{"id":169923,"date":"2017-04-12T09:34:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T07:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=169923"},"modified":"2017-04-12T09:34:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T07:34:55","slug":"new-sabc-board-considers-scrapping-90-local-content-quota-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/169923\/new-sabc-board-considers-scrapping-90-local-content-quota-report\/","title":{"rendered":"New SABC board considers scrapping 90% local content quota: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">The new SABC board is taking action to scrap the widely ridiculed decision to make all broadcast\u00a0content 90% local, after it had \u201cundermined the entire business\u201d of the public broadcaster,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/thepost\" target=\"_blank\">The Post<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>newspaper<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>reports.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">According to the report, citing board member Krish Naidoo, a meeting was scheduled and overturning the decision was an item for discussion on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Naidoo said that should the board agree, the system would probably revert to the previous quota, which was 60% local content. He noted that this was due to the fact that the 90% local quota was never an official policy, meaning the board could reconsider it.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cIt impacted on the entire revenue stream. Both listeners and advertising dropped, likely as a consequence of 90:10,\u201d Naidoo said.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">He\u00a0emphasised that\u00a0the national broadcaster would still promote local artists wherever possible and that the company would continue to actively develop new local content.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\"><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/164857\/parliament-endorses-five-names-to-sabc-interim-board\/\" target=\"_blank\">Parliament endorses five names to SABC interim board<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new SABC board is taking action to scrap the widely ridiculed decision to make all broadcast content 90% local, after it had \u201cundermined the entire business\u201d of the public broadcaster, The Post newspaper reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":146703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-169923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169923","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169923"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169935,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169923\/revisions\/169935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}