, more than a decade after it was meant to be completed, but here we are.
Once again, the process of moving the SABC, e.tv and several community broadcasters off ancient analogue systems and onto more modern (but already rapidly dating) digital terrestrial TV technology is back in court...
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