The longrunning Morning Live, usually broadcast between 06:00 and 08:00 on weekdays on SABC2 will be extending its broadcast by another 2 hours - effectively doubling its usual timeslot - tomorrow and Thursday (see Thursday UPDATE below). On Wednesday and Thursday (see Thursday UPDATE below) morning Morning Live will go out between 06:00 and 10:00 for 4 hours per day, primarily focusing on the election on Wednesday and results information and analysis on Thursday.
Since yesterday (Monday) Morning Live is originating from the IEC's Pretoria Election Centre where Morning Live has a specially-built studio. The news is still done from the SABC's Auckland Park headquarters with news reader Desiree Chauke when Morning Live crosses over back to its usual studio.
UPDATE Tuesday 17 May 15:00 - SABC2 just decided to extend Morning Live's broadcast hours on Thursday 19 May even further to 5 hours. Morning Live this Thursday will now be starting at 05:00 to 10:00, instead of at 06:00.
SABC2 also just decided to dump its entire Thursday night schedule. The half hour Afrikaans Nuus om 7 and the Sotho news bulletin will both collapse to be combined into one half hour bulletin at 19:00 on Thursday. From 19:30 on Thursday night SABC2 will now have continuous live election results coverage. SABC2 says its Thursday night election results broadcast will carry on from 19:30 to 05:00 on Friday morning 20 May right through the night.
