Siyaya Notified of Award of Television Licence

Motive Television PLC

("Motive" or the "Company")

Siyaya Notified of award of television licence

SA Regulator Icasa advises Siyaya that all requirements satisfied

19 November 2014: Motive Television plc, the digital television technology, software and solutions provider, announces that its 100 per cent owned subsidiary, Motive Television Services Limited ("Motive"), has today been informed by Siyaya Free To Air TV (PTY) Ltd. of Johannesburg, South Africa ("Siyaya") that Siyaya has received an official letter from the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) advising "that Siyaya TV has officially satisfied all the requirements to be issued an Individual Commercial Subscription Broadcasting Service License". According to Siyaya, among the requirements were financial guarantees, research, and corporate structure.

On 1 May 2014, The Company announced the award to Siyaya of one of five provisional licenses to operate a pay television service in South Africa. 

On 30 December 2013, Motive announced the signing of a five-year contract to install, integrate, and operate Siyaya's Video-on-Demand ("VOD") platform in conjunction with the expected launch of Siyaya's television services on the Sentech Freevision DTH satellite service. Motive's income from the contract includes upfront and operating fees and a share of VOD revenues. The contract will provide Motive a guaranteed minimum equivalent to £1.07 million (at current conversion rates) over the next five years, however, as stated in the announcement dated 16 September 2013; the Company estimates the probable value of this project to be approximately £2 million.

Leonard M Fertig, CEO of Motive Television plc, commented, "The finalisation of the broadcasting license to Siyaya is an important step forward for both Siyaya and Motive as the technology partner. We are very pleased with this news."

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Motive Television provides broadcasters and pay television operators with enabling technology that provides opportunities to deliver highly valued services to viewers that generate additional income and retain existing subscribers, comprising:

Content Express™

Today's television viewers are demanding the ability to watch whatever they want when they want it on any screen, and Motive's Content Express™ makes that possible without having to build new networks. Content Express™ software provides secure delivery and management of non-linear digital content across any type of broadcast network to any consumer-facing screen or device. Motive has deployed it in both single and hybrid distribution systems that combine broadband access with traditional distribution for an optimal solution.

Motive's Content Express™ solutions platform provides a one-stop shop for digital terrestrial broadcasters, satellite, DTT cable pay television platforms, and Internet OTT content providers to offer new services including: Video on Demand (VOD and SVOD), Catch-up television, Tablet Television, Targeted advertising for VOD, Mocast for 4G LTE, Virtual channels and Video2Go.

Tablet TV

With a proprietary app and T-Pod antenna-tuner, tablet owners around the globe can watch and record all the programming currently broadcast over digital terrestrial channels. Additionally, Tablet TV subscribers have the ability to download a selection of video-on-demand movies and programmes without the need for Internet access and, when they are connected, use integrated social networking and access anything available over the Internet.

Motive's content division is:

Motive Television Limited, a Dublin-based award-winning independent production company that produces factual programmes for Irish broadcasters. It specializes in live sports production and sports documentaries and also produces factual and entertainment series.

Motive Television was founded in London in 2005 and its shares are quoted on the London Stock Exchange (AIM). http://www.motivetelevision.co.uk