An early Christmas for small SA community

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An early Christmas for small SA community --

Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:49

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OpenView HD, South Africa s new free satellite television provider, has installed 16 of its dishes and decoders into the 16 homes of Kleinvlei, a small community in the Western Cape.

Kleinvlei is situated 75km from Clanwilliam in the isolated TraTra Valley on the border of the Cederberg mountain range and has no terrestrial or cellphone reception. Before the installation, the typical television viewing experience for Kleinvlei residents was a snowy screen with limited channel offerings.

Maxwell Nonge, MD of OpenView HD, says, OpenView HD offers South Africans living in areas where television reception is poor access to free satellite television with 15 channels in crystal clear quality. It is our aim to provide all South Africans access to a free multichannel television offering. With the installation of the OpenView HD decoders, we re offering the Kleinvlei community so much more choice.

Due to the installation initiative, the people of Kleinvlei now have access to educational and newsworthy content. For a predominantly Afrikaans-speaking community such as Kleinvlei, OpenView HD features Afrikaans-language channel ASTV, broadcasting on channel 151, to keep them entertained and informed in their own language, adds Nonge.

Resident Johanna Swart comments that she spends her evenings watching her favourite programmes on OpenView HD. I look forward to coming home and catching up with my favourite stories on TV, especially the daily evening news and my cooking shows. I enjoy Kom Braai and watch a bit of Diere Maniere. It is much better if I view these programmes in my mother tongue, as I get to practise what I see!

Remarks M.A. Koopman, another Kleinvlei resident: I would like to express my great appreciation for the dish and decoder you installed for me as a gift. You will never be forgotten and every time I turn on my TV I will think of you with a grateful heart.

Platco Digital s free-to-air satellite TV platform, OpenView HD, offers entertainment, culture and lifestyle, children and education, and religious programming. Aimed at family viewing, the OpenView HD platform requires nothing more than a once-off payment with no monthly subscription fee, forever.

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