South Africa’s conversion to digital terrestrial broadcasting (DTT), the deadline for which has already been postponed from November next year to 2013, may face another hiccup. On 29 March the black-owned Nafcoc (National African Federated Chamber of Commerce) took legal action to prevent Icasa (Independent Communications Authority of South Africa) from allowing the SABC, M-Net and e.tv to broadcast more channels once DTT is commercially launched.
Nafcoc’s objection is its belief that if the incumbent broadcasters are given more channels, it will entrench their monopoly. Among Nafcoc’s membership are TV production companies.
(Source: Sunday Times)
