Saturday, December 19, 2009

Interesting facts and statistics from the latest SABC financial year report.


You're reading it here first.

I've waded through all the pages of the latest financial year report that the SABC released.

Here's some interesting facts and statistics:
* The SABC added 644 253 new accounts SABC TV licence holders.
* The SABC admits that it's struggling to find expert TV presenters and engineers, and have lost many of them to competitor TV channels.
* The SABC admits that it's struggling to find executive producers and journalists (especially business journalists) who want to work at the public broadcaster.
* The SABC employs 3 524 people on a full time basis.
* Of the people working at the SABC, 63,5% is black, 22,5% white, 8,6% coloured and 5,3% Indian.
* The SABC's head office in Aucklandpark had 36 485 visitors during the year.