Marc Schwinges, Deputy Chair of the South African Screen Federation (SASFED) talks about the importance of content at an SOS, IAJ, Media Monitoring Africa and FXI event on digitial broadcasting.
The SABC is celebrating the life of Hugh Tracey, an ex-SABC employee who founded the International Library of African Music in 1954. He collected sound recording of African music from the 1930s to the 1960s. This is the kind of developmental work a public broadcaster should be involved in!
SABC management is involved in tough negotiations with SportFive for the rights to screen soccer matches.
SAPA reports that the South African Football Association was “extremely disappointed” with the SABC’s failure to broadcast the fixture between Bafana Bafana and Sierra Leone in Free Town.
