{"id":260205,"date":"2018-05-15T17:21:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T15:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=260205"},"modified":"2018-05-15T17:22:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T15:22:49","slug":"etv-owner-launches-second-tv-news-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/260205-etv-owner-launches-second-tv-news-channel.html","title":{"rendered":"Etv owner launches second TV news channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Etv and eNCA owner eMedia has announced it will launch a second television news channel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enca.com\/south-africa\/sa-media-landscape-opening-up-as-emedia-launches-opennews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>eNCA<\/strong><\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The channel will be named OpenNews and will be broadcast on the OpenView platform.<\/p>\n<p>eMedia CEO Andr\u00e9 van der Veen said the OpenNews channel will launch near the end of 2018 and will be distinctively different from eNCA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpenNews will be offering viewers an integrated news channel combining short-format news, on-screen information, and links with selected social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram, and a proprietary app,&#8221; said van der Veen.<\/p>\n<p>The OpenNews line-up will reportedly include syndicated content from eMedia, such as The Spotlight, The Tim Modise Network, and The Fix.<\/p>\n<p>eMedia will also launch a two-hour block of Afrikaans programming on eExtra, which is available on OpenView channel 105 and DStv channel 195.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/240536-we-didnt-do-what-multichoice-did-etv.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">We didn\u2019t do what MultiChoice did \u2013 Etv<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Etv and eNCA owner eMedia will launch a second television news channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":260207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[85,50819,19001,50821,50823],"class_list":["post-260205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-emedia-investments","tag-enca","tag-opennews","tag-openview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260205"}],"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=260205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260209,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260205\/revisions\/260209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}