It seems MultiChoice is not the only broadcaster that is concerned about the arrival of new subscription broadcaster TopTV — the SABC is too. TopTV’s chief marketing officer, Elouise Kelly, told the ...

Cape Town – On Digital Media's (ODM) TopTV is losing another three TV channels within days as Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) is yanking its Showtime, Silver and Star! channels from the struggling ...

The story of TopTV's chronic failure to capture the South African pay television market has its origins in the failure by the broadcasting regulator, ICASA, to open the subscription television market ...

Cape Town – Pay TV operator TopTV has discontinued two of its channels without providing notice or an adequate explanation to subscribers. Hi Nolly (TopTV 120) and One Music (TopTV 506) have both ...

Cape Town – TopTV will effectively be taken over by China's StarTimes after 99.3% of shareholders and creditors voted in favour of the bail-out of the beleaguered South African pay-TV operator. TopTV ...

The Independent Communications Authority of SA's (ICASA's) decision to grant TopTV permission to air adult content on its pay-TV platform marks a first for SA, and has drawn a vast reaction. Hailed by ...

TOPTV has submitted a second application to broadcast “adult entertainment” on three new TV channels. This application comes after the pay-to-view platform had been under new management to rescue the ...

China's digital pay-TV company StarTimes walked away the winner on Tuesday in the TopTV takeover saga, although at least one of the losing consortiums is considering challenging the legality of the ...

Suggestions that all was not well with TopTV’s financials became more apparent after the pay-TV broadcaster announced yesterday that it had applied for business rescue and was looking for a new equity ...

News of TopTV's supposed sales offering was first published in a newsletter (Media ShopTalk - 24 March 2011) published by media-buying group The MediaShop. The newsletter noted that: "We have received ...

TopTV’s chief marketing officer, Elouise Kelly, told the Mail & Guardian this week that the SABC had refused to flight TopTV advertisements on its television channels because it saw TopTV as ...