Following the successful launch of the SuperSport Schools streaming app in 2021, the school sport channel goes live on the World of Champions tomorrow.
The popular platform will run daily for 24 hours on DStv channel 216, broadcasting a variety of live, delayed and historical content that reflects the strong traditions and rivalries of South African school and youth sport.
Although the free app remains the primary core of SuperSport Schools, the new linear television option is an extension designed to satisfy at-home viewers.
Quite apart from the array of big-time sport lined up countrywide in the month to come, TV programming will include many gems found in archived content. Ahead of big derbies, for instance, historical past matches will be broadcast, building up the fervour that all historical showdowns generate.
There will also be a weekly ‘’Throwback Thursday’’ and ‘’Memory Monday’’, both nods to memorable achievements on school fields over the years.
THE LINEUP
Immediate focus for both streaming and broadcast will be on The KES Water Polo Festival, the Graeme College 150th festival, Spar hockey from KZN, the St Mary’s hockey festival, the St Andrew’s netball festival, Premier Interschools netball and rugby, the Border Rugby Day, KZN schools football and the Gauteng Development League (GDL).
The GDL is especially appealing and will include age group football matches across 34 weekends from March to November. Comprising 18 clubs and schools, including teams like Kaizer Chiefs, Mamelodi Sundowns and SuperSport United, plus schools like Rosina Sedibane from Centurion, they will compete in nine head-to-head fixtures across a number of age groups per week.
In addition to the legacy content to be found on the linear channel, the all-new SuperSport Schools vodcast (a podcast that contains video content) will be broadcast. It touches on a variety of school sport subjects and leans towards being entertaining and informative.
Given the wealth of extraordinary achievements that occur on a weekly basis, often in remote areas and small-town schools, the new channel will also seek to highlight these for viewers who may otherwise have missed them.
The channel goes live at 8am tomorrow and will be available to subscribers from Premium to Access.
ABOUT SUPERSPORT SCHOOLS
SuperSport Schools exists to grow school sport and get more sport stars to shine across the African continent by broadcasting the full South African schools sport story from the beginning. SuperSport Schools records, live-streams - and now broadcasts - school sport automatically (indoors and outdoors) so parents and others can watch the sport they care about most anywhere, anytime, live and on demand.
Schools throughout the country are encouraged to use the opportunity to showcase their sporting prowess on SuperSport Schools and users can download the SuperSport Schools app at no cost. For more information, access the SuperSport Schools website at www.supersportschools.com or use the email address contact@supersportschools.com