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TV Media Research Analyst Johannesburg

Soweto TV doubles broadcast footprint

20 Jun 2011

From Youth Day 2011, Soweto TV has increased its free-to-air broadcasting Gauteng footprint with a high power, 360 degree antenna, increasing range of the previous Bop TV transmitter. It is now accessible to viewers in Heidelberg, Benoni, Springs, Nigel, Tembisa, Pretoria, Vanderbijlpark, Vereeniging and Sasolburg.

Murphy Morobe, former Soweto June 16 youth leader and chairman of the station's board, said, "This is another milestone. With greater Gauteng now within our reach, we must invest in content that has relevance for each and every locality in which the channel can be viewed."

According to the AMPS 2010, the station has more than 1.7 million viewers. It is also screened on Channel 150 on DStv.

Murphy Morobe

It was first granted a special events licence in 2005, when it broadcast for ten days. It became the first community station to receive a 7-year licence from ICASA. "Since July 2007, the station has been constantly on air for 24 hours a day, 7 days per week," says founding member Tsepo Thafeng.

"The role it plays within the Soweto community has not changed," says Wandi Nzimande, executive producer of the station. "Our role as a channel remains the same: More real TV, to show more real faces and to hear more real voices. The best television is telling what is happening to me today and this exactly what we intend doing."