As expected, ANN7, eNCA, SABC News, Parliamentary Service and CNBC Africa will all be carrying Jacob Zuma's State of the Nation Address live tonight at 7pm.
Build up starts before then with eNCA's coverage anchored from Cape Town by Iman Rappetti and Ursula from Top Billing on the Red Carpet, along with live crossings to Power FM as they listen to call ins from various listeners.
SABC News has Leanne Manas and Vuyo Mvoku anchoring from their Parliamentary studios in Cape Town.
ANN7 has Hajra Omarjee on the scene, along with other reporters, though they will not be as in depth as before.
Uncut coverage will, as always, be provided on the Parliamentary Service, DStv 408, if you okay with below par picture and sound quality.
CNBC Africa will be providing live coverage from 7pm-9pm..
Ann7, SABC News and eNCA are all streaming coverage live on their websites, or Youtube channels
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Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Tuesday, 20 May 2014
All News Channel Plan Coverage of First Sitting of Parliament
As the antiscipation around the first sitting of Parliament draws nearer tomorrow, all news channels have revealded their intentions to cover the event live.
All three will cover the events live from 10:30am, along with the president speaking at about 2pm.
eNCA is planning inserts and live crossings throughout the morning.
ANN7 will have senior political reporter Hajra Omarjee reporting.
SABC News will be on location as they usually are from their parliamentary studio.
As usual, if you want to see the view from parliament uninterrupted, the best place to do so would be the Parliamentary Service on DStv channel 408 (Its a disgrace that this channel is not available on all satellite plaforms in the country), though their picture quality is known not to be up to standard.
All three will cover the events live from 10:30am, along with the president speaking at about 2pm.
eNCA is planning inserts and live crossings throughout the morning.
ANN7 will have senior political reporter Hajra Omarjee reporting.
SABC News will be on location as they usually are from their parliamentary studio.
As usual, if you want to see the view from parliament uninterrupted, the best place to do so would be the Parliamentary Service on DStv channel 408 (Its a disgrace that this channel is not available on all satellite plaforms in the country), though their picture quality is known not to be up to standard.
Monday, 10 February 2014
State of the Nation Coverage Plans for eNCA, eTV, SABC News, SABC2, CNBC Africa and ANN7
This Thursday, the 13th of February is the annual State of the Nation Address by President Jacob Zuma. This is going to be an interesting one to watch as it is an election year and also to hear which issues he will address and how to address them.
For the first time ever, we have more than just one general news channel that will be covering the event (along with the fininacials). Since President Zuma made a smart move by moving the event to prime time where normal South Africans can see it, the channels really went all out with their coverage.
eNCA will cover the event throughout the week as part of their regulars cheduled program. Their actual coverage starts at 4pm in Cape Town at Parliament (immediately after the Cape Town broadcasted News Day). Senior anchors Iman Rapetti (NewsNight) and Andrew Barnes (NewsDay) will anchor live from Cape Town with the likes of Nikiwe Bikitsha contributing. This is Andrew's umpteenth SONA considering that he is Cape Town based, with it being Iman's second, after last year. Before that Nikiwe was the female anchor but could not last year due to her studying (I still cannot see how those studies benefitted her career). Jeremy Maggs usually does a review panel from Joburg at 9pm.
eTV will also broadcast the address from 7pm to 8:30pm. As such both their soaps (Rhythm City and Scandal, respectively) will broadcast from 6pm, pre empting the 6pm Sotho bulletin.
EDITORS COMMENTARY: I remember last years state of the Nation address coverage on eTV and eNCA quite well. It was Valentines Day, the same day Oscar Pistorius murdered his girlfriend. As such eNCA really wanted to gain interest from an international audience who they just recently reached through Sky in the UK and LiveStation online. They did this through providing rolling coverage of the event with great repetition anchored by Deborah Patta with input from the highly talented Karyn Maughn. This coverage did not even mention the SONA which happened at the same time. The SONA address was covered on eTV, but because they only wanted to show it until 8:30pm and Zuma stopped talking at about 8:25, they just wrapped up, wasting the resources that were brought to Cape Town including anchors, reporters and analysts.
It goes without saying that the public broadcaster will cover the even live as well. Coverage begins at 5pm on the SABC News Channel (DStv 404), repeated at midnight. This will be a full team effort and ends at 9pm. This also makes things interesting to see what will broadcast on SABC 3 at 6:30pm which is usually a simulcast with the SABC News coverage at that hour and also that some talents used for the 6:30pm broadcast will be used for SONA. At 9pm a sports review broadcast, which will be pre empted at 8:30pm will be broadcast at 9pm before returning to regularly scheduled programming. This is an odd choice considering that a more appropriate Business Report with Francis Herd is also being pre empted, but wont be shown.
Of course SONA coverage will be shown on SABC 2 as well, from 6pm to 8:30pm, shifting that evening's 7de Laan to a Friday double bill. At 8:30pm we have fifteen minute bulletins in Afrikaans and then Sotho back to back.
ANN7 will be broadcasting the event live as well. it is not clear whether they will broadcast from location but will indeed have a few reporters there. Those likely working the even include Chantal Rutter Dros and analyst Hajra Omarjee.
