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Showmax is a subscription-based over-the-top video on demand streaming service that launched [2] in South Africa on 19 August 2015. [3] Its majority owner is MultiChoice, which owns 70% of the Showmax group, while American conglomerate NBCUniversal owns 30% in all territories except Nigeria, where NBCUniversal holds an indirect 23.7% stake in the local subsidiary. [4]
The new company would be called MultiChoice Group and would include MultiChoice South Africa, MultiChoice Africa, Showmax Africa, and Irdeto. The listing took place on 27 February 2019, with share code MCG. The share was immediately eligible for inclusion in the JSE Top40, the list of the largest 40 shares by market capitalisation.
MultiChoice, NBCUniversal and Sky have set a new partnership to bring content and technology to streaming customers across MultiChoice’s 50-market footprint in sub-Saharan Africa. MultiChoice ...
That local strategy has clearly struck a chord with African audiences: in 2022, for example, seven of the platform’s 10 most-streamed titles in South Africa, eight of the top 10 in Kenya and ...
Africa Magic, which started off as a single channel of the same name, is a brand owned by M-Net and MultiChoice and now comprises 7 channels. The first Africa Magic channel was launched in July 2003 as a movie channel and over the next decade, the brand expanded to include 6 more channels comprising movies, television shows and general ...
EXCLUSIVE: Showmax content chief Yolisa Phahle has revealed how co-producing with international partners has helped the South Africa-based streamer compete with fierce SVoD competition, as a first ...
The Real Housewives of Durban (abbreviated RHODurban) is a South African reality television series that premiered on 29 January 2021, on Showmax. [1]The show is developed as the 24th international installment of the American The Real Housewives franchise and the second installment of the franchise set in South Africa.
In June 2020, OUTtv signed a distribution deal with MultiChoice's streaming service Showmax in South Africa. [56] In November 2020, OUTtv launched a direct-to-consumer SVOD streaming service in the U.K. and Ireland called FROOTtv. [57]