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Thursday, January 19, 2023

SABC: Boardless for 3 months and counting as loss-making public broadcaster's revenue generating plans slip away.

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by Thinus Ferreira This week marks an unprecedented three months - and counting - that the unstable and cash-strapped SABC has been without ...

SA's 2022 Oscars snub: NFVF's secret selection group decides no South African film is good enough to enter for 95th Academy Awards, claims films don't depict 'marginalised communities' well enough.

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by Thinus Ferreira  Filmmakers are disappointed and furious following South Africa's failure to select and enter a film for 2023's O...

Public broadcaster to launch a SABC TV Licence loyalty programme with tiered-rewards to try decrease licence fee evasion rate.

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by Thinus Ferreira South Africa's public broadcaster will launch a SABC TV Licence loyalty programme, with tiered-rewards, in an attempt...

HBO's House of the Dragon and Amazon Prime Video's The Rings of Power top 2022's most pirated series list.

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by Thinus Ferreira  Fantasy TV series ruled the robbers' roost last year with HBO's House of the Dragon which rose to become 2022...

SABC revives Metro FM Awards in 2023 set for live awards show on SABC1 on 29 April in Mbombela.

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by Thinus Ferreira After an absence of half a decade the SABC is bringing back the Metro FM Music Awards, with the music awards ceremony kno...
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

SABC set to launch a second SABC News TV channel in South Africa's indigenous languages.

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by Thinus Ferreira The South African public broadcaster will soon launch a second SABC News TV channel, similar to the existing English-lang...
Saturday, January 7, 2023

M-Net schedules ITV's Prince Harry book tour interview for 9 January 2023 on DStv as he talks about his drug use and broken British royal relationships in 90-minute British TV special.

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by Thinus Ferreira M-Net has acquired the British one out of two pre-recorded upcoming TV interviews that Prince Harry gave to promote his u...
Wednesday, December 7, 2022

In embarrassing switcheroo the channel launch of BBC UKTV switches from eMedia's Openview to MultiChoice's DStv.

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by Thinus Ferreira After eMedia and BBC Studios Africa announced in late September  that it would be adding the BBC UKTV channel to the Open...
Sunday, December 4, 2022

SABC+ adds SABC Festive as December 2022 pop-up channel with music specials and comedy.

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by Thinus Ferreira The South African public broadcaster's new video streaming service SABC+ has added SABC Festive as a temporary pop-up...