SABC 2 Distances Themselves From Anime With Inazuma Eleven Reduced From 5 To 2 Days

SABC 2 is a South African free-to-air channel catered towards families that operated by the public broadcaster. It is home to soaps Muvhango and formerly 7de Laan alongside other content such as Deal Or No Deal SA and Speak Out.

During the year, SABC 2 underwent a major restructure as part of the public broadcaster's endeavors of reinventing themselves and getting with the times. This has led to a reduction of Afrikaans content as the latter had been folded under SABC 3.

This wasn't the only endeavor SABC 2 had further minimized in the last months as Inazuma Eleven has moved an hour early from 17:00 to 16:00. Initially airing 5 days a week from Monday to Friday was reduced to Thursday and Friday being 2 days.

Based on the BBC show of the same name, Ready Steady Cook South Africa is a collaboration between Primedia Studios and the production company Rose and Oaks Media. They were also responsible for The Masked Singer South Africa on SABC 3.

This was the show SABC 2 had allocated at the 17:00 timeslot with 260 episodes having being commissioned. After SABC had redirected Deal Or No Deal SA from SABC 1 to 2 with Afrikaans news bulletin Nuus from SABC 2 to 3 the ratings fell flat.

Unlike the latter, we have to yet how Ready Steady Cook SA is performing ratings wise same with Inazuma Eleven. When DragonBall Super aired it was the top 5 watched show pulling 600,000 viewers so we can only assume these shows are only getting half.

As seen below ratings for DragonBall Super and a more recent ratings sheet with Ready Steady Cook SA nowhere in site:

If we had to guess the reason for anime's downfall on SABC 2 is likely due to existing competiton from Crunchyroll, YouTube and Netflix. Another being SABC 2's failure in consistency as shows Yu-Gi-Oh were sidelined by them for nearly a decade.

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