Showmax was an "expensive failure," said Canal+, which owns 70% of the venture. NBCUniversal staffers were informed about the cuts on Wednesday.

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Canal+'s announcement that it's pulling the plug on MultiChoice's Showmax has upset Africa's creatives and content producers.

For more than a decade, MultiChoice Group tried to build a streaming powerhouse designed specifically for African audiences.

MultiChoice has announced it will discontinue its flagship streaming service, Showmax, following a comprehensive review of its digital operations.

In the year to April 2025, for every R99 in subscription fees a Showmax subscriber paid for the service, the venture with NBCUniversal (a division of Comcast) was losing R650. MultiChoice pinned its ...

The announcement by MultiChoice that it will soon shut down its Showmax video streaming service has shocked subscribers and sparked concerns about the future of local content production.

The decision reflects a focus on "financial discipline and investment optimization in an increasingly competitive and capital-intensive global streaming environment." ...

EFF statement on discontinuation of digital streaming platform Showmax by Multichoice. 5 March 2026. The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) expresses its concern regarding the decisi ...

MultiChoice shuts showmax amid global streaming challenges. MultiChoice, part of Canal+ SA, has announced it will discontinue Showmax after a strategic review found the streaming ...

Showmax launched in August 2015 as MultiChoice's answer to the growing wave of international streamers — Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, etc. — that were slowly eating into its pay-TV subscriber base ...