In the light of the Xenophobic attack on Nigerians living and plying their trade in South African, DSTV has to be legally crippled in the country. The man stay of the cable TV in the country is the premiership, other programs have alternatives but the premiership and other footballing events are the main ones that holds many Nigerians by the jugular.
It was the premiership that keep HiTV alive for the few years it was able to stay, as soon as that right was lost, they just faded away.