{"id":11028,"date":"2022-10-20T09:03:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T09:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/?p=11028"},"modified":"2022-10-22T11:55:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T11:55:41","slug":"17-amazing-stats-and-facts-about-dstv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/stats-facts\/17-amazing-stats-and-facts-about-dstv\/","title":{"rendered":"17 Amazing stats and Facts about DStv"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"DStv-17<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

1. About DStv<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DStv (Digital Satellite Television is a sub-Saharan African\nvideo entertainment company owned by MultiChoice. Customers across the\ncontinent can access it via satellite, online, and mobile apps. It was launched\nin 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Launched on<\/strong>:  6 October 1995<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Headquarters<\/strong> in  Randburg, South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Industry:<\/strong> Pay Television<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. CEO:<\/strong>  Calvo Mawela<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. Area served:<\/strong> South Africa and Nigeria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. Products:<\/strong> Direct Broadcast Satellite, IPTV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. Owned by<\/strong> Multichoice with a 79.9% stake and Canal+ with 20.1%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. Services:<\/strong> Cable Television and Streaming Television<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mobile<\/figure><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

10. DStv<\/strong> previously operated in Thailand<\/strong> under United Broadcasting Corporation (UBC), which is now known as TrueVisions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11.<\/strong> A number of channels were launched with the network’s launch, including M-Net, MGM, TNT, Sci-Fi Universal, SuperSport, ESPN, Cartoon Network, BBC World News, CNN International, and Sky News. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

12. DStv BoxOffice<\/strong> (a film\/movie rental\/on-demand service) and DStv Mobile<\/strong> were introduced in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13.<\/strong> DStv airs more than 200 television channels and radio stations<\/strong>. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the channels differ from region to region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14. Packages:<\/strong> In addition to five or six bouquets\/packages<\/strong> with different price ranges, there are four add-on packages<\/strong> for premium film and series channels, as well as Indian, Portuguese, and French channels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15. DStv App: <\/strong>It offers an app\u00a0for\u00a0mobile<\/strong><\/a> phone\u00a0and\u00a0tablet\u00a0devices, along with a PC to control\u00a0DVRs\u00a0and\u00a0parental controls\u00a0and allow access to recorded content and\u00a0video-on-demand\u00a0services. The app was previously known as\u00a0DStv Mobile<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0until 2016 and\u00a0DStv Now<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0up to 2020.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16. Setup Box Manufacturer:<\/strong>   The set-top boxes manufactured for DStv are made by Altech UEC, Arris International (for South Africa only), and Skyworth (for the rest of the continent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Sales<\/figure><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

17. Award:<\/strong> DStv Explora receives the Most Innovative Product of the Year award IN 2015. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. About DStv DStv (Digital Satellite Television is a sub-Saharan African video entertainment company owned by MultiChoice. Customers across the continent can access it via satellite, online, and mobile apps. It was launched in 1995. 2. Launched on:  6 October 1995 3. Headquarters in  Randburg, South Africa. 4. Industry: Pay Television […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":11029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[1497,1496,1498,188],"class_list":["post-11028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stats-facts","tag-digitalsatellitetelevision","tag-dstv","tag-southafricanvideoentertainment","tag-statsandfacts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11028"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11053,"href":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11028\/revisions\/11053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}