FREE digital satellite TV OpenView HD has grown from strength to strength, with 270000 people already having subscribed to the platform since it was launched a year ago.
OpenView HD is South Africa's first free satellite TV service with 20 channels.
The platform's growth prospects look brighter because its subscribers will now be allowed to use Multichoice's digital services television satellite dish to access OpenView HD.
Maxwell Nonge, the managing director of Platco digital that runs the OpenView service, said the decoders can be used in conjunction with DStv decoders.
"If you have a satellite dish in good working order you just need to buy an OpenView HD decoder.
"A single satellite dish can serve two separate decoders by using a system that features two outputs rather than one and allows satellite television.
They are negotiating with South African Development Community countries to tap into other markets in Africa."
Siyanda Mngomezulu, the TV's channel acquisition executive, said community news would be offered by the satellite as a way of giving a voice to communities.
"We want to give communities a platform to talk openly about issues affecting them.
"These shows will not be funded by municipalities but by money they [the shows] generate from advertising," Mngomezulu said.
She said they would try to persuade government departments to buy slots on their channels.
"If the City of Johannesburg, for instance, wants to communicate the message to residents of Alexandra, it can buy airtime and convey its message," she said at the media round-table on the progress of the OpenView service at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Johannesburg.
Group executive regulatory at e.tv Lara Kantor said the aim of the discussion was for the management to address questions that people had regarding this platform and how it operates.
She said R850 is the once-off payment for installation and the user can enjoy OpenView forever without thinking of paying again.
"There are neither monthly nor contract fees. It is non-stop entertainment," Kantor said.
They plan to expand and launch the brand in one African country before the end of the year.
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Free TV option looking brighter
FREE digital satellite TV OpenView HD has grown from strength to strength, with 270000 people already having subscribed to the platform since it was launched a year ago.
OpenView HD is South Africa's first free satellite TV service with 20 channels.
The platform's growth prospects look brighter because its subscribers will now be allowed to use Multichoice's digital services television satellite dish to access OpenView HD.
Maxwell Nonge, the managing director of Platco digital that runs the OpenView service, said the decoders can be used in conjunction with DStv decoders.
"If you have a satellite dish in good working order you just need to buy an OpenView HD decoder.
"A single satellite dish can serve two separate decoders by using a system that features two outputs rather than one and allows satellite television.
They are negotiating with South African Development Community countries to tap into other markets in Africa."
Siyanda Mngomezulu, the TV's channel acquisition executive, said community news would be offered by the satellite as a way of giving a voice to communities.
"We want to give communities a platform to talk openly about issues affecting them.
"These shows will not be funded by municipalities but by money they [the shows] generate from advertising," Mngomezulu said.
She said they would try to persuade government departments to buy slots on their channels.
"If the City of Johannesburg, for instance, wants to communicate the message to residents of Alexandra, it can buy airtime and convey its message," she said at the media round-table on the progress of the OpenView service at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Johannesburg.
Group executive regulatory at e.tv Lara Kantor said the aim of the discussion was for the management to address questions that people had regarding this platform and how it operates.
She said R850 is the once-off payment for installation and the user can enjoy OpenView forever without thinking of paying again.
"There are neither monthly nor contract fees. It is non-stop entertainment," Kantor said.
They plan to expand and launch the brand in one African country before the end of the year.
For more stories like this one, be sure to buy the Sowetan newspaper from Mondays to Fridays