SABC Plus one million users’ registration lauded

The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies has congratulated the public broadcaster, the SABC on the growth of its Over-The-Top (OTT) streaming platform, SABC Plus that has exceeded the one million registered users in April.

The platform offers audiences access to the SABC’s 19 radio stations, SABC 1, SABC 2, S3, the 24-hour News Channel, as well as the SABC Sport Channel.

The department says the achievement will strengthen the public broadcaster’s competitiveness and financial viability.

Department’s spokesperson Tlangelani Manganyi says, “The department’s Director-General Ms Nonkqubela Jordan-Dyani has described the growth of this digital platform as one of the department’s drive to encourage the consumption of media content on digital platforms rather than the dependence on outdated traditional analogue transmission. And further bodes well for the public broadcaster as a national asset to be competitive and financially viable.”