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A concessionary rate of R70 is available for those over 70, disabled persons and war veterans who are on social welfare. The licence fee partially funds the public broadcaster, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), providing R972 million (almost €90 million) in 2008–9. SABC derives much of its income from advertising.
South African TV Series that Start with B Title Language Date Released # Seasons/Episodes Corporation or Channel Notes Baasspeurder Faber: Dubbed in Afrikaans 1984-1993 11 seasons, 197 episodes Dubbed from the German Transtel police crime series Der Fahnder, starring Klaus Wennemann. Backstage [7] English 2000-2007 e.TV Locally produced soap opera.
SABC offices in Sea Point, Cape Town. An IBA report on the state of the broadcasting industry in South Africa was released on 29 August 1995. Recommendations were given for the SABC to lose one of its three television channels, with the network being used for private television, demanding the creation of two or three private networks.
The first digital television implementation in South Africa was a satellite-based system launched by pay-TV operator MultiChoice in 1995. On 22 February 2007, the South African government announced that the country's public TV operators would begin broadcasting in digital by 1 November 2008, followed by a three-year dual-illumination period ...
The sister company of e.tv, Platco Digital, launched the Openview HD platform on 16 October 2013. [3] The product came to the market during a time where South Africa's transition to digital terrestrial television was slowed down both due to political and corporate gridlock.
The licence fee pays for TV, radio and online programmes and services including iPlayer, Radio 1, CBeebies and the World Service. It also funds Welsh language TV channel S4C and local TV channels.
The is a list of South African mass media, ... South African Broadcasting Corporation. SABC 1; SABC 2; SABC 3; ... Via TV [2] BRICS Africa Channel [3]
At the channel's launch event, the COO of SABC at the time used that event to rant about making pay-tv platforms like MultiChoice's DStv pay for SABC 1-3 and how the SABC is run by a 'blind person'. He also took the stage to call out those with their 'lack of knowledge' over the deal the public broadcaster has for the channel alongside SABC News.