Johannesburg Sunday, 01 September 2019. The SABC Board has reaffirmed its utmost support and respect for the SABC’s Executive Directors who have done a sterling job thus far in very difficult circumstances. The Board will not be drawn into discussing internal board matters and alleged differences between Board members.
Johannesburg-Sunday, 01 September 2019-The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) would like to apologise for the disruption of broadcast services for all Johannesburg based radio stations between 07h00 and 08h00 this morning. The affected radio stations include METRO FM, 5FM, Radio 2000, SAFM and RSG.
Johannesburg – Friday, 30 August 2019 – The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is pleased to announce that Ms. Sylvia Tladi has been appointed the Acting Chief Operations Officer (ACOO) with immediate effect.
Johannesburg–Wednesday, 28 August 2019-The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is proud to announce that the audience measurement (RAM) survey released yesterday indicates a significant growth for some of the SABC radio stations for the period of January 2019 to June 2019. The survey indicates that the biggest radio station in the continent, Ukhozi FM, now reaches a weekly audience of 7.7 million (All adults 15+). This is the largest audience the isiZulu language station has recorded since 2016 when the Broadcast Research Council took over radio measurement.
Johannesburg – Friday, 23 August 2019 – MultiChoice Group’s SuperSport and the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) are pleased to have come to a commercial agreement on terms that will allow the Free to Air Broadcast of the PSL. The agreement between SuperSport and the SABC is for five years and recognizes the need to maintain the financial sustainability of the PSL, as well as ensuring that the SABC delivers on its public mandate of serving the interests of South Africans in regards to Sports.
Johannesburg-Monday, 19 August 2019-The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) will tomorrow (20 August 2019) file an application at the Labour Court, which seeks to have irregular appointments within the Corporation declared unlawful, invalid and set aside. These are appointments that are deemed to have been effected without following relevant SABC policies.
Johannesburg – Monday 12 August 2019 – The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) regrets to announce the resignation of Dr. Craig van Rooyen as Acting Chief Operations Officer (COO) and Group Executive: Technology. Dr. Van Rooyen’s resignation is due to personal and family reasons. He will be leaving the SABC on 9 September 2019.
Johannesburg – Monday, 5 August 2019 – The South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) Board has made public the findings of an Independent Commission of Inquiry into interference in the decision making in Newsroom of the SABC (“the Report”) between the years 2012-2017.
In May 2018, the SABC established an independent commission of inquiry and appointed veteran journalist Dr Joe Thloloe as an industry expert to head it. He was supported by Mr. Stephen Tawana from MMM Attorneys.
Johannesburg – Saturday 03 August 2019 – The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) regrets to announce that no sublicense agreement was reached with SuperSport, in respect to the broadcast of matches of the new PSL season.
The SABC was expected to pay SuperSport R280 million for 144 matches per year for a period of five years, and during that period, the SABC would haommercially viable agreement for the SABC.ve made revenue of only R9.8 million per year. This would not have been a c
Johannesburg – Thursday, 01 August 2019 – METRO FM will on Monday, 05 August 2019 shake things up a little with Moeti ‘Moflava’ Tsiki taking over the coveted 05:00-09:00 breakfast slot. This exciting new show called ‘Morning Flava’ promises to keep listeners entertained, informed and ready to tackle the day ahead.
He moves over with his team Pearl Shongwe on news, Owen Hannie as the sports guru of the show and Moshe Ndike who will join the team every Friday.