The Financial Networks will also be providing live coverage.
CNBC Africa has live coverage for 2 hours from 7pm.
Summit TV is unclear at this moment.
Spoilt for choice indeed, but if you prefer the speech and no fluff and analysis, you can of course get the live and raw feed with no flashy anything or fancy editing on the Parliamentary Service (DStv 408, surprised it is not on StarSat yet). This is where you go if you want your coverage anchored by the speaker of the house and not some journalist.
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For the first time ever, we have more than just one general news channel that will be covering the event (along with the fininacials). Since President Zuma made a smart move by moving the event to prime time where normal South Africans can see it, the channels really went all out with their coverage.
eNCA will cover the event throughout the week as part of their regulars cheduled program. Their actual coverage starts at 4pm in Cape Town at Parliament (immediately after the Cape Town broadcasted News Day). Senior anchors Iman Rapetti (NewsNight) and Andrew Barnes (NewsDay) will anchor live from Cape Town with the likes of Nikiwe Bikitsha contributing. This is Andrew's umpteenth SONA considering that he is Cape Town based, with it being Iman's second, after last year. Before that Nikiwe was the female anchor but could not last year due to her studying (I still cannot see how those studies benefitted her career). Jeremy Maggs usually does a review panel from Joburg at 9pm.
eTV will also broadcast the address from 7pm to 8:30pm. As such both their soaps (Rhythm City and Scandal, respectively) will broadcast from 6pm, pre empting the 6pm Sotho bulletin.
EDITORS COMMENTARY: I remember last years state of the Nation address coverage on eTV and eNCA quite well. It was Valentines Day, the same day Oscar Pistorius murdered his girlfriend. As such eNCA really wanted to gain interest from an international audience who they just recently reached through Sky in the UK and LiveStation online. They did this through providing rolling coverage of the event with great repetition anchored by Deborah Patta with input from the highly talented Karyn Maughn. This coverage did not even mention the SONA which happened at the same time. The SONA address was covered on eTV, but because they only wanted to show it until 8:30pm and Zuma stopped talking at about 8:25, they just wrapped up, wasting the resources that were brought to Cape Town including anchors, reporters and analysts.
It goes without saying that the public broadcaster will cover the even live as well. Coverage begins at 5pm on the SABC News Channel (DStv 404), repeated at midnight. This will be a full team effort and ends at 9pm. This also makes things interesting to see what will broadcast on SABC 3 at 6:30pm which is usually a simulcast with the SABC News coverage at that hour and also that some talents used for the 6:30pm broadcast will be used for SONA. At 9pm a sports review broadcast, which will be pre empted at 8:30pm will be broadcast at 9pm before returning to regularly scheduled programming. This is an odd choice considering that a more appropriate Business Report with Francis Herd is also being pre empted, but wont be shown.
Of course SONA coverage will be shown on SABC 2 as well, from 6pm to 8:30pm, shifting that evening's 7de Laan to a Friday double bill. At 8:30pm we have fifteen minute bulletins in Afrikaans and then Sotho back to back.
ANN7 will be broadcasting the event live as well. it is not clear whether they will broadcast from location but will indeed have a few reporters there. Those likely working the even include Chantal Rutter Dros and analyst Hajra Omarjee.
The Financial Networks will also be providing live coverage.
CNBC Africa has live coverage for 2 hours from 7pm.
Summit TV is unclear at this moment.
Spoilt for choice indeed, but if you prefer the speech and no fluff and analysis, you can of course get the live and raw feed with no flashy anything or fancy editing on the Parliamentary Service (DStv 408, surprised it is not on StarSat yet). This is where you go if you want your coverage anchored by the speaker of the house and not some journalist.
Sunday, 15 December 2013
Mandela Funeral Coverage
Just a rundown of what today's funeral coverage was like:
With the travesty of the memorial behind us, very few international broadcasters made a big deal of Mandela's funeral.
CNN didn't have any big names in the country. They didn't even carry the proceedings as in depth as the memorial, instead opting for for analysis. The coverage wasn't simulcast between their two channels either.
BBC World News and Sky News carried it live.
Al Jazeera covered it more in depth than they did with the memorial.
NDTV, who carried a clearly internet quality feed of eNCA with the memorial had absoultely nothing on it this time around.
CCTV News had quite a decent amount of coverage considering their nature.
RT didn't seem to cover it at all.
Now for the fun: The Local Broadcasters:
SABC simulcasted the FULL service across all their channels (SABC 1, SABC 2, SABC 3, SABC News) with a sign language interpreter onscreen. (They also had a more hand-in-glove relationship with the pool feed as they produced it.) I was surprised to see Mahindra being the one to pick things up on the tail end of the service and not someone that has been more intergral in their coverage. The SABC also had their commendable programs like SABC 1 Live (Hosted by Supersport Presenter Robert Marawa who called SABC 1 his 'spiritual home' which I am sure does not create a desirable response from the guys at Supersport, and Idols Judge Unathi). They also had SABC 3 Live, which at certain points in the week were presented by Gareth Cliff and also the former Morning Live presenter. Both shows originated out of the SABC Sports studio that had been customised for the occasion.
