On 6 October, DStv marked 30 years of shaping South Africa’s television landscape, connecting millions of households, and telling stories that have become part of the national conversation. 

When South Africans turned on their televisions in October 1986, M-Net broadcast only a few hours each night as an encrypted analogue channel. Less than a decade later, on 6 October 1995, MultiChoice launched DStv: only the second digital satellite service in the world, and the first outside the US.