Television Coverage
SABC2's breakfast show Morning Live with Leanne Manas and Vuyo Mbuli is now doubling up its on-air timeslot for two days from tomorrow for extensive South African local election coverage.
The longrunning Morning Live, usually broadcast between 06:00 and 08:00 on weekdays on SABC2 will be extending its broadcast by another 2 hours - effectively doubling its usual timeslot - tomorrow and Thursday (see Thursday UPDATE below). On Wednesday and Thursday (see Thursday UPDATE below) morning Morning Live will go out between 06:00 and 10:00 for 4 hours per day, primarily focusing on the election on Wednesday and results information and analysis on Thursday.
Since yesterday (Monday) Morning Live is originating from the IEC's Pretoria Election Centre where Morning Live has a specially-built studio. The news is still done from the SABC's Auckland Park headquarters with news reader Desiree Chauke when Morning Live crosses over back to its usual studio.
UPDATE Tuesday 17 May 15:00 - SABC2 just decided to extend Morning Live's broadcast hours on Thursday 19 May even further to 5 hours. Morning Live this Thursday will now be starting at 05:00 to 10:00, instead of at 06:00.
SABC2 also just decided to dump its entire Thursday night schedule. The half hour Afrikaans Nuus om 7 and the Sotho news bulletin will both collapse to be combined into one half hour bulletin at 19:00 on Thursday. From 19:30 on Thursday night SABC2 will now have continuous live election results coverage. SABC2 says its Thursday night election results broadcast will carry on from 19:30 to 05:00 on Friday morning 20 May right through the night.
And eNews
The eNews Channel will stay with dedicated election coverage from 06:00 on Wednesday 18 May for 48 hours and will have a team of news anchors and reporters at election ''hotspots'' including the Results Centre of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) in pretoria, the Cape Town IEC Centre, Port Elizabeth and East London as well as Durban's IEC Centre. TV reporters will also be at polling stations across South Africa for the day.
The eNews Channel says it will supplement its election day coverage with comprehensive analyses with top expert guests although no names are provided.
The e.tv schedule changes for Wednesday with e.tv taking the eNews Channel feed during several times of the day, most notably using the strength of the Morning News Today broadcast as well as the eNews Channel's primetime news bulletin News Night.
e.tv will be switching over using the eNews Channel feed on Wednesday from 06:00 to 09:00 to broadcast Morning News Today.
The eNews Channel feed will also be running on e.tv between 10:00 and 11:20. Then there is also the usual News Day between 13:00 and 13:30.
e.tv will again switch over from 18:00 on Wednesday evening for a simulcast broadcast of the live News Night with Jeremy Maggs and Nikiwe Bikitsha.
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