Parliamentary officals met with the South African National Editors' Forum (SANEF), the Press Gallery Association (PGA) and all majpr broadcasters (SABC, eTV, ANN7 and radio group Primedia) to discuss the broadcast feed of the National Assembly ahead of the February 12th State of the Nation Address and the parliamentary year.
The move comes a few months after concerns were raised over the intermittent 'feed cutting' that occurred whenever things got heated in parliament, which happened more frequently once newcomers, the EFF joined the National Assembly.
The meeting agreed that Sanef will make a written submission motivating parliament to review its policies.
These actual policies, framework and constitutional obligations were outlined at the meeting.
Also announced at the meeting was that the actual broadcast equipment inside the National Assembly has been upgraded, which is a welcomed announcement considering the less than stellar picture quality of the feed, most visably that the feed is broadcast in the old 4:3 'square' aspect ratio and not the more modern 16:9 'letterbox' ratio that the news channels, and most channels not showing old tv shows, are broadcasting in. The SABC reports that "the infrastructure will enable parliament to provide greater variety of audio visual feed." [whatever that means]
(h/t News24)
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