eNCA (DStv 403) remains the uncontested TV news channel leader when it comes to massive audience size and share in South Africa on DStv - pulling in more viewers daily, monthly and during prime time on MultiChoice's satellite pay-TV platform than SABC News (DStv 404) and ANN7 (DStv 405), in fact, raking in a bigger audience share than all of the other TV news channels on DStv combined.
At the other end of the spectrum is the little watched CNBC Africa (DStv 410) - probably not a surprise given the complete lack of any type of programming information or scheduling publicity. With nobody really knowing what's showing on CNBC Africa or when, CNBC Africa only gets a paltry 2% audience share.
The audience share figure above is for June 2014 from the Arianna system, measuring Monday to Sunday, from 06:00 to 23:00, showing that eNCA far outranks all of the other TV news channels in South Africa when it comes to viewers, share, and where people prefer to watch their 24-hour TV news.
In a distant second place is SABC News (DStv 404) which turned one year old on 1 August with 17% audience share, followed by Sky News (DStv 402) with 11%.
ANN7 (DStv 405) which will turn one year old on 21 August later this month, comes in at 4th place with a small 7% of the total audience, and then CNN International with 6%.
Smaller TV news channels like Al Jazeera, BBC World News and CNBC Africa are barely watched, respectively getting a 4%, 3% and 2% of the total viewing audience.
