BREAKING. SABC boss Hlaudi Motsoeneng: 'If you always report crime, you are encouraging young people to commit crime'.

The SABC's controversial and famously matricless boss Hlaudi Motsoeneng told Waldimar Pelser of kykNET's (DStv 144) actualy show Insig that reporting on crime in South Africa encourages criminals, and encouraging young people to commit crime.

The SABC's embattled Hlaudi Motsoeneng is embroiled in a protracted court battle over his appointment as chief operating officer at the SABC after he lied about having matric and was fingered in last year's scathing report from the Public Protector which found that he should "never have been appointed at the SABC".

Hlaudi Motsoeneng also told Waldimar Pelser that South African journalists should be regulated.

It's now the 5th time that Hlaudi Motsoeneng, in his position as the SABC's second highest executive, has publicly called for South Africa's journalists to be licensed and for South Africa's press to be regulated.

"I'm lobbying big time for this country to regulate. I'm lobbying the department of communications to make sure that we regulate journalists as a whole," said Hlaudi Motsoeneng.

Hlaudi Motsoeneng again slammed South African press saying "journalists always criticise".

"Most of the issues that journalists report these days its hearsay," Hlaudi Motsoeneng told Waldimar Pelser on Monday night's broadcast.

"The role of the media is to influence the mindset of the young and the old," said Hlaudi Motsoeneng who looked uncomfortable during the entire 11 minute interview and came across as awkward and defensive.

"If you always put crime on media, you report about crime, actually what you are doing you are encouraging young people to commit crime."

"If you always report about crime, and people appear on the newspaper, on media general, its about crime, you are also influencing the young ones to commit crime. Cause they will believe that for me to be seen, I should commit crime," said Hlaudi Motsoeneng.

Waldimar Pelser then asked Hlaudi Motsoeneng what about the consequence of reporting on corruption. A flabbergasted Hlaudi Motsoeneng appeared dumbstruck and gobsmacked for a moment.

"It depends, it depends. It depends if its a real corruption or a people are just talking about issues," said Hlaudi Motsoeneng.

You can watch the entire interview here on YouTube:

BREAKING. kykNET cancels its breakfast show Dagbreek after 2 years; culling its new weekday 21:30 late night timeslot after lackluster reaction.

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kykNET (DStv 144) is cancellings its breakfast show Dagbreek after just two years and cutting back dramatically on the shows for its new late night timeslot strand at 21:30 introduced just 4 months ago.

According to sources kykNET is readying dramatic scheduling changes, cancelling its weekday breakfast TV show Dagbreek. The channel might return a new breakfast type show with a new name and format later.

kykNET is also culling its recently introduced late night actuality TV strand, halving the shows' time and outright axing some programming.

On Monday insider sources told TV with Thinus that Dagbreek ("Daybreak"), kykNET's breakfast morning show is over just over two years after it was started in November 2012.

According to sources, the Afrikaans TV channel run by M-Net on MultiChoice's DStv is also culling its late night timeslot strand at 21:30 on weekdays since viewership has been lackluster despite the huge investment.

The late night actuality slot with different themed late night show ranging from news to comedy and talk was introduced with great fanfare in October 2014.

It has however largely failed to perform during the past four months with kykNET viewership for the new shows which has been lackluster despite the introduction of several fresh faces and on-screen talent, new sets and several hours of original, first-run programming nightly.

kykNET is now scaling back its offering at 21:30 on weeknights and will be trying something else.

According to sources all of these kykNET shows like Prontuit, Winslyn and VrydagNag Laat (VNL) are getting cut down from an hour daily to half an hour shows, except Monday's Insig with Rapport newspaper editor Waldimar Pelser which will remain an hour in duration. Flits on Thursdays is getting cancelled outright.


kykNET: A new breakfast programme in the pipeline
On Tuesday kykNET, asked whether Dagbreek has been cancelled and why, tells TV with Thinus that "Dagbreek will take a temporary break from April," saying "a new breakfast programme is in the pipeline and an announcement about it will be made soon".

kykNET gave no indication of how long there won't be a breakfast show from April on the channel, or why Dagbreek is over.

Asked whether the late night timeslot shows on kykNET are being cut down to half an hour except for Insig with Waldimar Pelser and Flits being cancelled completely kykNET only says "the late night programmes built on the Dagbreek premise are also affected but a lot of it is retained."

"More information about the late night schedule from April will be known soon," says kykNET.

kykNET says the channel believes "there's a lot of potential to grow our late night audience with a fresh and innovative offering consisting out of the right mix of actuality, lifestyle and entertainment".

kykNET on DStv adds brand-new actuality timeslot with new programming strands and presenters every weeknight from 6 October.

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M-Net's Afrikaans language TV channel kykNET (DStv 144) is adding a brand-new late-night actuality timeslot with new programmes and presenters as a fixed new programming strand which will run on every weeknight from Monday 6 October.

From Monday 6 October viewers will be able to tune in for new actuality and magazine shows like Insig with Waldimar Pelser who is the editor of the Afrikaans Sunday newspaper Rapport; while kykNET is reviving one of its first local actuality shows, the longrunning studio talk show Prontuit and is even bringing back the original presenter Mariëtta Kruger.

The new kykNET actuality timeslot is in response to viewers demanding less repeats and more regularly updated magazine and actuality programming which changes more often than other serialised and heavily repeated shows.

The new weekday actuality slot on kykNET will feature various programmes ranging from politics and economic issues to business, culture, the arts, fashion and even satire.

The increase in new Afrikaans programming on kykNET comes at the same time that the SABC moved the bulk of Afrikaans programming permanently from SABC2 to SABC3, the public broadcaster's TV channel with the smallest footprint, making several Afrikaans TV shows less accessible to millions of terrestrial TV viewers in South Africa.

In July the SABC lied and said the move of the Afrikaans TV news bulletin from SABC2 to SABC3 as well as programming was only temporary, although it had already been planned as a permanent move.

The SABC also ordered the Afrikaans soap 7de Laan on SABC2 to reduced the amount of Afrikaans.

Besides Waldimar Pelser, Yvonne Beyers and Mariëtta Kruger kykNET viewers will also see iconic South African soap star Shaleen Surtie-Richards becoming a TV presenter, as well as Jody Abrahams, Bouwer Bosch, Santie Botha, Kabous Meiring, Kim Cloete, Divan Botha, Fanie Cronjé, Francois Toerien and Melt Sieberhagen fronting shows from October in the actuality timeslot.

"At kykNET, we continuously strive to improve and renew our schedule," says Karen Meiring, M-Net's director of Afrikaans channels.

"Our viewers' need for more relevant actuality programming was the reason behind the decision to make our available late night slots more actuality-driven, instead of repeating programmes".

"We not only want to inform and entertain, but also expand on everyday issues to stimulate conversation. This is a major move to something fresh and highly exciting – a brand new late night lineup that'll get tongues wagging on screen and across all social and other media".