It is easy to forget that amid the continuous launches of new, consolidated direct to consumer OTT platforms, there are still a lot of key media players outside of the West that have yet to make the leap into streaming. One such stakeholder is the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), which has just issued a 73-page request for proposal (RfP) from vendors to help it build a streaming service. For SABC, the platform cannot come soon enough, as the broadcaster currently faces pitiful ratings and pricing disputes with its linear transmission vendor, Sentech. SABC has dictated that any bidding vendors must attend an online briefing session next week, with all final proposals to be submitted by mid-January 2022. This RfP…