SABC's 24hr channel requires clarity
South African Broadcasting Corporation's (SABC's) decision to launch its 24-hour news channel on pay-TV MultiChoice's platform needs clarity on its business case.
This is particularly necessitated as free-to-air e.tv offered the public broadcaster the prime first three channels of its soon-to-be launched satellite TV service at discounted rates.
I have written to the Minister of Communications, Yunus Carrim, asking him to publicly clarify whether Acting Chief Operations Officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng had the approval of either himself or the previous Minister to negotiate and sign a deal of this magnitude and the expected financial benefits that are expected to accrue from it.
In the letter, I requested that Minister Carrim clarify: