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Friday, November 19, 2021

#WeAreToonz: Could The Possible SABC Children Channel Be A Spinoff To SABC Education?

After a year, SABC Education revised their schedule to further bolster their offering with reruns of Skeem Saam making their way to the channel and themes being broadcast daily.

What started out as another Mindset transitioned to cater for SABC 1-3 audiences with a mini kids slot taking up a portion of the schedule reducing the initial audience.

Evidently, SABC hoped to the Department Of Education would assist them in getting this channel off the ground. If they succeeded the lineup wouldn't have appeared the way it did.

Chances were they wouldn't be much channel space for all the programming seen on SABC 1-3 so SABC Children could have been the preschool counterpart that put the effort on children aged 2-14.

My hunch can be proven If you visit their former media accounts or download the Tuluntulu app, you see they're multilingual on top of promoting content already seen through SABC Education.

If this brand is fortunate enough to become a linear station. Don't be surprised if they act like that Mindset pop-up channel for a smaller demographic which launched in 2020.

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Friday, November 12, 2021

SABC Encore And SABC Children: The Final Test Dummies, Could These Be The Channels eMedia Investments And The SABC Failed To Launch On Openview?

It's been 9 months since SABC and eMedia Investments extended their agreement to include three additional channels and 19 radio stations on Openview and 4 months since the media has been awaiting more details on the channels.

The SABC and eMedia Investments promised to unveil more details about the other two channels coming to Openview before the end of June and several months have pass with no update.

One of the two were speculated to be SABC Encore. When you look at the whole thing they've been mentioned or spotted by the media on several occasions like the radio interview or that funeral service.

Besides that, a channel registered under the name SABC Entertainment came up which was the original name for the Encore only for it to be removed in favour of the kiddies brand, SABC Children.

Now that kiddies has been merged with SABC Encore as seen below.

SABC offers three free-to-air channels which carry local and international programming ranging from dramas, soaps, reality, cartoons and news. So what I'm trying to get at here is they have plenty of entertainment channels.

Even though, it was mentioned that the two entertainment channels would carry content already seen on other channels they never stated it would cater for the same age group.

My logic here is that perhaps the two channels coming will be targeted and if so happens to be the two mentioned. The arrangement of the SABC channels will go as follows:

- SABC 1-3 remains catered for 18-49 so of course the lineup will recieve constant adjustments to appease that audience.
- SABC Encore will cater for the millenials who grew out of SABC 1-3. It could also be used as a history channel to document the lives of that age group as well as the stars.
- SABC Children which has been viewed as niche on SABC 1-3 in regards to timeslots will cater for 2-12/3/4 years olds.

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Thursday, September 16, 2021

We Are Toonz: Could DBE TV Be The Next Channel To Go Off Air On Openview?

Openview recently put up a new advert where you can see them promote their set of channels but interesting enough on their kids segment We Are Toonz adds Takalani Sesame to the offering.

Takalani Sesame is a product of the SABC and Sesame Workshop which broadcasts on SABC 1-3 but why is this show present while others were ignored?

SABC 1-3 is available under a must-carry clause while SABC Sport serves as an additional channel so it made sense to promote their sports offering.

Takalani Sesame does form part of a division for SABC Education which operates a 24 hour channel through DTT and TelkomOne. Is it possible that SABC Education will find it's way onto Openview likely as a replacement for DBE TV?

Through this advert, Openview lists every other channel except DBE TV from what was mentioned during the launch was that it's a pop-up channel which should have ended last year but didn't for some apparent reason.

SABC Education does offer similar content to DBE TV with the likes of Geleza Nathi assisting Grade 10-12 and Words And Numbers catered towards Grade 1-3.

SABC stated earlier this year they'd be rolling out two entertainment channels which usually consists of viewers aged 18-49 and SABC Education recently adjusted their schedule and now include religious and gospel shows which appeal to that audience.

SABC Children which hasn't been finalized as yet could potentially be the replacement if DBE TV goes off air since both channels cater toward the same audience.

Friday, August 20, 2021

New Channel Alert (Rumor): SABC Children Could Be In The Works

Earlier this year, I did a recap on SABC Children which is one of SABC's purposed channels for DTT which never came to light due to the poor management and the delayed switchover from analogue to digital television.

From what I remember, the channel is available as a digital channel on the Tuluntulu app alongside SABC Education which was there long before it was made available on DTT and TelkomOne.

Now there's a slight possibility that maybe the SABC plans to launch SABC Children which would serve as a complimentary channel to SABC Education as opposed to a rival.

Funny thing here is, SABC Entertainment might have been scrapped with SABC Encore still onboard which is probably for the best since they'd likely be following the MTV 80s and 90s brand which aired content from different timelines.

SABC Children joins SABC Parliament and SABC Encore as possible new channels from the SABC. Other channels SABC purposed in 2012 but never got the light of day include SABC Movies, SABC Health, SABC Music, SABC History, SABC 4 and SABC 5.

The odd thing about this is Go Digital SA has seemingly removed eMedia Investments set of channels ranging eMovies, eExtra and eToonz from the LyngSat area with e.tv being the sole channel there at the moment.

My estimated guess would be that SABC is cutting back on the expenses so they'll be adding their own channels to serve as placeholders for each brand.

SABC Children is probably replacing eToonz with SABC Encore replacing eExtra and SABC Movies replacing eMovies I mean it wouldn't make sense for it to be SABC Parliament.

With this in mind, it's seems very likely that the SABC plans to launch more channels as opposed to the second sports channel as well as the two long awaited entertainment channels for Openview.

