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The BritBox video streaming service is shutting down in South Africa and exiting in August, just three years after it launched. This forms part of the ongoing trend of global streamer operators closing the taps on their money-guzzling video-on-demand plans for the African continent.
BritBox SA, run by BritBox International as a joint venture between BBC Studios and ITV, launched in South Africa in August 2021 as the fifth territory and only African region it expanded to.
Earlier this year, BBC Studios bought out ITV's share and took full ownership of BritBox, also shutting down BritBox as a standalone service in the United Kingdom. BBC Studios runs the existing portfolio of BBC-branded linear TV channels like BBC Brit, BBC Lifestyle, BBC Earth, and CBeebies on MultiChoice's DStv satellite pay-TV service.
