South African Broadcasting Corporation, also known as SABC, is a state-owned enterprise headquartered in South Africa, founded in 1936, and employing approximately 6710 individuals. The organization reported $288.6M in revenue as of 2025 and functions as a tier 1 media tech buyer. The company specializes in broadcast television and radio, operating as a public broadcaster and the largest broadcasting enterprise on the African continent. Established with its headquarters in Auckland Park, Johannesburg, it operates as a public entity under the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies, legally mandated to inform, educate, and entertain the public. Structured into separate Public Broadcasting (PBS) and Public Commercial (PCS) divisions to balance civic mandates with commercial viability, the SABC operates a multi-platform media grid that includes 5 television channels (SABC 1, SABC 2, S3, SABC News, and SABC Sport), 18 national and regional radio stations broadcasting across all 11 official languages, and its SABC+ over-the-top digital streaming platform. The organization relies on a hybrid financial framework—primarily driven by commercial advertising, which accounts for over 80% of its revenue, and supplemented by public TV license collections and state funding—to manage its operations serving audiences both domestically and across neighboring regional borders.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is aggressively employing debt collectors to pursue outstanding TV license fees, as only two in ten households with a television are current with payments, leaving the broadcaster owed billions. Separately, the SABC announced on June 30 that its free streaming platform, SABC Plus, significantly surpassed its user registration goal, reaching 2.15 million users by the end of the fourth quarter of the 2025/26 financial year. This figure far exceeded its annual target of 1.4 million, a detail revealed during a parliamentary presentation on June 26, where CEO Nomsa Chabeli discussed the entity's third- and fourth-quarter performance.
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South African Broadcasting Corporation offers 18 products in the media and telecoms services industry. South African Broadcasting Corporation's product portfolio comprises of media and TV services and broadcast television and radio.
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South African Broadcasting Corporation's revenues were less than $500M in 2025. Caretta Research has split South African Broadcasting Corporation's revenue into 4 different product categories, the largest of which is linear (national channel groups). For full access to South African Broadcasting Corporation's revenue breakdown subscribe to Caretta Portal.
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South African Broadcasting Corporation currently holds 22 broadcasting rights for sports competitions including winter sports, netball, basketball, multi-sport, rugby union, combat sports, soccer | association football, cricket and motorsports.
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