e.tv News & Sport (also known as eNews and Sport or simply News and Sport) was a South African

free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscri ...

news News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different Media (communication), media: word of mouth, printing, Mail, postal systems, broadcasting, Telecommunications, electronic communication, or through the te ...

and

sports Sport is a physical activity or game, often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in ...

channel created and owned by

e.tv e.tv (commonly referred to on-air as e) is the first and only privately owned free-to-air television station in South Africa. Founded in 1998, the company is headquartered in Cape Town. It is the fifth terrestrial television channel in the ...

's eMedia Investments. Previously named OpenNews, it was the second news channel created by eMedia, ironically being the rival of its sister channel

eNCA eNCA, also known as eNews Channel Africa, is a 24-hour television news broadcaster owned by e.tv that focuses on African stories and events. Launched in June 2008, the channel is South Africa's first and most-watched 24-hour news service. Th ...

History

eMedia launched OpenNews as a response to Openview viewers' high demand for a local news channel. Although eMedia already owns a 24-hour

, the channel is exclusively produced for DStv and

BBC World News BBC News is an international English-language pay television channel owned by BBC Global News Ltd. – a subsidiary of BBC Studios – and operated by the BBC News division of the BBC. The network carries news bulletins, documentaries, an ...

(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 TRT Global, previously named TRT World, is a Turkish public broadcaster which broadcasts in English 24 hours a day and is operated by the TRT and based in the Ulus quarter of Ankara. It provides worldwide news and current affairs focusing on ...

China Global Television Network China Global Television Network (CGTN) is one of three branches of state-run China Media Group and the international division of China Central Television (CCTV). Headquartered in Beijing, CGTN broadcasts news in multiple languages. CGTN is u ...

France 24 France 24 ( in French) is a French state-owned publicly funded international news television network based in Paris. Its channels, broadcast in French, English, Arabic and Spanish, are aimed at the overseas market. Based in the Paris suburb ...

and some local documentaries. On 5 August 2019, the channel, along with the e.tv news bulletins, was renamed 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. On 22 February 2022, a source named "TV with Thinus" reported that eMedia would shut down e.tv News and Sports by the end of March due to the result that it wasn't viable.TV with Thinus
eMedia to shut no longer viable etv News and Sports channel and axe 45 workers
23 February 2022. eMedia confirmed on its Twitter page on 31 March 2022 that the network shut down at midnight on that day.

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