The SABC's plan to launch its own streaming service is crucial to its survival

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moosag

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lol.... I love their grands plans and ideas....

They couldn't organise a piss up in bar if their lives depended on it.

LoL -> SABC wants to compete with Netflix LoL
 
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Maybe the junior managers earning R1m per year will be able to come up with something
 
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Wondering if this bold new strategy is somehow linked to the ICASA spectrum auction next year. I wouldn't be surprised if this idea is the root for a later corruption involving said spectrum.

Nothing can surprise me where the state or a subsidiary is involved in a new grand scheme.

Perhaps I'm being overly cautious.
 
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Turdnugget said:
It won't ever have the content to be able to compete. This is just a desperate attempt to justify a "TV" license on cellphones. IMO the SABC does provide a valuable service and we do still need it, but we should collapse it into core broadcasts. We only need it for news, national events, and radio. We can get that MNet open time loading screen for the rest.
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This.
 
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Pull the life support, free up the bed for a more deserving patient.
 
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1. They don't have the content
2. They don't have the money required to buy content.
3. Their audience cannot afford to pay a TV license, how are they going to afford data to stream content.

So I don't see this being a success
 
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Those that can afford the internet required for a streaming service are not SABC's target market. People watch SABC because they literally cannot afford to watch anything else. Never have I seen a company so unaware of who their consumers are. They keep trying to posture themselves as some sort of premium offering when their content is junk and only caters to the lower class section of South Africa. SABC is winning the race to the bottom as they've built their content to cater for the masses, who have no money, and now they wonder why they can't get any revenue.
 
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I don't think this will never happen because of a lack o
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
1. They don't have the content
2. They don't have the money required to buy content.
3. Their audience cannot afford to pay a TV license, how are they going to afford data to stream content.

So I don't see this being a success
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I agree with all of it except that some of their don't want to afford a TV License. R31 per month is not much
 
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ThinkCentre said:
I don't think this will never happen because of a lack o


I agree with all of it except that some of their don't want to afford a TV License. R31 per month is not much
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Not much, 30 + million of SABC's audience cannot afford to give up the price of 2x loaves of bread, or a packet of cigarettes.
 
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