Friday, May 7, 2021

SABC Children: Another Dream Journal For The SABC

Creators of top children's entertainment for SABC's TV channels, SABC Children was another one of SABC's upcoming channels for DTT back in 2012 which never came to be.

In 2015, SABC partnered up with Tuluntulu launched an online version of the brand from there viewers got to see what the channel was actually about and what it would offer.

SABC Children would have been multilingual like Kenya's Akilli Kids and cater towards children aged 2-12 offering a mix of local and international content making it one of the few SABC channels to offer foreign programming.

The programming would serve to entertain viewers but as mentioned earlier it would be available in different languages other than English. The schedule featured a large amount of local productions including The Magic Cellar, Roughing It Out, Challenge SOS, My Night and several YoTV productions.

Since this channel never came to be on DTT, SABC Education is currently distributing the local side of SABC Children knowing them they won't add the full catalogue only ones that hold educational value.

SABC Children joins the large list of dreams SABC had for DTT over the decade including SABC 4 and SABC 5, SABC Movies, 5 language based channels, parliamentary, health, music, history, SMME and interactive channel.

SABC launched their sport channel on OpenView with two additional channels set to follow in the coming months.

Friday, May 8, 2020

SABC Education: Description And Review

SABC launched their 6th long awaited channel SABC Education admist the pandemic to keep children learning through DTT, YouTube and SABC's platform.

The channel carries 21 programs currently and formerly seen on SABC 1-3 including One Day Leader S7, Inside The Baobab Tree S4, iSpani S8, Geleza Nathi S9, The Epic Hangout, Words And Numbers S8, Made In SA S5, 100% Youth S4, Hectic Nine-9 S9, Game Plan S1, Daily Thetha S2, The Magical World Of Luna Belle S3, 48 Hours S8, Xcellerate S2, Battle Of The Vs S1, Making Moves S8, It's For Life S9, TOMZ S11, Living Lands S9, Destination SA S5, Mapungubwe S1 and DBE Learning.

SABC CEO confirmed in an interview that they are negotiating with partners in regards to the addition of SABC Education for now the channel faces problems with regards to accessibility since most households can't afford to live stream lessons currently seen on the channel.

The channel's schedule format is similar to PBS Kids (DStv channel 313) except there's no animation or exclusive content - just another encore channel. The advantage is these repeats help those who missed out on an episode. Even though SABC has been overshadowed for many years, education has always been a part of the brand even though most people with pay-tv platforms moved on from SABC their programs have touched a lot of youth throughout the decade.

For those who were expecting to see series like Naruto, Ben 10 or A.N.T. Farm this is not the channel even though it's for kids they aren't educational. Before SABC had financial woes they plotted to launch 18 channels including a children (SABC Children) and an education channel (SABC Education). Judging by SABC Education this channel may be SABC's version of Mindset and since Uzalo and Skeem Saam are part of the brand it is going to be confusing on which station will air older seasons of the show since SABC Encore exists and if SABC Education is interested in adding those type of series with it being treated more like an accessory than a premium channel.

Friday, April 24, 2020

What Would SABC Education And SABC Children Be Today If They Got Their Standalone Channels

As some of you already know the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has been going through a ruff patch for nearly a decade. From being the dominant player in the free-to-air market into a debt flooded corporation.

Before that whole mess came into affect both SABC and e.tv plotted to launch their own STB which included growing the number of FTA channels while SABC decided to wait for digital migration to take effect, e.tv on the other hand went ahead and launched their STB becoming an even more dominant player in the market.

SABC made the mistake of waiting, part of that may have to do with the whole debate regarding the encryption of the STBs. Even if this platform were to arrive in 2020 it would be very difficult for them to make a huge impact if they want TV licence holders and the fact that OpenView has lured potential customers with the last option being streaming services like Showmax and Netflix makes it kind of difficult.

The channels SABC plotted to have were 2 regional type channels, a sports channel, a movie channel and education channel with majority of those plans scrapped for a sports channel along with language based channels which also got scrapped for sports yet again, education returns then you have a health channel again, a parliamentary channel and a history channel. So far SABC Encore and News are the only additional channels they've managed to launch through DStv with the over delayed sports channel on a test phase through DTT platforms.

Two years after Encore's arrival, SABC signed a deal with an African online platform nobody heard off called Tuluntulu. That supplied a variety of online channels this introduced SABC Education and Children.

SABC Education, judging by the name you already know this channel was set to be an educational channel by now this brand shouldn't be new to anyone if you watch Uzalo and Skeem Saam you would have seen this brand name at the end of the show. This channel would have been no different to encore with it's lineup having educational elements and consisting of old reality, lifestyle and drama series. Two years back, there was some negotiation regarding this channel with other organisations so maybe part of the channel will be treated as Mindset if it ever comes to life.

SABC Children, this youth channel is used for both local and international content except the local content is not part of SABC Education and since SABC is staying true to their roots the kids lineup more likely consisted of American animated series dubbed in other South African languages. This would have been one of the few SABC channels with international programming.

Due to the pandemic, it's possible that SABC Education will materialize it's the only channel along with SABC Sports I can see a future off with the rest they kind seem like another future failed experiment. Even with e.tv they launched several of their own channels only to scrap some of them.

SABC Education and SABC Movies aren't bad ideas they have enough content in their vault for these channels with SABC Sports it's kind of complicated due to the pandemic and the last time I saw it on the DTT platforms it was being used for old matches.

Out of all the imaginary channels SABC plots to launch SABC Education and Movies are the only channels I can see on DStv the rest seem like an absolute failure to me and since MultiChoice signed a deal with Mindset for a spin-off channel it's possible they'll sign a deal with SABC for an education channel which SABC has been trying to get up and running.

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