The 1pm hour is a popular hourbof news as people are on their lunchbreaks.
As such, the news channels had a packed 1 hour bulletin in the buildup to tonight's SONA speech by President Zuma.
Just before 1pm, ANN7 was the first news channel to break the news of chaos at an EFF Press Conference. Clement Manyathela reported byvtelephone from the scene.
They were followed by eNCA, who had a report, though no live crossing to someone on the ground.
Andrew Barnes co anchored News Day from parliament, with Bhavna Singh in studio (which is a reverse from what we had seen this whole week whereby Bhavna had been reporting from the Mining Indaba down the road at the Cape Town Convention Centre) .
Andrew introduced a report, and was then interviewed by Bhavna, highlighting things like security issues, noting that he had never seen this level of security ever before. (It is interesting to see that Bhavna was in studio as she herself is accredited to be in the parliamentary precinct)
Over on ANN7, Abigail Visagie hosted two analysts in studio, highlighting what to expect in the actual speech, focussing on economic issues and touching on energy issues.
This was then to be followed by an interview with the EFF's Andile Mngxitama, which would have been a major get for the channel, but, as ANN7 struggles to shake of their reputation of suffering rom difficulties, did not takeplace.
Luckily they improvised and had Clement Manyathela back on providing an update on the situation. Eventually, Andile was on air, but he did not provide any value.
Just before 1:30 pm (when the news on eTV ends), eNCA was first to actually air footage of what happened at the presse conference.
If the SABC News Channel is your channel of choice, you might not even.know today was the State of the Nation Address. They had theirbstandard business centric 1pm.bulletin and featured the SONA as if it was just any other story.
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