On eNCA, they constantly made it quite clear where they were broadcasting to: Our viewers on eNCA, on eTV, watching us on the Sky platform, on Sky News Australia (which I think they were proud of, this coverage lasted until 1 pm when it was quietly dropped from the list of greeted viewers), and online (interestingly, not naming the online platforms, which comprised of Youtube, enca.com and Livestation).
I was so surprised to see it was Joanne Josephs that anchored their coverage from the studio along with Justice Malala as the analyst. This is surprising considering that they opted to not use any 'senior anchors' for the role, though Iman Rappetti and Jeremy Maggs did special editions of Newsnight both Saturday and Sunday night (14 and 15 December, respectively). The most notable senior anchor missing from their coverage is Andrew Barnes that actually co anchored with Joanne Saturday morning, but was absent Sunday. Joanne worked from dawn at 6 am until 1pm, when Uveka Rangappa relieved her. In the Eastern Cape eNCA had Nikiwe Bikitsha and Dan Moyane, who though may not have been the most fun duo for regular things as I don't think they very exciting, they were extremely well presented and had a great deal of depth in their coverage. Another anchor, Gareth Edwards, who returned from m a long period of medical leave, ddi voice over inserts afterward.
ANN7 seemed to have carried the pool feed throughout, nothing exciting there.
CNBC Africa covered the event live from their studios, which they did not do for the memorial. I must say that while their effort is appreciated, it was not well done as their graphics were still presented in a way as if it was a business show: too eye catching, and a big gap below for tickers that were not there.
The Parliamentary service has started airing parliamentary sessions of when Mandela was president. I have reached out to them to ask if they have a specific schedule, but as their website states they will be away until the fourteenth of January.
The DStv Mandela tribute channel carried the SABC feed once more.
The AFP made the pool feed available to the public from their website.
Overall, I'm sad we will never see this level of effort from local stations ever again.
With the travesty of the memorial behind us, very few international broadcasters made a big deal of Mandela's funeral.
CNN didn't have any big names in the country. They didn't even carry the proceedings as in depth as the memorial, instead opting for for analysis. The coverage wasn't simulcast between their two channels either.
BBC World News and Sky News carried it live.
Al Jazeera covered it more in depth than they did with the memorial.
NDTV, who carried a clearly internet quality feed of eNCA with the memorial had absoultely nothing on it this time around.
CCTV News had quite a decent amount of coverage considering their nature.
RT didn't seem to cover it at all.
Now for the fun: The Local Broadcasters:
SABC simulcasted the FULL service across all their channels (SABC 1, SABC 2, SABC 3, SABC News) with a sign language interpreter onscreen. (They also had a more hand-in-glove relationship with the pool feed as they produced it.) I was surprised to see Mahindra being the one to pick things up on the tail end of the service and not someone that has been more intergral in their coverage. The SABC also had their commendable programs like SABC 1 Live (Hosted by Supersport Presenter Robert Marawa who called SABC 1 his 'spiritual home' which I am sure does not create a desirable response from the guys at Supersport, and Idols Judge Unathi). They also had SABC 3 Live, which at certain points in the week were presented by Gareth Cliff and also the former Morning Live presenter. Both shows originated out of the SABC Sports studio that had been customised for the occasion.
On eNCA, they constantly made it quite clear where they were broadcasting to: Our viewers on eNCA, on eTV, watching us on the Sky platform, on Sky News Australia (which I think they were proud of, this coverage lasted until 1 pm when it was quietly dropped from the list of greeted viewers), and online (interestingly, not naming the online platforms, which comprised of Youtube, enca.com and Livestation).
I was so surprised to see it was Joanne Josephs that anchored their coverage from the studio along with Justice Malala as the analyst. This is surprising considering that they opted to not use any 'senior anchors' for the role, though Iman Rappetti and Jeremy Maggs did special editions of Newsnight both Saturday and Sunday night (14 and 15 December, respectively). The most notable senior anchor missing from their coverage is Andrew Barnes that actually co anchored with Joanne Saturday morning, but was absent Sunday. Joanne worked from dawn at 6 am until 1pm, when Uveka Rangappa relieved her. In the Eastern Cape eNCA had Nikiwe Bikitsha and Dan Moyane, who though may not have been the most fun duo for regular things as I don't think they very exciting, they were extremely well presented and had a great deal of depth in their coverage. Another anchor, Gareth Edwards, who returned from m a long period of medical leave, ddi voice over inserts afterward.
ANN7 seemed to have carried the pool feed throughout, nothing exciting there.
CNBC Africa covered the event live from their studios, which they did not do for the memorial. I must say that while their effort is appreciated, it was not well done as their graphics were still presented in a way as if it was a business show: too eye catching, and a big gap below for tickers that were not there.
The Parliamentary service has started airing parliamentary sessions of when Mandela was president. I have reached out to them to ask if they have a specific schedule, but as their website states they will be away until the fourteenth of January.
The DStv Mandela tribute channel carried the SABC feed once more.
The AFP made the pool feed available to the public from their website.
Overall, I'm sad we will never see this level of effort from local stations ever again.
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