Regarding #DinnerForOne, if anyone in my timeline can hook me up with someone in 🇿🇦 #southafrica who can capture #SABC tv, I'd be very happy because that's the last of the foreign countries TV stations that are known to show the original version.

So far over the years I managed to catch it on 🇳🇴 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 🇫🇴 🇨🇭 🇦🇹 🇦🇺. I missed 🇬🇧 (who stopped showing it) and 🇪🇪 (which I fount on yt, but will try for again this year) 🇿🇦 TV doesn't stream freely, so that's the hardest to get.

Article highlights #SABC management's liberal allies in civil society; although it quotes an individual from the more critical #SaveFreeTV alliance, only her job affiliation is given. https://www.publicmediaalliance.org/will-south-africas-long-awaited-analogue-switch-off-still-go-ahead/

#SaveFreeTV
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RT @sutherla
South Africa - #SABC claims only 165,000 qualifying households have received government set-top boxes, out of 2.9 million. Nonetheless the @DtpsZA minister wanted to switch off analogue #broadcasting. https://twitter.com/TechCentral/status/1508695701953253377
https://twitter.com/sutherla/status/1508712864483360768

The concessions relate to the Bill of Rights & the constitutional mandate to act upon it. After #SABC started transforming from a state broadcaster to a public one, that process was reversed & its assets sold to WMC; after social grants transformed the lives of the poor, they...

Though dating back to #Assange's arrest, this clip is worth a look, as an example of #SABC coverage. But the good Prof gets one thing wrong: Manning didn't hack, she had full access in the line of work. https://youtu.be/E0IgKGQ7gmM

...namely the yard sale of #SABC archive usage rights to Multichoice (DSTV). The Carrim-continuity scenario would likely contain multiple locally-owned pay-TV channels, since the entry barrier would be low, as suitable STBs/decoders would already be in many homes.(2/2)