An interim SABC board will have the support of independent television producers, the Television Industry Emergency Coalition (TVIEC) said on Saturday.

"The TVIEC pledged to support and co-operate with the interim SABC board to ensure that the public broadcaster is stabilised and the crisis resolved," said the organisation in a statement.

It said a meeting between the coalition and Communications Minister Siphiwe Nyanda was held on Friday.

"The TVIEC outlined the continued failure of the SABC to pay producers and the impact of the SABC's immediate halt on procuring new content.

"The TVIEC is of the opinion that the independent production sector is under threat and that steps need to be taken to protect the sector."

The coalition said the minister noted it was in the government's interest to see the sector grow, especially as it created jobs.

"He stated that the sector is seen as a core player in digital convergence which will see increasing demands for local content."

The TVIEC is made up of the Independent Producers Organisation, the SA Screen Federation, the Producers Alliance, the Documentary Filmmakers Association, the Writers Guild of SA and the Creative Workers Union.

On Friday, then Acting President Kgalema Motlanthe signed the presidential minute officially dissolving the SABC board.

This will allow Parliament to proceed with the process of appointing an interim board for the public broadcaster.

This week the National Assembly's communications committee finalised the list of names for the five-member interim board to be recommended for appointment by Zuma.

These include former MTN executive Irene Charnley, Unisa academic Phillip Mtimkulu, media expert Libby Lloyd, advocate Leslie Sedibe and former communications committee member Suzanne Vos.

The Assembly is expected to approve the list on Tuesday.

On Monday just over half of the SABC workforce is expected to go on a union-led strike over a wage dispute.

The Media Workers Association of SA (Mwasa) and Communication Workers' Union members were expected to begin lunch time pickets, go slows and work to rule where they will only be doing their duties as per their job description. An overtime ban would also be in place. A march to regional offices of the SABC is planned for Friday followed by a stay-away the following week.

The wage dispute is about a 12.2 percent multi-term pay offer the SABC was supposed to have implemented in April which was then revised by them to 8.5 percent.

Commenting on Friday on reports that the union would be asking production houses to withhold delivering their programmes to the SABC in solidarity, CWU general secretary Gallant Roberts said: "We will be looking at organisations (like these)... to see if we can amass some support from them."

Sapa