RTVE, the Spanish public broadcaster, has allocated a €4.6 million budget to reshape and personalise its OTT service RTVE Play. The broadcaster says it will rely on original productions to expand the service, improve its free registration wall and search engine, and deploy a new CDP – software that stores customers data – to analyse […]

Slovenia’s Agency for Communication Networks and Services has announced the shutdown of DVB-T multiplex C as of February1st. Launched in 2013 and operated by public broadcaster RTV Slovenija as the network operator, multiplex C was intended for the distribution of commercial TV channels. This decision follows the withdrawal of pay-TV channels and declining demand, leaving […]

South Africa’s public broadcaster SABC is out of cash, and the government has presented a new SABC Bill which proposes examining the existing licence fee, which is widely ignored. The new Bill aims to “regulate the continued existence of the SABC to provide public broadcasting services that contribute to democracy, development of society, gender equality, […]

SABC, South Africa’s public broadcaster – currently in serious debt – has hired Nomsa Chabeli, the former General Manager of telco MTN as its new CEO. Chabeli was also previously marketing director of MultiChoice’s SuperSport and DStv divisions. SABC stated: “[Chabeli] also has a credible history of developing persuasive and highly influential brand messaging that […]

Sian Doyle, the fired chief executive of Welsh-language public broadcaster S4C, has criticised her dismissal by chairman Rhodri Williams as “an unprecedented lack of governance for a public body”. Doyle was sacked following an investigation into allegations of “bullying and a toxic culture” at the channel. Doyle released a statement on November 24th in which […]

Italian TV tower company Rai Way has reported a 24 per cent increase in net profit for the first nine months of 2023, to €69.8 million, as a result of higher revenue and lower costs. Core revenues were up 10.7 per cent on an annual basis to €204.1 million, of which €172.6 million attributable to […]

South Africa’s deputy communications minister Philly Mapulane has told the country’s parliament that public broadcaster SABC is not only technically insolvent but owes broadcasting transmission distributor Sentech more than Rand 700 million (about $35.5m) – around half of Sentech’s annual revenue. SABC presented its financial plan to government for 2023-2024 on November 7th. The presentation […]

South Africa’s public broadcaster SABC is suffering a massive shortfall in funding because of unpaid TV licences. The country is looking at a new funding model for SABC. A question was raised in the South African parliament as to how much is owed to SABC. The country’s communications minister Mondli Gungubele responded saying that there […]