{"id":174277,"date":"2017-05-10T13:36:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T11:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=174277"},"modified":"2017-05-10T13:37:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T11:37:18","slug":"sabc-wants-you-to-get-a-tv-licence-for-your-pc-cellphone-and-tablet-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/174277\/sabc-wants-you-to-get-a-tv-licence-for-your-pc-cellphone-and-tablet-report\/","title":{"rendered":"SABC wants you to get a TV licence for your PC, cellphone and tablet: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SABC CEO James Aguma has indicated that the SABC wants the Broadcasting Act changed\u00a0so that South Africans will need to get a TV licence for their computers, cellphones and tablets, according to a report by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel24.co.za\/TV\/News\/sabc-wants-you-to-pay-a-tv-licence-for-your-computer-cellphone-and-tablet-20170510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Channel24<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at\u00a0parliament\u2019s portfolio committee on communications, \u00a0Aguma indicated that the SABC were budgeting for lower revenue from SABC TV licences this year, but that\u00a0by amending the\u00a0Broadcasting Act to make it mandatory for people to pay a TV licence for more devices they view content on, it would be able to make up for the decreased revenue.<\/p>\n<p>The current TV Licence fee is R265 per year and is a requirement for all devices sold in South Africa which can\u00a0receive a\u00a0television signal. This excludes devices such as PC monitors.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week the SABC and\u00a0Department of Communications indicated that they would soon be making an official funding request to National Treasury of close to R1 billion, to help pay outstanding bills.<\/p>\n<p>The high cost of local content quotas imposed by Hlaudi Motsoeneng is not sustainable and the board is currently reviewing the directive,\u00a0said\u00a0SABC interim board chairperson Khanyisile Kweyama.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/172703\/no-bailout-for-the-sabc-yet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No bailout for the SABC \u2013 yet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SABC CEO James Aguma has indicated that the SABC wants the Broadcasting Act changed so that South Africans will need to get a TV licence for their computers, cellphones and tablets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":131424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-174277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174277","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=174277"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174293,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174277\/revisions\/174293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}