Tag: DStv

Ghana DStv Subscriptions Rose in a Year of Pricing Disputes, Piracy, and MultiChoice Ownership Change

Ghana DStv Subscriptions Rise After Pricing Dispute Ghana’s National Communications Authority issued a public statement concerning the dispute between the government and MultiChoice, parent company of DStv, the dominant pay-TV service. Earlier in 2025, the government challenged DStv’s repeated price increases, leading to an eventual restructuring of DStv’s packages on October 1: Ghanaian subscribers continued […]

The Canal+ / MultiChoice Baseline: Content Direction, Production Hubs, and Market Structure After the Takeover

Canal+’s takeover of MultiChoice has created the largest media group operating in Africa — more than 40 million subscribers, nearly 70 countries, and a unified structure linking DStv, Showmax, Canal+ Afrique, myCanal, and GVA’s fibre network. Most early updates focused on ownership, leadership, and infrastructure. What had been missing was a content-level explanation of how […]