The SABC News Channel, DStv 404, has yet again made changes to the channel's schedule, this time being the late night hours that get a much needed shuffle, at least in my opinion.The main change that took effect this past Monday, October 14, was the shifting of its 11pm late night news program, Your World, to the 9pm hour on the lineup, effectively pushing the repeats of African-language news back by an hour.
The show also underwent some somewhat minor tweaks to coincide with the timeslot change. Firstly, and most strikingly, the show is now broadcast live instead of on a tape-delay as had been done previously.
The show also changed studios, dropping the studio that is used for most of the SABC News Channel's programming live Sports Live and Newsroom and instead now originates from the studio used for the African-language bulletins that are broadcast on SABC 1.
Another major change undertaken by the show is that it now has a new anchor, the same person that anchors the channel's News @ 8 programme.
This then means that yet again long time SABC news anchor, Mahendra Raghunath, will find himself without a news bulletin o anchor as Your World had previously been anchored by him during the week.
Overall, I feel this is very smart counter programming on the part of the SABC, the second most watched news channel in the country, to add live news in the 9pm not too long after eNCA, the most watched news channel in the country, completely dropped a live general news bulletin in the 9pm hour. This is a sure way of attracting viewers in that hour that would like to see local news but cannot find it anywhere else (ANN7 has Africa Tonight in the 9pm half-hour).
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