Scrap TV licence fees in South Africa – Outa

[supersunbird]

Troll much?

Ah yes, so that's the term for less than worthless...

 

[Totempole]

Serious question: why did you visit the SABC website more than once? (the definition of insanity comes to mind)

Full honest answer... system32 posted something about an SABC4 and I wanted to see if it actually ever existed.

Only visited once, but also clicked a couple links on the page.

 

[j4ck455]

Full honest answer... system32 posted something about an SABC4 and I wanted to see if it actually ever existed.

Only visited once, but also clicked a couple links on the page.

Well there's your problem right there!!!

I vaguely remember there being a 4th SABC TV channel, not sure when it was, maybe the 90s.

 

[sdrawk]

Well there's your problem right there!!!

I vaguely remember there being a 4th SABC TV channel, not sure when it was, maybe the 90s.

I think BOPTV was accidentally broadcast countrywide for like a week...

 

[j4ck455]

I think BOPTV was accidentally broadcast countrywide for like a week...

Signal from that was too weak where I lived, don't know/remember anything about BOPTV being broadcasted accidentally.

 

[sdrawk]

I was in PMB at the time, many miles from "Bophutatswana"

 

[spiff]

SABC TV4

With a limited budget, early programming aimed at children tended to be quite innovative, and programmes such as the Afrikaans-language puppet shows Haas Das se Nuus Kas and Oscar in Asblikfontein are still fondly remembered by many.[41]

On 1 January 1982, two services were introduced, TV2 broadcasting in Zulu and Xhosa and TV3 broadcasting in Sotho and Tswana, both targeted at a Black urban audience.[42] The main channel, now called TV1, was divided evenly between English and Afrikaans, as before. In 1985, a new service called TV4 was introduced, carrying sports and entertainment programming, using the channel shared by TV2 and TV3, which stopped broadcasting at 9:30pm.[43]

In 1992, TV2, TV3 and TV4 were combined into a new service called CCV (Contemporary Community Values).[44] A third channel was introduced known as TSS, or TopSport Surplus, TopSport being the brand name for the SABC's sport coverage, but this was replaced by NNTV (National Network TV), an educational, non-commercial channel, in 1994.[45]