{"id":7704,"date":"2021-06-14T09:17:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T09:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/sabc\/?p=7704"},"modified":"2021-06-14T09:17:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T09:17:14","slug":"media-statement-sabc-alerts-the-public-on-scroller-message-as-the-switch-off-of-analogue-tv-transmitters-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/media-statement-sabc-alerts-the-public-on-scroller-message-as-the-switch-off-of-analogue-tv-transmitters-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"MEDIA STATEMENT &#124; SABC ALERTS THE PUBLIC ON SCROLLER MESSAGE AS THE SWITCH-OFF OF ANALOGUE TV TRANSMITTERS CONTINUES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Johannesburg \u2013 Monday, 14 June 2021 \u2013 <\/strong>The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) would like to alert the public of a scrolling message appearing on all SABC television channels (SABC 1, 2 and S3), broadcast through analogue TV transmitters.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe primary purpose of this message is to alert the public of the impending analogue switch off and the need to change to alternative digital technologies for television viewing. This is in keeping with President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s announcement during this year\u2019s State of the Nation Address (SONA), wherein he pronounced that all analogue transmissions will be switched off by April 2022.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThis message will only appear on analogue television platforms and not on our digital platforms (i.e. DTT, DTH, DSTV, OpenView and OTT platforms).<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe scrolling message reads as follows:<br \/>\n<strong><em>\u201cThis analogue broadcast service will be switched off permanently.\u00a0 To continue receiving this and other high-quality broadcast services, visit your nearest post office to enquire and to register for a government-subsidized digital decoder.\u00a0 WhatsApp 060 062 5458 or call 0860 736 832 for more information\u201d.<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe message will run for one week a month until the end of March 2022. The SABC will endeavour to keep the public informed as and when new developments occur.<br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>END<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Issued By:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Group Communications <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Media Enquiries:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ms. Gugu Ntuli (Group Executive: Corporate Affairs and Marketing)<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:NtuliGM@sabc.co.za\"><strong>NtuliGM@sabc.co.za<\/strong><\/a><strong>|T. 011 714 3311|C. 071 877 0531<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg \u2013 Monday, 14 June 2021 \u2013 The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) would like to alert the public of a scrolling message appearing on all SABC television channels (SABC 1, 2 and S3), broadcast through analogue TV transmitters. &nbsp; The primary purpose of this message is to alert the public of the impending analogue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}