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Originally published in Dispatch Live Digital satellite TV broadcaster StarSat got more than just a telling off by the broadcasting watchdog for continuing to show pornographic content after a court order forbade it to. The company was fined R25 000 by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) for […]
Originally published in Channel 24 StarSat is being accused of broadcasting two of its porn pay channels for nearly a month without the authorisation to do so, the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of SA heard on Tuesday. Greta Engelbrecht, for Justice Alliance SA (JASA), told the commission that the channels had […]
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has dismissed with costs an application by On Digital Media Media (ODM) for leave to appeal against a Western Cape High Court order preventing it from broadcasting hardcore pornography channels on its StarSat (formerly TopTV) pay-TV service. Justice Alliance of South Africa (JASA), supported by […]
Originally published in IT Web Pay-TV service provider StarSat has taken its fight to broadcast adult content to the Supreme Court of Appeal, after the Western Cape High Court last year ruled the country’s communications regulator had erred in allowing the broadcaster to air hardcore porn channels. The broadcaster submitted […]
Shortly after 10 am today, in the Western Cape High Court, Mr Justice Bozalek, dismissed an application by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) and On Digital Media (ODM) for leave to appeal his ruling on the licensing of three porn pay channels. He ruled that he correctly ordered last […]
On Friday, December 5, Judge Lee Bozalek will hear arguments from TopTV/StarSat and ICASA in their appeal against his ruling that cancelled the license to broadcast hardcore porn on South African TV. The Justice Alliance of South Africa (JASA), Doctors For Life and Cause For Justice will oppose the appeal at […]
Originally published in mybroadband An application for leave to appeal a court ruling on the licensing of three porn pay channels will be heard in the Western Cape High Court next month. The application by On Digital Media (ODM) will be heard by Judge Lee Bozalek on December 5. At […]
In what has been described as a “counter cultural victory”, the Western Cape High Court on Monday, November 3 reviewed and set aside the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s (ICASA) decision to authorise the broadcasting by StarSat (formerly Top TV) of three pay-to-view pornographic channels on South African television, and […]
The Western Cape High Court today (Monday, November 3) ordered StarSat to stop broadcasting pornographic channels with immediate effect. Upholding an application by Justice Alliance for South Africa (JASA), Cause for Justice (CFJ) and Doctors for Life (DFL), Mr Justice Bozalek, struck down the licence granted by the Independent Communications Authority […]
Originally published in Sowetan Live The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) failed to apply the law when it approved three pornographic channels, the Cape Town High Court heard on Monday (October 13). Last April StarSat, formerly known as Top TV, was given the go ahead by Icasa to […]