{"id":163004,"date":"2016-04-25T10:40:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T08:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=163004"},"modified":"2016-04-25T10:41:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T08:41:41","slug":"sabc-to-launch-new-tv-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/163004-sabc-to-launch-new-tv-channels.html","title":{"rendered":"SABC to launch new TV channels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SABC will\u00a0establish new \u201clanguage-based\u201d television channels, and will no longer advertise job vacancies and tenders in print or through other media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/south-africa\/sabc-launch-new-channels\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Africa News Agency<\/strong><\/a>, which stated the broadcaster will create TV channels that &#8220;strictly cover a cluster of language groups&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese channels will serve the millions of SABC\u2019s audiences in the language of their choice,\u201d said COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sesotho, Setswana, and Sepedi will form\u00a0the Sotho channel.<\/li>\n<li>isiZulu, isiXhosa, siSwati, and isiNdebele will form the\u00a0Nguni channel.<\/li>\n<li>xiTsonga and tshiVenda will form the third\u00a0channel.<\/li>\n<li>Afrikaans, and content including the Khoisan community, will form the base of the fourth channel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The SABC said it will also increase local content offerings, and\u00a0pay more attention to jazz and reggae music.<\/p>\n<p>SABC news bulletins will also receive\u00a0a segment dedicated to news from the provinces.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Job adverts<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThe SABC has also decided it will advertise its employment vacancies and tender advertisements on the SABC\u2019s television, radio, and digital platforms only,&#8221; said\u00a0Motsoeneng.<\/p>\n<p>This decision will be implemented with immediate effect, stated the report.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the SABC<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/161508-ban-on-alcohol-ads-will-hurt-sabc-minister.html\">Ban on alcohol ads will hurt SABC: Minister<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/161402-sabc-not-here-to-make-a-profit-hlaudi-motsoeneng.html\">SABC not here to make a profit: Hlaudi Motsoeneng<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SABC will establish new \u201clanguage-based\u201d television channels, and will no longer advertise job vacancies and tenders in print or through other media platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":92943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18668],"tags":[36,8489,361],"class_list":["post-163004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","category-government","tag-active","tag-hlaudi-motsoeneng","tag-sabc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163006,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163004\/revisions\/163006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}