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Amidst a fog of selective outrage re #SABC TV licence issue, fueled by clickbait media that would be happy to see SABC closed down & sold off to private sector, the question of how to legitimately fund #PublicBroadcasting in a constitutional democracy has been ignored. A thread👇
#SABC is not the only public broadcaster in the world using a licence fee mechanism to part-fund public mandate programming. But the statute that governs this - the Broadcasting Act - is 21 years old & needs review. Hence its 1 of the issues posed in govt's draft White Paper. /2
The current law is based on now archaic notion of owning a "TV set" in a world where #SABC audio & AV content is now broadcast & streamed on multiple platforms, incl. analogue FM & TV, DTT, DTH, mobile apps, YouTube, Twitter, FB & on a sports portal sabcsportonline.co.za /3
