MultiChoice to help digitise the SABC's archives in the same way in which MultiChoice helped to digitise the ANC's archives.

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MultiChoice will help to digitise the SABC's archive in the same way the satellite pay-TV platform has digitised the ANC's archives for that political party.

MultiChoice made the announcement at the launch event on Thursday afternoon of the SABC's second attempt at establishing a 24-hour TV news channel, the SABC News channel which went live at 18:00 on

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'My name is Zandile," the SABC chairperson tells news anchor Peter Ndoro on the new SABC News channel when he wrongly calls her Andile.

Barely an hour into the start of the broadcast of the SABC's new SABC News (DStv 404) 24-hour news channel, the very first on-air embarrassment took place.

The new primetime SABC News anchor Peter Ndodo didn't know and use the correct name of the interim SABC chairperson Zandile Tshabalala - mistakenly referring to her as Andile, after which she publicly corrected him on live television.

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The SABC as a public broadcaster needs to communicate more, says minister of communications, Yunus Carrim.

South Africa's new minister of communications, Yunus Carrim, says the SABC should be communicating much more to viewers about what the broadcaster is doing.

On the SABC's new SABC News (DStv 404) 24-hour TV news channel Yunus Carrim said on Thursday evening that "the SABC is very, very challenged, but it is not as challenged as what is made out in the public domain."

"One of the tasks the

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eNCA congratulates the SABC on the start of the SABC News channel as the public broadcaster's second attempt at a 24-hour TV news channel.

The 24-hour independent TV news channel eNCA (DStv 403) is congratulating the SABC and SABC News with the start of the SABC News channel as the South African public broadcaster's second try at a 24-hour TV news channel.

"We know how hard it is to launch and maintain a 24-hour news service and can appreciate the amount of work required," Patrick Conroy, the group head of news at eNCA tells

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BREAKING. SABC News launches as new 24-hour channel with Peter Ndoro and Vabakshnee Chetty, 'telling the story that South Africans want to hear.'

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SABC News as the SABC's new 24-hour TV news channel launched at 18:00 on MultiChoice's DStv channel 404 anchored by Peter Ndoro and Vabakshnee Chetty using the news studio used for SABC3's daily news bulletin at 18:30

Besides a skeleton grid schedule neither the SABC, nor MultiChoice, released to the press and TV critics by the end of the business day on

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BREAKING. SABC News channel launches 'with bottles of real champagne'; Lulama Mokhobo, SABC CEO, says 'tough task ahead'.

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The SABC, funded by MultiChoice with hundreds of millions of rands for the establishment of its new SABC News 24-hour channel on DStv channel 404, held a launch event on Thursday afternoon in Henley Studios where the SABC CEO Lulama Mokhobo remarked that "for the first time in the history of the SABC I see bottles of real champagne".

The launch was attended

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BREAKING. SABC News 24-hour channel must 'seize the opportunity to cover South Africa beyond crime and corruption,' says president Jacob Zuma.

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The SABC's new 24-hour TV news channel, SABC News, launching at 18:00 on MultiChoice's DStv platform on channel 404 "is being established at the right time", says president Jacob Zuma who is speaking at the channel's launch event being held at the SABC's headquarters at Auckland Park, saying "we hope this channel will seize the opportunity to cover South

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