e.tv News

News and Sports

Current logo used since 2019
Country	South Africa
Network	e.tv
Programming
Language(s)	English
Picture format	16:9 (576i SDTV), 16:9 (1080i HDTV)
Ownership
Owner	eMedia Investments
Sister channels	eToonz eMovies eExtra eMovies Extra e.tv eNCA eReality
History
Launched	19 November 2018; 3 years ago (19 November 2018)
Former names	OpenNews (2018 - 2019)
Availability
Satellite
Openview	Channel 120

News and Sports is a South African free-to-air digital satellite television news and sports channel created and owned by e.tv's eMedia Investments.^[1] Previously named OpenNews, it is the second news channel created by eMedia, ironically being the rival of its sister channel eNCA.^[2]

History[]

eMedia launched OpenNews as a response to Openview viewers high demand for a local news channel. Although eMedia already owns a 24-hour eNCA, the channel is exclusively produced for DStv and BBC World News (which is on both platforms) did not satisfy the viewers' needs for local news. The channel was launched at 17:00 CAT and used to broadcast local news from 17:00 CAT to 23:00 CAT Monday to Friday. The broadcasting time was later reserved and now shows local news from 16:00 CAT until 19:30 CAT with the rest of the hours meant for international news partners such as TRT World, China Global Television Network, France 24 and some local documentaries.

On 5 August 2019, the channel, along with the e.tv news bulletins, were renamed to e.tv news.

Later that year, the channel started showing Sports and used the e.tv Sport logo before becoming News & Sport. Thereafter the channel was also made available on Viu.

References[]

External links[]

• Official website

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