The 5:30pm Question Time sees a bit of a format change, now originating from the main news set used for the english prime time news bulletin and, more importantly, airing live. This is for viewers to now phone in and ask questions on a show that has consistently been able to attract mainly big name political figures (though it is kind of annoying when the caller does not get straight to the question).
The 6:30pm Prime Time News has now been extended back to a 90 minute bulletin, now occupying the 7:30pm half hour as well (The 6pm Business Review with Francis Herd remains unchanged).
The Afrikaans news bulletin that aired at 7:30pm now falls away. However, the SABC is meeting viewers half way with this by changing the format of the long running Nuus Om 7 on SABC 2 to the double-anchored format that was used on the SABC News Channel and was apparently well received by viewers.
The rest of the evenings schedule remains largely unchanged with only the late night local language bulletins seeing a slight change in their schedule with the introduction of a repeat of the Afrikaans bulletin at midnight.
This is what is NOT happening:
If you have been reading Thinus Ferreira's TV With Thinus over the last few days, you would think the SABC has declared war on local language news because they have apparently cut the local language bulletins that aired on the SABC News Channel and replaced them with repeats of local language bulletins that aired on SABC 1 and SABC 2.
This is not the case as the local language bulletins that airs on the SABC News Channels have always been repeats and, with the exception of the Afrikaans bulletin, has never been live.
The guy is trying to spin a simple cutting of one Afrikaans bulletin into a total war on local languages, which is definitely not occuring.
Overall, very little changes with the exception of Question Time now airing live.
404 not 405
ReplyDeleteoops. thanks for that.
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