22 No. 37261 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24 JANUARY 2014 3.2.2 Growth and Outlook There has been considerable growth in the number of services available in most areas, particularly in the community broadcasting area. Other significant changes are the issuing of licences by ICASA for all SABC services (which prior to the Broadcasting Act operated under grandfathered licences and did not have detailed conditions) and for satellite subscription services. The SABC is licensed to offer three analogue television channels. One of the channels is licensed as a commercial service. Two additional regional public television services licences were issued to the SABC in 2005. The reach of SABC has been continously extended. More channels will be launched on the DTT. SABC launched a 24- hour news service on the DSTV platform with a promise that the news service will be available free-to-air on the launch of DTT. The SABC operates 18 radio stations including 15 public radio stations and 3 public commercial services. Radio XK broadcasting in in!Xu and KHWE launched in 2004. The SABC radio services cover all official languages. There is one free-to-air commercial terrestrial broadcaster that is privately owned, etv. The number of channels operated by etv will increase with the introduction of DTT. Two free-to-air Direct-toHome (DTH) services were launched in 2013. There is one terrestrial subscription television service and two satelliite subscription services. 15 commercial radio services operate in SA. No of services/titles 250 200 -- -- 150 Daily newspapers 100 - Pvlajor weeklies. =.<0 0 1991 2004 2002 2012 22 18 25 21 -,,, .22 11- 135 E.' 35 215 189 Dail. ne,.. = paper` Major ,...^ee I-lief Radic station` TV channels 25 34 _. Radio stations Tv' channels 25 3.2.3 Penetration and uptake In terms of reach, 6.16 million (12.3% of the population) do not have access to Radio service, 7.38 million people (14.7% of the population) do not have access to Analogue Television services, 4.15 million people (8.3% of the population) do not have access to any terrestrial broadcasting services. A total of 670 526 people (1.34% of the population) only have access to one television service. Substantial progress has been made with respect to expanding the analogue terrestrial television broadcast network from 60% of the 'population reach' in 1998 to over 91.7% population coverage in 2012. In the same year the public broadcaster's SABC 1 and SABC 2 were reported to each have population coverage of 91.2% and 92.5%, respectively with SABC 3 having 82.1% coverage. There remains a segment of the population which does not have access to television but this has been substantially reduced from 40% of population in 1998 (as reported in the White Paper) to less than 10% population coverage in 2012. 18 This gazette is also available free online at www.gpwonline.co.za