[kictanet] The battle for control of Kenyan Digital airspace

[Mark Mwangi]

The problem is that the Business/Marketing heads are controlling the
technical heads.

As an example EBRU Africa TV has awesome programming and I would rater
watch it on a lazy day than watch the big 3. Once they (EBRU) are
accessible allover the country the market share of the dominant will
plummet. This is from a non scientific study conducted on my Parents
upcountry when we bought them a digital ready TV. There is simply more
choice and you don't have to watch Papa Shirandula if there is a wildlife
documentary on another channel.

As I understand it the Settop boxes being ordered by the 3 companies will
carry exactly 4 signals. Why you would buy that and ignore the Signet and
PANG channels makes no sense for a household. Even if they withdraw their
sinals from PANG and Signet, would you happily keep watching 4 stations
when you can get loads more for free??

I think the technology caught them totally flat footed (even if they had 10
years to get in line)




On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Mouz via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> The comedy continues!
>
> *Court **mutes** ‘defamatory’ adverts against **GOtv*
>
>
> http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/business/2015/01/court-mutes-defamatory-adverts-against-gotv/
>
> ./mouz
> On Jan 20, 2015 5:06 PM, "Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet" <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> Some madness is brewing in the battle to control the Kenyan digital
>> airspace. The following advert has been running after every 30 minutes in
>> all the 4 TV stations:
>>
>>
>> "Viewers do not be duped into purchasing GOTv and StarTimes pay TV
>> set-top boxes as a means to access and watch Citizen TV, NTV, QTV, and KTN
>> ... We are finding ways to stop this infringement of copyright, we are soon
>> launching our own set-top boxes to distribute our free to air channels".
>>
>> My questions are these:
>> 1. Do we need multiple set top boxes to watch content from the three
>> different consortium?
>> 2. Is it illegal to watch Citizen TV, NTV, and KTN using non-branded top
>> boxes, or even GOTv and Startimes?
>> 3. Is it that the 3 media houses have seen there is no way they will be
>> able to sell the one million set top boxes they have purchased thus they
>> want to offload electric waste to innocent Kenyan viewers?
>> 4. Is there any Kenya willing to buy a set-top box with only 4 stations?
>> 5. What is the stand of CA on this?
>>
>>
>> Does it matter if I watch the TV using LG, Samsung, Sanyo, Greatwall,
>> Panasonic, Sony ... because the Set-top box technology is just an extension
>> of the TV, and anybody with a build in DVBT2 TV set will be able to watch
>> this content without a set-top box anyway.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> ______________________
>> Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya
>>
>> "There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on
>> higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson
>>
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Regards,

Mark Mwangi

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