MultiChoice will appear before the Competition Tribunal to contest a finding that a 2013 agreement with SABC constituted a 'notifiable merger', violating the Competition Act. The deal involved the broadcasting rights of SABC's 24-hour news channel and SABC Encore for five years. The applicants in the case are media house Caxton, lobby group SOS Coalition, and the Media Monitoring Project Benefit Trust. The agreement also included the SABC's agreement to MultiChoice's position on digital migration.
MultiChoice will appear before the Competition Tribunal this Tuesday to contest a finding that a 2013 channel distribution agreement with the SABC constituted a ' notifiable merger '. The Competition Commission has identified this deal, which granted MultiChoice rights to broadcast the SABC 's 24-hour news channel and SABC Encore for five years, as a violation of the Competition Act due to the lack of notification to the commission about the merger.
The applicants in the case – media house Caxton, lobby group SOS Coalition, and the Media Monitoring Project Benefit Trust – first approached the Competition Commission in 2015. The deal also saw the SABC agreeing to MultiChoice's position on digital migration, which was that the set-top boxes used for digital signal reception should not be encrypted. eMedia, a satellite TV competitor to MultiChoice, won a supreme court of appeal ruling in 2016 that mandated encryption for government-subsidized set-top boxes, arguing that unencrypted signals could easily be pirated, making it harder for free-to-air broadcasters to secure high-quality content rights
Multichoice SABC Competition Tribunal Notifiable Merger Digital Migration Encryption
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