BREAKING. SABC will broadcast some World Cup Soccer games in 3D. But there's a catch . . .

 The SABC will be broadcasting some upcoming matches during the FIFA 2010 Soccer World Cup tournament in June and July in 3D . . . but there's a catch: it will only be viewable on special 3D enabled flat screen TV sets, and will only be in selected SABC venues.

ESPN (DStv 230) will also broadcast the upcoming Soccer World Cup in 3D, but not on its South African TV channel. Neither will the SABC or M-Net get or show a 3D feed, although the SABC plans to lift a 3D feed and show it to select guests across the country.

Peter Kwele, the SABC's head of the 2010 Soccer World Cup unit says the South African public broadcaster will showcase the Soccer World Cup in 3D with some matches being shown in the new technology, in some specific locations to VIP guests and press.

BREAKING. SABC will have 250 hours of Soccer World Cup coverage in South Africa from June.

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The SABC just officially announced in parliament what I already told you on 3 March regarding the public broadcaster's plans for the upcoming FIFA Soccer World Cup RIGHT HERE.

The South African public broadcaster will have 250 hours of television coverage of the Soccer World Cup when it kicks off in June. The SABC will broadcast all 64 Soccer World Cup games live across all three of the SABC's TV channels, with the bulk on SABC1, some on SABC2 and SABC3 showing repeats that viewers will be able to vote for.

The SABC says the broadcaster has five newly acquired, high definition (HD) ready, state-of-the-art outside broadcast (OB) vans that will all be employed and used during the Soccer World Cup.

BREAKING. SuperSport plans massive TV coverage of FIFA 2010 World Cup with 4 new TV channels.

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The Fifa 2010 World Cup will be the biggest TV broadcast production for M-Net's sports arm, SuperSport, in the 23 year history of the sports broadcaster.

For the Soccer World Cup in June SuperSport plans AT LEAST 4 specially produced World Cup TV channels, of which 3 will broadcast for 24 hours. The 4th one will be the SuperSport HD channel that will be used to broadcast high definition football matches.

For the World Cup SuperSport also plans 4 unique daily magazine shows: Chase the Makarapa, Woza Lunchtime, Supernova and Harambee. ''This is the closest the TV viewer will be to the World Cup,'' says Tex Teixeira, SuperSport's head of production. ''Picture clarity, the number of cameras, replays, graphics and super-slomos will be better than ever before''.

SuperSport will receive the live feed for broadcast from HBS, the Swiss-based host broadcaster of the tournament. Where matches in the 2006 World Cup used 26 TV cameras, this will be bumped up to 29 per match, with 3 more to be used for selected matches. These include, for the first time, an aerial camera and an ultra motion camera that produces between 300 and 1000 frames per second in HD, allowing for the capture of 20 to 40 times more frames compared to a standard camera.

SuperSport is also building a multi-purpose high definition studio set - the biggest sports studio in SuperSport history. Regular anchors Robert Marawa, Thomas Mlambo, Neil Andrews, Gary Bailey and Thomas Kwenaite will be joined by Charles Anazodo of Nigeria. The four magazine shows will be hosted by Elana Afrika, Bobby Skinstad, Michelle McLean and Nonhle Thema.

BREAKING. BBC coming to Cape Town in 2010.

The BBC is coming to Cape Town in 2010 and setting up shop with a specially built studio on top of the Somerset Hospital from which the BBC will broadcast from before, and during the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa.

The BBC will construct a main presentation studio in Cape Town on top of Somerset Hospital in Green Point from where the BBC will broadcast from 6 weeks prior, and during the course of the Soccer World Cup held in South Africa next year.

The BBC will broadcast 32 live soccer games and present from the Cape Town studio, giving viewers a view of Table Mountain, The V&A Waterfront, Cape Town Stadium and Robben Island.

This includes live links and inserts from Cape Town. BBC Radio, BBC Africa and BBC Online Services will also be based in Cape Town. ''Our production set-up in Cape Town next year will be our biggest to date taking into account all previous Soccer World Cups,'' says Phil Bigwood, the BBC's executive producer of sport.