Hitv Bans Unauthorized Public Viewing Of Premier League & Other Matches.

HiTV has banned unauthorized public screening of Barclay's Premier League matches, UEFA champions league & other sports content owned by HiTV at viewing centres, restaurants, clubs, bars, hotels & other public places is an act of piracy & a criminal offence unless you subscribe for the new commercial bouquet which gives you the right to screen these sports content legally,

DSTV was not hard like this when they were showing this sport,why is HiTV making things hard on Nigerians?.

Supported. I think they should think about introducing dual view decoders as yesterday was a near nightmare for centres with only one decoder who had to choose to air either the Arsenal or the Chelsea game.

Good question. . .I heard the story but never bothered to confirm

@Poster
Just wondering!
how will they enforce this ban???

As for source, it's in the Guardian. Commercial viewing centres will pay 20k per month while hotels pay 1200 per room. Wow. A friend of mine owns a viewing centre. I doubt they can cope with that. I see this as kinda outrageous.

They just need to send policemen to about 20 popular viewing centres this Saturday.
It's the Nigerian way.

It's the same everywhere . . . in the UK, I was surprised to learn that even Fitness gyms had to pay to show EPL matches
They don't get these rights for free you know?? Why should one man sit there and just make money off them??

Nigerian loves freebies, I can't blame them even the Governor of each state queue up in Abuja monthly to collect allocations. Just pay up or u F off, it is people like you that complain most about lack of infrastructure. If you want good things you need to pay.

It will never work!

The next round of bidding for the EPL is in a few months. I hope DSTV will win it this time. I have HITV and I do not go to viewing centers but it is obvious that this draconian measure will put many VC operators out of business.

But is 20k that much for VC? why are businessmen so greedy?

All you have to do is start selling membership tickets- like season tickets
and Introduce Executive Couch-Fine Kangaroo leather, Reclinable seats, Complimentary Prawn sandwich
Infact hire a masseuse for you viewing centre, you will never go out of business 

I wonder oh!

To the majority of nigerians satellite t.v is a luxury item and many can barely afford hitv. This means dstv would be out of their price range.

expensive abi na cheap abi na prohibitive?

My guy lets talk content please. I am a football fan but find it absurd to pay 6k for HITV which is just football and almost nothing else.

I was part of those that were annoyed with the pricing of DSTV but now that we have HITV , I do not think DSTV is expensve when you consider the number of channels and overall content. Then we thought these SA guys were ripping us off , but the one wey our niger  guys (HITV) dey do na im bad pass.

The truth is if HITV can so upgrade its content that one can completely dump DSTV , then its okay. But as is I do not see why I will dump DSTV for HITV . Na only football person go dey watch?

At a time like this when uncertainty looms in the the country's finances I will be stupid to be paying 15k per month for pay tv ALONE.

Let them just revert to 4k then we can talk. truely nigerian ko,truely nigerian ni

Is Hitv now affordable to the majority of Nigerians at 6k per month subscription? With nothing eles to show apart from football?

You have a dstv compact package which is 4,500 with much more content than hitv has only without EPL.

You guys havenet asked why hitv are talking about this crack down all of a sudden. Why didnt they do it last year when the going was good?

Its just because so many of us have refused to pay 6k per month to watch only football and instead have opted to go for richer content on DSTV.

They called up a number of us to find out why we are not subscribing and what we intend doing.
On hearing that most of us would rather go watch at a sportsbar or viewing center, they now decided to impose high  fees on them.

Is it better for them to charge those viewing centers 20k or for them to do what is reasonable and revert to the old fees to get back all their customers and many more customers too?

HITV are about to fail big time. I for one will not subscribe to hitv again even if all the viewing centers are closed down. I will enjoy all the content on dstb till next year when they yank the nonsense off the hi thieves hands

HItv has the sole rights?
How come CTL shows live EPL and UCL matches?