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The licence fee in South Africa is R265 (about €23) per annum (R312 per year if paid on a monthly basis) for television. [77] A concessionary rate of R70 is available for those over 70, disabled persons and war veterans who are on social welfare.
In South Africa, the first radio and television broadcasts were done in 1923 and 1976 respectively. The first Broadcasting Act was promulgated in 1936 and it established the South African Broadcasting Corporation solely for radio broadcasting. In 1976, the Broadcasting Act was amended to include television broadcasting.
TVSA - The South African TV Authority; NEW TV STATION TO OPEN IN 1976 IN SOUTH AFRICA, AP Archive, 5 May 1975; First official TV broadcast in South Africa in 1976; Sentech's VIVID Free to Air satellite TV in South Africa. Archived from the original on 6 August 2011. Cape Town TV; Strong Technologies l.l.c. My TV Africa
On 20 October 2020, SABC and the government were in discussion to get TV and streaming providers in South Africa to collect TV licence on their behalf. [22] On 27 March 2021, SABC and eMedia Investments expanded their partnership which allowed OpenView customers to receive 3 additional channels as well as their 19 radio stations. [23]
This second division became MultiChoice. The company had been granted a licence to broadcast into Namibia in 1991 and, as a result, in 1996 MultiChoice Africa was established. [8] In 1992, analogue services were launched in 20 African countries and lasted until 1996 when digital services replaced them.
e.tv (commonly referred to on-air as e) is the first and only privately owned free-to-air television station in South Africa.It is the fifth terrestrial television channel in the country, following three channels that are operated by the state-owned South African Broadcasting Corporation (that is SABC 1, SABC 2 and SABC 3) and the privately owned subscription-funded M-Net.
M-Net Essentials, [a] branded on-air as Me, was a South African pay television channel originally launched by M-Net on 9 July 2013 as M-Net Series Zone, one of three channels from the parent M-Net Series channel. It rebranded as M-Net City in 2015 and as Me in 2021, the latter from a merger with Vuzu.
Later that year, they were granted the license along with the already-operating MultiChoice Africa, Telkom SA's media branch Telkom Media, Christian channel Walk on Water, and Digital Media. However, e. Sat TV was the first to give up and said the South African market was only big enough for two operators.