buzugee:

and besides why are nigerians so silly ? why are they paying these companys who are charging them exorbitant rates ? in britain cable is like 40 pounds and with 40 pounds you get EVERY CHANNEL. there are some packages for 20 pounds a month too. in america i paid 80 dollars for both high speed internet and my cable package which included HBO. so why are these companys in naija charging an arm and a leg when their cost of doing business in naija is minimal ? more importantly why do you guys allow yourselves to be gouged ?
now me, when i move to naija, in my house i will have no tv. just radio, some incense, candles (nepa wont faze me) and a whole library of books in my house. my entertainment will be reading books in an incense scented, candle lit room. now thats heaven. i aint paying no cable or whatever it is yall pay out there.
yall nigerians gotta take it back to basics. i also look at car prices in nigeria and a car that costs 1000 dollars in america will be sold for like 15000 dollars in nigeria. this is outrageous. why are vultures sucking on an already impoverished people ? i find it annoying and irritating. same goes for mobile phone services etc. why do they charge africans 4 times more than they would charge americans and british people ? is it because we have no regulations in place to keep these vultures in check ?

Tatase:

I feel bad for hitv really I do, and hopefully they can bounce back from this.



People keep saying that dstv had 15yrs to grow ok yes but there's alsobeen 15yrs of technology since dstv started, if you want to compete, u have to either scale down your ambitions OR offerr something comparable. I mean it would be nice if in 2010 I could know what was showing when I turn on your service (especially since quite a few channels show some random programs and series with no particular order) without having to unearth my hi magazine (it would also cut costs from the necessity of mailing me the magazine).

I agree that there are some nice Magazine programs on nigezie and hi nolly, however, they are mixed in with so much randomness that you seem to just randomly happen on them. I realize that SuperSport had wc rights but couldn't hitv at least have gotten local rights to just Nigeria matches from them like some local channels did? It is ridiculous to be showing a 2008 epl match when your country is playing wc. Ok what about even something cheap and random like the on-going womens wc or even qualifications for the African womens football championship/womens world cup qualifiers which are just starting, I mean show us something current in the off-season. As for the other sports channels. . . At least show live or ok barest minimum recent athletics meets, not random old IAAF athletics from an undisclosed period where it's December but the sun is blazing high and hot in a Germany or Denmark meet. Show Nigerian athletics tryouts or championships or whatever, support local sports and make it accessible to Nigerian pple. What stops hitv from doing it's own fantasy league for Nigerian sports or something.  Like I said, other than premiership, program quality is not it at all.

On pricing, I feel like they were conducively priced for what they were offering, but in that case, they obviously paid too much for the epl rights to start with.[/b] And knowing this, they should have been raising money to develop more/ better content as opposed to trying to raise money to overpay for the premiership again.



This is a big blow for hitv but it doesn't have to be the end. It might be a blessing in disguise and a good opportunity to step up the rest of their service and grow their brand without the heavy financial burden of the epl.


I agree,u were spot on. But the pricing was too much.

4llerbuntu:


i tire o!! May God Bless you infinitely!!

at least u too can see pple congratulating themselves here on NL for their mumu-ness and ability to be scammed!!

if na MTN dem go lie say na power, shey DSTV that broadcasts from SA and only recently opened studios in nigeria will also tell us that its power that cannot enable them price the thing reasonably?

the point was not that HITV was really doing any major work, it was that it was cheaper. besides at the time HITV came onstream the only unique thing on DSTV was Big Brother and i daresay it was nigeria's love for it that made it what it is today.

it was the starvation that made them rethink and start investing in more content. if not, DSTV would still be the same old thing.

i wouldnt put it past them to further increase the prices. if im not wrong already DSTV Nigeria is the most expensive DTH service in the world. nigerians are so gullible. to some pple here DSTV is doing them a favour.

bottomline is whether DSTV, or HITV or whosoever, those prices should be reasonable. are you telling me nigeria's rights are more expensive than the rights for UK? so with the killing taxes over there its still cheaper to watch the Prem.

i weep for this country. if una like pop champagne. at times sef i wonder where and how u pple actually watch tv so much, in this same country? unless of course you pple are mostly students, i cant imagine paying so much to watch 3 hrs tv every weekend. thank God for sports streaming online. make una dey dash SA una money o!!! even HITV sef, b4 dem see one kobo dem dey try!!!

buzugee:

you have said it all my brother. too many vultures in nigeria. vultures only circle around feeble people waiting for them to die so they can eat them up. you can never get vultures circling around healthy people (western countrys) because they will be fought off. so my advice to nigerians is to pick up a stick and throw it at that vulture circling over your head. chase it away. YALL KNOW WHAT TO DO. but if you wanna be a victim to the vulture because you are trying to keep up with the joneses, then it is ya own funeral

Kx:

Am i getting the wrong signal or something?

Is vulture being used here because dstv is an SA coy? pls educate me.
it is common knowledge,whether 9500 is right pricing or not, that with 9500 in dstv u get over 80 channels, african standard no doubt,
but with 6000 or thereabout, how many channels, whether those channels are of repute or not, do u get in hitv minus repeated epl matches?

when shall we learn to call a spade a spade?
if a non nigerian coy is offering options and varieties with some cost, even if there are issues in pricing,
would u rather patronise a nigerian coy that cares not about whats being offered at almost the same cost comparatively?
Does customer service have any connection with the origin and citizenship of the promoters of the consumer good

temmytanny:

Like i said TIME WILL TELL. whether DSTV or HITV show am , i go stil watch EPL even if them two no show am cos of legal battle. Aljazeera dey wait for me.

cripplswag:

Why do consumers make certain choices in a free market system?

What factors drive the consumers to make these choices?

Why do consumers strive for marginal utility?

What about the theory of indifference curves?

Why would someone decide what goods i spend MY money on, even when there is a close and better substitute?

Would you buy fake drugs or goods because of nationalism burning in your heart, when there is an original substitute even when it is coming from China?

Would you choose Solange, when you can have Beyonce? [size=3pt]^{(wht d f#$k am i thinking?)}[/size]

Jst finking out loud

suprted:

HiTV should have started small.  Check my old posts, I asked why anyone should pay (at the time 3500) for just football.  

Someone above said try going up against a multinational and yet over here your typical Wasim's Kebab Korner type shop does well even though there is McDonald's around the corner.  It's figuring out what works, it's offering services that the other people don't have, it's setting a price-point that allows you to be competitive and yet not bankrupt oneself.  

Had HiTV purchased a percentage of the games instead of full rights then they could have continued to grow, raised their market share slowly, raised their profit margins.  How are they expecting to break even?  to make back the 40 million a season they spent, they'd need 1 million subscribers (going on 150 naira to $1).  And that's without factoring the running costs of a business, the hardware, the staff, marketing etc etc.