{"id":141795,"date":"2016-10-31T10:56:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T08:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=141795"},"modified":"2016-10-31T10:56:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T08:56:17","slug":"sabc-wants-to-can-prime-time-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/141795\/sabc-wants-to-can-prime-time-news\/","title":{"rendered":"SABC wants to can prime time news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SABC has <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/183422-etv-to-cancel-prime-time-news-icasa-hearing.html\">followed E-tv\u2019s lead<\/a><\/strong> and is requesting that its licence conditions be amended to remove the requirement to broadcast news in prime time.<\/p>\n<p>DA shadow Minister of Communications\u00a0Phumzile Van Damme said the broadcaster made the request\u00a0during a recent public hearing at ICASA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe DA will voice its objection to this when ICASA appears before the Portfolio Committee on Communications tomorrow,\u201d said Van Damme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will also request that ICASA spell out its position on the canning of prime time news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Van Damme said all free-to-air broadcasters, and in particular the SABC as South Africa\u2019s public broadcaster, have an obligation in terms of the Electronic Communications Act to facilitate news and educational programming in the national interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is logical that this must happen during prime time, when most South Africans are watching TV.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the SABC\u2019s own admission, over 12 million people watch TV during prime time, with 79% of adults in urban areas relying on free-to-air television as the most regular source of news. Only 1 in 10 rely on social media as a news source.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the SABC<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/139383\/radio-is-now-mine-hlaudi-tells-sabc-staff\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Radio is now mine, Hlaudi tells SABC staff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/138477\/sabc-suffers-net-loss-of-r411-million\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SABC suffers R411 million net loss<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SABC has followed E-tv\u2019s lead and is requesting that its licence conditions be amended to remove the requirement to broadcast news in prime time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":141797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[25,667],"class_list":["post-141795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-active","tag-sabc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141799,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141795\/revisions\/141799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}