This is probably not an offence in Nigeria, but the country needs a similar action.


Africa’s leading pay-tv operator, DStv, has been ordered to discontinue airing some movies/contents by Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after a customer complained about manipulative advertising.
Alison Job told the advertising watchdog that the brand new series of ‘Doc Martin’ was a recycled content. So also was the US sitcom “Mom” movie branded as new by DStv.

The Multichoice Company stated that the “Mom” had been previously aired on M-Net, and the promotion was only announcing its Comedy Central‚ where it is featuring for the first time.

However, to many viewers and subscribers without a Premium Dstv package it was indeed “brand new”.

The Judgment against DStv
According to the ASA in its rulings, the agency stated the ‘Mom’, being branded as new, is actually “an old content that is being repeated for the umpteenth time”.

Multichoice explains reasons for repeats of programs
Multichoice explains reasons for repeats of programs (Multichoice)
“One would not expect the label ‘brand new’ to be applied to a show that has been available in South Africa since 2013,” the watchdog agency remarked.

“In the second place‚ the claim makes no reference to the channel. The words ‘only on [Comedy Central]’ further aggravate the matter. By making this statement the implication is that this is the only channel to ever air this ‘brand new’ season.

“In fact‚ these old seasons have been aired on at least one other channel‚ if not more. They are also‚ most likely‚ available as DVDs.”

The ASA ordered DStv to withdraw the claim that “Mom” was new.

Repeating and promoting old content is one offence of DStv across Africa
High frequency of promoting and airing repeated content has been one offence many subscribers of DStv or GOtv – both operated by Multichoice, can easily relate with.

Subscribers in Nigeria have taken to social media many times to complain about this practice and less value for money being paid to the company.

Some of the new movies/contents have been previously aired.
Some of the new movies/contents have been previously aired. (Multichoice)
A Zambian subscriber, Solomon Kimmie, wrote a letter to Multichoice in 2016 and he raised the issue of programs rerun/repeats as a major practice of DStv/GOtv in the country.

“My name is Solomon Kimmie using DSTV account number 4273582861. Kindly look into my complaint laid against DSTV/ Multichoice Zambia with regards to their services/ content to its Zambian subscribers.”

“…Not forgetting the fact that we pay for repeats. We are subjected to reruns/repeats. I carried out my own brief channel survey. Each channel has no less than 2 repeats per day x 30 days. WOW is staggering. They must be making a massively save venture with the repeats. Again if we had to analyze each channel with the number of repeats, definitely get a shock. Mind you these repeats can go on for months.”

The company also agreed to this engaging in this act during a press conference held in Cape Town on December 6, 2016. The General Manager, Content for MultiChoice - Aletta Alberts, said: "We want to say to customers we've heard you and we are making changes."

“It's not like repeats will go away but in general we are improving our product dramatically. One of the key issues over the years is that repeats have been at the forefront of our challenges.”



https://amp.pulse.ng/bi/tech/tech-south-african-agency-penalizes-dstv-for-promoting-repeats-as-new-movies-id7692281.html

While their Nigerian counterpart NCC would have asked Nigerians to pay more for such 'Quality Services'.

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While their Nigerian counterpart NCC would have asked Nigerians to pay more for such 'Quality Services'.

You are right. They will tell us how it is only in Nigeria we want "new and quality movies" cheaply

In my country Nobody cares, you pay as much as #5000 per month for unused light No authority to question Distribution companies.