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SABC Sport

SABC SPORT is a South African free-to-air sports television channel owned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).

The channel was operating for a while on DTT before expanding on other platforms. After its expansion, the channel is now among the top 10 most watched channels on Openview pulling over 1.4. million viewers.

In 1991, TV2, TV3 and TV4 (now SABC 1-3) were combined into a new service called CCV (Contemporary Community Values). A third channel was introduced known as TSS, or TopSport Surplus, TopSport being the brand name for the SABC's sport coverage, but this was replaced by NNTV (National Network TV), an educational, non-commercial channel, in 1993.

In 1996, SABC Sport was relaunched from its former branding. Its fundamental mission is to provide full FTA coverage of live sporting events, jam-packed highlights, fixtures, and live sports crosses on the SABC network and its own frequencies.

On 8 August 2003, Topsport was replaced by the current SABC Sport brand.

In 2012, The SABC planned to invest R732.7 million over the next two years to set up SABC Sport as a separate TV channel in South Africa on October 1. They also signed a multimillion rand deal with America's NBA to show full coverage on SABC Sport and selected matches to SABC 1 to prevent viewing disruption before missing the deadline.

In 2015, they scrapped their initial plans for DTT and downsized to 5 channels with one of them being SABC Sport.

In 2018, they scrapped their unfunded initial plans from 2015 and opted to launch another 4 unfunded channels being SABC Parliament, SABC History, SABC Education and SABC Health with SABC Sport still present in their portfolio.

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