How would you fix the SABC?

Kevin Lancaster

Kevin Lancaster

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The SABC is a mess right now, with an interim board, acting CEO, and not enough money to operate.

How would you fix the SABC, and what should its purpose be in South Africa?
 
Dig a big hole.

Push everything SABC related into the hole.

Bury it.
 
Cut the heads, seems like there are too many Chiefs and not enough Indians.

At an average Salary of R60500 per month these oaks are living it large !!

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I would shut it down, chop it up into pieces and sell it off to the highest bidder to pay off the debt. Anything that is profitable then gets put together again and listed on the JSE with the government as a major shareholder.

If the SABC were a private company, it would have been been shuttered up and sold of years ago. That is how our SOEs need to be run. There is no constitutional or legal right to TV or radio, so it is dubious at best why the government needs to be involved.
 
For those of you who are interested, notice the cost of the Server upgrade. 18mil.

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Sticky Fingers R441 Million

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I wouldn't try to fix it. Kill it and let it die.

Then let private enterprise take over.
 
Scrap the license fee and replace it with a monthly subscription on the new DTT decoders which are currently on hold yet again I believe ...
 
Cut local documentaries/ soaps/ movies. They're expensive to produce and most people involved in them train at SABC and then leave to further their careers.
 
I wouldn't fix it at all.

Shut it down and hand over all assets and licenses to DSTV or E-TV and let them operate a free service instead.

They obviously know what they are doing.

Opt for a performance based solution instead of a retarded traditional one.
 
Fire most 80% of top management. Make the radio stations proper music station catering for different genres, a lot less talk and no political opinions.
Have a full time news station that actually have investigative journalists, report in a unbiased and fair factual manner.
Have a full time sports chanel, go out and film everything and anything that DSTV didn't buy the rights to, school sport if you must.
Have a movie chanel to play all the old clasic movies over and over again
Have a soapy/series chanel full day.
Balance the buget and get rid of everything until the buget is positive. Run on absolute minimum staff, especially in management positions.
Once add revenue starts picking up again invest in new or original content.

Much easier to just close it down.

They can also do a music chanel for tv. Something like the old MK or Mtv'ish
 
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Fire entire board and top management structure.
1. Privatize
2. Start appointing new board of directors on merit.
3. Appoint new CEO, COO and CFO, people with degrees and experience in business, finances etc.
4. Slowely start cutting out other dead wood, useless wood etc. I'm sure there are a lot of people on the payroll who's just taking up space, streamline the entire operation.
5. Let program directors and producers make program decisions based on their experience and what they are good with. Let the business people run the business and TV people run the TV.
6. Go back to a model of content for all South African's both on radio and TV. Get people to want to watch SABC channels again in other words good original content which DSTV and others doesn't have, same with radio, something good on the radio for all.
If you can get 6 going, you can get people to pay their TV licences again, you can get them to see that it's the right thing to do.
 
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