SABC Sport's general manager Gary Ruthbone held an interview with SAfm Radio on Monday to discuss about the Chief-Wydad games.
Within that interview, he also mentioned that the SABC plans to have two sports channels at some point and are looking to possibly revive SABC Encore.
SABC Sport is currently viewable on Openview, TelkomONE and SABC's DTT platform. For some reason it's not available on any pay-tv platform alongside SABC Education.
It wouldn't be surprising if two supposed sports channels used the numbering system and format like ESPN and were to be referred as SABC Sport 1 (the current SABC Sport channel) and SABC Sport 2.
SABC Encore lasted about 5 years on DStv after the platform decided it wasn't worth the value and killed it for about a year now and SABC mentioned this revival a year ago and it's interesting that they're still considering it now that they plan to launch their own streaming service.
Perhaps Encore will be one of the two long awaited entertainment channels SABC promised to launch on Openview alongside SABC Education (maybe). Then there's chances that we could see two other channels and Encore will just join the list of SABC's dream channels.
Recently, a proposal made by ICASA grants SABC the rights to negotiate carriage fees (not TV licence) with pay-tv platforms. With that in mind, it's possible that some channels (SABC 2/3) may disappear and other channels come in their place.
Update: SABC is rumoured to unveil the channels between the 10th to 15th of July.
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I'm waiting for 2 new channels: SABC News, Encore
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