Yesterday was an interesting day in Namibia. All of a sudden, DSTV-based Namibian viewers who watch NBC content via channel 283 ended up with black on air after conduit owners pulled the plug just before the world's beautiful game kicked off.
Although some could still migrate to super sport channels as an option, even though they might have wanted to follow the world's beautiful games through local analysis, the black out on the same platform affected the entire content including the news bulletins which are usually popular amongt the viewers.
The National Broadcaster, after realing this incident had to sent out an urgent message by running a continuous crawl to apologize to the affected viewers for the incovenience caused. The viewers who usually watched NBC via analogue and now through digital TV were however not affected. The NBC leadership had to work hard behind the scenes and today, the signal on 283 was finally restored.
This post is aimed at basically sharing with the following of this platform of what happened, but it will not go into the nitty grities as to what actually caused this hiccup. That information can be deliberated on once they are clear as at the moment, there are various issues that are being mentioned which need to be verified with both the DSTV owners and the NBC.
It is understood that DSTV has also pulled the plug in some countries like Mozambique and Zambia - the author of this post could however not verify this fact with the aunthentic sources, but picked this up from facebook posts as the Namibian situation attracted input on social media.
Now that the signal has been restored on NBC's DSTV Channel 283 - just enjoy all your 64 matches on NBC - LIVE on your national broadcaster. Don't miss out on the local point of view input and analysis on these games. Plus, the NBC is having a number of competitions airing during this time of the world cup. One of them is the give-away of a 42 LCD HD flat screen TV's which can also double up as computers. All that a person has to do is to SMS the world FIFA to 5005 and you can be the lucky winner. The SMS costs N$5.00.
Other SMS competitions are also lined up - and all you have to do is to watch NBC.
The NBC has so much in store for you - just make it a point to remain with the National Broadcaster after the world cup as there some exciting programmes lined up for you.
NBC is ours!
Although some could still migrate to super sport channels as an option, even though they might have wanted to follow the world's beautiful games through local analysis, the black out on the same platform affected the entire content including the news bulletins which are usually popular amongt the viewers.
The National Broadcaster, after realing this incident had to sent out an urgent message by running a continuous crawl to apologize to the affected viewers for the incovenience caused. The viewers who usually watched NBC via analogue and now through digital TV were however not affected. The NBC leadership had to work hard behind the scenes and today, the signal on 283 was finally restored.
This post is aimed at basically sharing with the following of this platform of what happened, but it will not go into the nitty grities as to what actually caused this hiccup. That information can be deliberated on once they are clear as at the moment, there are various issues that are being mentioned which need to be verified with both the DSTV owners and the NBC.
It is understood that DSTV has also pulled the plug in some countries like Mozambique and Zambia - the author of this post could however not verify this fact with the aunthentic sources, but picked this up from facebook posts as the Namibian situation attracted input on social media.
Now that the signal has been restored on NBC's DSTV Channel 283 - just enjoy all your 64 matches on NBC - LIVE on your national broadcaster. Don't miss out on the local point of view input and analysis on these games. Plus, the NBC is having a number of competitions airing during this time of the world cup. One of them is the give-away of a 42 LCD HD flat screen TV's which can also double up as computers. All that a person has to do is to SMS the world FIFA to 5005 and you can be the lucky winner. The SMS costs N$5.00.
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| Menesia Muinjo - the author of this post on NBC TV at the launch of the NBC 2014 World Cup launch, which was a hit.. |
Other SMS competitions are also lined up - and all you have to do is to watch NBC.
The NBC has so much in store for you - just make it a point to remain with the National Broadcaster after the world cup as there some exciting programmes lined up for you.
NBC is ours!
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