With it comes, firstly and most controversially, the dropping of all the repeats of the local language bulletins that was seen on the channel late at night. This means that the SABC now too becomes another 24 hour news channel that broadcasts fully in Enlgish in a country with 11 official languages.
Also done away with are the one hour news bulletins like Newsroom with Eben Jansen. In its place are now bulletins that run for 3 hours on end:
Morning Live remains unchanged from 6am to 9am.
Newsroom is now a 3 hour brodcast from 9am, with Eben Jansen now no longer at the helm.
The 1pm business centric bulletin now gets absorbed into a 3 hour block called Midday Report, starting at 12pm.
At 3pm, News Today replaces what was previously PM News, though is basically the same format.
Question time remains unchanged at 5:30pm.
Though the tv guide says that Prime Time News is now 3 hours long from 6pm, Business Review with Francis Herd remains in the 6pm slot with Sports Live at 8:30pm.
Mahendra Raghunath returns to Your World, now live from 9pm to midnight, meaning that the SABC news channel has now gone from being the local news channel that went off air first at night to be being the channel that is still live the latest. More live news is never a bad thing.
This also means that the SABC News channel now trumps both ANN7 and eNCA in the shear amount of live news seen on the channel.
The channel has also reworked basically all of their weeked magazine shows, adding new ones, cutting others and now also showing repeats of Special Assignment nearly a week after it airs on SABC3.
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