Another AFCON tournament means yet another schedule shuffle for the SABC's free to air channels, affecting the domestic langauge news bulletins, again.
The Afrikaans news bulletin, which has slowly been rebuilding its audience in the 7:30pm slot for the past few months now moves an hour earlier to 6:30pm, competing directly with SABC3's English news bulletin and etv's eNews Direct for audience share. The drop in viewers expected for the Afrikaans news bulletin won't be too bad as its lead-in, 7de Laan, now moves to the 6pm slot (which in itself is a slot on SABC2 that has struggled terribly in the past no matter what gets placed there).
The Sotho news bulletin, which was brought earlier a while ago due to viewer complaints about waiting too long for the news, now goes back to a later timeslot, 8pm, where it will compete with ratings giant, Generations, on SABC1.
These changes come into effect from Monday, 6 February after the conclusion of the AFCON tournament.
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