MultiChoice

For the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation's cable television service, see Multi-Choice TV.
MultiChoice Group Ltd.
FormerlyM-Net Subscription services division
Company typePublic
JSE: MCG
IndustryBroadcasting
Pay television
PredecessorM-Net
Founded9 November 1994; 30 years ago (1994-11-09)
HeadquartersFerndale,
Randburg
,
South Africa
Areas served
Sub-Saharan Africa
Cape Verde
Madagascar
ProductsSatellite television
BrandsDStv
GOtv
Showmax (70%)
SuperSport
M-Net
BetKing (49%)
RevenueR$48 bn[1] (2023)
R$7.8 bn (2023)
Total assetsR$14 bn (2023)
OwnerGroupe Canal+
(Vivendi) (45.2%)
Allan Gray (3.95%)
The Vanguard Group (2.58%)
WebsiteMultiChoice website

MultiChoice is a South African company that operates DStv, a major satellite television service in Sub-Saharan Africa, and GOtv, a minor service operating in over nine countries of this area and Showmax service. MultiChoice was formed out of the subscriber-management branch of the M-Net terrestrial pay television company, and broadcasts the full range of M-Net channels on the DStv service. MultiChoice is owned by the media conglomerate of the same name. One of the subsidiaries of MultiChoice is DStv Stream, formally DStv Now then DStv App, a service that delivers television transmission to mobile devices such as laptops, smart phones and notebooks.[2]

Formerly, MultiChoice had operations in the Scandinavian, Benelux, Italy, Eastern Europe, Greek & Cypriot regions under the Filmnet TV service, Egypt under CNE (Cable Network of Egypt), Middle East under Gulf TV and Arab Radio and Television Network & Thailand under UBC (United Broadcasting Corporation).

In 2020, MultiChoice had a total subscriber base of 20.1 million viewers throughout Africa, and Naspers asserted that MultiChoice was one of the fastest growing pay-TV operators globally.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ "MultiChoice, results, trading, profit". MultiChoice. 11 November 2023. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  2. ^ "MultiChoice Uses Magic Link Service for Seamless Multimedia Content Delivery Across Social Networks". CISION PR Newswire. 11 November 2010. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference MyBroad was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "MultiChoice to increase investment in local content for DStv". businesstech.co.za. Retrieved 2020-11-12.
  5. ^ "MultiChoice passes 20m subscriber milestone, launches new box with Netflix included". digitaltveurope.com. 13 November 2020. Retrieved 2020-11-13.