SABC and Athletic South Africa (ASA) have recently announced an agreement to broadcast the athletic games. The public broadcaster will produce and broadcast marathons, track, field and road running events. Some of the marathon events will include the Cape Town Marathon, Two Oceans Marathon, Nelson Mandela Marathon and Comrades Marathon while the track and field [...]
The public broadcaster in financial difficulty confirmed to ZAlebs that it had taken the radical decision not to return Zaziwa to service for a new season. Zaziwa was once dubbed South Africa’s most-watched talk show on SABC. It dominated the Thursday time slot at 7:30 p.m. and drew over 4 million viewers. The show had [...]
Demand Africa (DA), announced today that M-NET Studios, Cote Ouest, eTV, BBC, and SABC have joined the list of topmost African distributors showcasing the best of the continent on its OTT streaming platform. These landmark deals will deliver over 1,500 hours of premium Pan-African lifestyle, movies and TV shows, many of which have never been [...]
The SABC is working on a pay-per-view streaming service in Cape Town to make accessible content available via a valid SABC TV license number as part of a “freemium” approach. Even though all television and radio services of the South African public broadcaster will remain free and freely accessible, the SABC has begun to create [...]
The South African Broadcasting Association (SABC) and the South African Football Association (SAFA) have finally reached a four- year deal that will see Bafana Bafana and Banyana Banyana matches broadcast on terrestrial television. The agreement will start with live coverage on SABC 1 of Bafana’s Nelson Mandela Challenge clash with Mali. The deal includes all [...]
Currently, South African’s pay just R265 per year or 72 cents per day to have an active, valid TV license, however that fee may change. SABC board chairperson Bongumusa Makhathini says that the current license fee is not enough to sustain the broadcaster given the variety of platforms it broadcasts on. “South Africans are only [...]
SABC secured the rights to broadcast Absa Premiership matches for R72m a season over five years. The public broadcaster paid R72m-per-season deal with SuperSport for the broadcast rights after it refused a R280m-per-year proposal that it said was not commercially feasible. Premiership matches were not aired on the public broadcaster in the opening weeks of [...]
SABC and South Africa’s Premier Soccer League (PSL) have confirmed the national broadcaster will not show Absa Premiership matches. PSL said that the nation may have to “accept that the SABC is incapable of meeting its requirements and the situation is unacceptable moving forward”. “The PSL will provide regular updates to the public as a [...]
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) will no longer air any live matches during the rest of the Cricket World Cup. The national broadcaster has just revealed their updated schedule which indicated the remaining matches would be split between delayed TV broadcasts and radio-only live coverage. South Africa’s first two matches against England and Bangladesh [...]
Viu, an entertainment streaming service, has introduced popular series Yizo Yizo on South African screens. As part of its license deal with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), Viu has obtained exclusive digital rights to a collection of South Africa’s favorite shows from the public broadcaster’s catalogue, including the highly popular Yizo Yizo, and other series like: The [...]
