South Africa’s Openview free-to-air digital platform says it has now activated more than 1.57 million receivers, and is activating new viewers at the rate of some 35,000 boxes a month.

Openview is majority held (67.7 per cent) by eMedia Holdings, an independent South African broadcaster.

In its annual results eMedia Holdings (to March 31^st) Openview reported that the business is still losing money.  Openview (including the e.tv multi-channel business) earned ad-revenues of Rand 131.8-million and incurred content costs of R255.7 million, up from R173.6 million in 2018, it said.

EMedia also broadcasts e-tv and news channel eNCA. The group ended the year with a profit from continuing operations of R117.6 million, compared to a loss in 2018 of R1.6 billion.

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