Sunday, October 10, 2021

SABC2 shows Muvhango in silence on Friday as the South African public broadcaster's TV channels experience a blackout on Saturday and viewers complain about shoddy quality of SABC Sport.


by Thinus Ferreira

Viewers had to watch Friday night's episode of Muvhango on mute after SABC2 broadcast the episode in silence, with the South African public broadcaster that on Saturday said it's TV channels are back on the air after an unexplained blackout, after which viewers slammed SABC Sport for the shoddy broadcast quality of a Bafana Bafana soccer match.

On Friday night viewers watching the Word of Mouth Pictures-produced weeknight soap on SABC2 had to watch Muvhango in silence when the volume disappeared five minutes after the start of the episode. 

The sound was gone for the whole Muvhango episode, without any explanation or apology from SABC2 for the technical mistake and with the entire episode that was shown on mute.

"For some reasons unknown to me, SABC2 just became 'mute' for the whole Muvhango episode," viewer Nxuba Rhudulu said on Twitter on Friday night.

"SABC2, please do something please," asked Geniva Molepo.

On Facebook Matsoko Wa Kgatla said "And we are watching Muvhango without sounds".

On Saturday morning after an unexplained blackout of the SABC's TV channels, the broadcaster said on the Twitter feeds of its SABC1, SABC2 and SABC3 channels that "We apologise for the earlier blackout, however we are back". 

There's not been any explanation for what took the channels off air.

Later on Saturday afternoon, viewers complained about the very poor broadcast quality and the horribly inept standard of commentating of the SABC Sport channel's broadcast of the World Cup qualifier soccer match between South Africa and Ethiopia that took place in the Bahir Dar Stadium.

Many viewer flooded social media like Twitter with complaints on Saturday afternoon who were angry, frustrated and disappointed at the broadcast quality of SABC Sport, pointing out the shocking mistakes made by analysts, and slammed the subpar commentating.
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