News24 | PODCAST | The Lead: After nearly 50 years of SA TV, can SABC, DStv live on?

As MultiChoice celebrates its 30th birthday this week, and the SABC gasps for air, The Lead takes a hard look at the local television industry’s current situation: critical but barely stable.

South Africa has been watching television for almost half a century. Yet with the SABC’s finances in the red, DStv haemorrhaging subscribers over its prices, while streamers stream in, we ask: what’s next for Mzansi’s traditional TV industry?

We change channels to TV trade journo Thinus Ferreira in this edition of The Lead.

Later, the Patriotic Alliance heralds the return of the so-called Sushi King to his Jozi throne.

Finally, we reflect on early 1994’s teething problems with “On This Day in SA History”.

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