BREAKING. SABC busy with aggressive sports coverage austerity measures and cutting back on sports coverage production.

The South African public broadcaster (SABC) is aggressively busy cutting back on its sports coverage and sports coverage production with a sports austerity plan - looking to reduce the SABC's sports production expenses by 10%, dr Ben Ngubane, SABC chairperson told parliament's portfolio committee on communications moments ago.

The SABC board is appearing in parliament to give feedback on the SABC's progress with turning around the struggling public broadcaster's financial situation.

''We must implement sport austerity measures,'' dr Ben Ngubane told parliament. ''We have achieved the sport austerity.''

''In sport [coverage] we need as our target for this year to reduce our cost of production by 10% across the board and this relates to the cost of production to produce coverage of sports activities and the deployment of outside broadcasting (OB) fascilities and the resources to cover sports events,'' dr Ben Ngubane said.

He told parliament that ''the cost of sports rights is not something that's within our control because the rights are held by various agencies, so we can't deal with that. Rights is something that's not within our control. For what we can control, we have set targets.''


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