Clean bill of health for Sentech
13 November 2013
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State-owned signal broadcaster Sentech’s most recent audit gave it a clean bill of health, giving credence to the company’s statement of commitment to clean up its administration and corporate governance. The clean audit (Sentech’s first such in over a decade) for the 2012/13 financial year was certified by independent external auditors.
One of the company’s objectives for the year was to achieve 80% population coverage of the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) network, a target it narrowly exceeded by reaching 80,4% population coverage four days before the end of the financial year. Moving forward, the company says it is confident that the entire network migration programme will be completed by the end of March 2014.
During the period, Sentech also delivered global signal contribution and distribution services to CAF for the AFCON 2013 tournament from each of the tournament venues. These services were reportedly delivered with 100% availability throughout the event and, according to the AFCON 2013 Local Organising Committee (LOC), almost a billion people globally were able to watch the games.
All this contributed to a bottom line of R831 in revenue – a 7% increase – from continuing operations (excluding dual illumination); a 20% boost in operating profit to R177 million; and improved cash generated from operations, up from R277 million to R299 million. R457 million was spent on additions to property, plant and equipment in 2013 for DTT and other projects.
Other milestones reached during the period included the following:
* 18 new low power/low cost (LP/LC) sites were installed against a target of 18 and 28 self help sites were upgraded against the same target.
* The BEE target of 50% was exceeded by 6%, attaining 56% of total infrastructure spent on BEE level 4 and above. The company now has a BBBEE rating of level 4, with 65 points.
* A target of 1% was met with regards to the percentage of total infrastructure spent on qualifying SMMEs and exempted micro enterprises as defined in the DTI Codes of Good Practice.
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