Government says 30 September 2022 is the cut-off date for those applying for subsidised digital set-top boxes, as the era of analogue broadcasting draws to a close.
A project that was launched more than five years ago has been mired in controversy, with e.tv and others opposing what they see as an unseemly rush to switch off analogue TV, leaving millions without access to public benefit broadcasting.
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The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) planned to switch off analogue TV by 30 June 2022 in favour of Broadcast Digital Migration (BDM).
The switch-off affects 84 M-Net analogue sites, 163 of 314 SABC analogue sites and eight of 93 e.tv analogue sites, according to a departmental statement in May.
Some 54% of e.tv’s viewers between September 2020 and August 2021 were…
