{"id":224140,"date":"2018-02-08T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=224140"},"modified":"2018-02-08T13:13:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T11:13:08","slug":"6-things-you-can-expect-from-ann7s-replacement-news-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/224140\/6-things-you-can-expect-from-ann7s-replacement-news-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"6 things you can expect from ANN7&#8217;s replacement news channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice South Africa has issued an open invitation to anyone interested bidders for its proposed new 24-hour black-owned news channel.<\/p>\n<p>The bid follows the January <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/222367\/multichoice-is-dropping-ann7-and-will-replace-it-with-a-new-black-owned-news-channel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcement<\/a> <\/strong>that Multichoice will be dropping the Gupta-linked ANN7 news channel from its channel bouquet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This invitation is only to register an intention to bid, so MultiChoice can assess the level of interest,&#8221; it said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A further, formal invitation to submit bids with details of the process and further guidelines will be shared in mid February.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As part of the bid&#8217;s consideration, Multichoice also outlined six requirements that the new channel should meet.<\/p>\n<p>These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be a South African, predominantly English news channel that takes into account the history, diversity of cultural background, languages and socio-economic circumstances in South Africa.<\/li>\n<li>Broadcast 24 hours per day.\u00a0Provide anchor- based, live broadcasts in the style of Al Jazeera, CNN, Sky News, ENCA, SABC News and others.<\/li>\n<li>Specifically focus on national, regional, local and African news, actuality, current affairs and sport with some focus on international affairs.<\/li>\n<li>Be owned, managed and operated by an independent Black South African owned entity.<\/li>\n<li>Focus on training and development of news and broadcast industry personnel.<\/li>\n<li>Be independent, non-partisan, unbiased and critical &#8211; MultiChoice will have no editorial control or ownership.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The channel will be widely distributed on DStv packages, and will also receive funding from MultiChoice and other sources, the media group said.<\/p>\n<p>Interested parties can register their intention to bid <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.multichoice.co.za\/news-channel-bid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/222367\/multichoice-is-dropping-ann7-and-will-replace-it-with-a-new-black-owned-news-channel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Multichoice is dropping ANN7 \u2013 and will replace it with a new black-owned news channel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multichoice has outlined six requirements that it expects the new news channel to meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":47292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[26,1253],"class_list":["post-224140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-headline","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224140","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=224140"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224148,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224140\/revisions\/224148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}