EBU facilitates Paralympics coverage
Fri, 12 Mar 2010
Forty-two hours of the Vancouver 2010 Paralympics (12 to 21 March) will be broadcast live to European viewers.Read More »
Shooting soaps at 360 degrees
Fri, 12 Mar 2010
Binneland Sub Judice, the new hour-long version of pay-TV broadcaster M-Net’s popular and long running daily soapie, Binnelanders, is being shot in sets atypical to that of traditional soapies.Read More »
Soap grows to one-hour format
Fri, 12 Mar 2010
As from 5 April, pay-TV broadcaster M-Net’s popular Afrikaans soapie, Binnelanders, will air from Mondays to Fridays for an hour from 6pm to 7pm.Read More »
Key animation starts on Florrie’s Dragons in Cape Town
Wed, 10 Mar 2010
Cape Town-based Clockwork Zoo has started key animation on a series that will be seen on Disney UK later this year. Florrie’s Dragons is a collaboration with one of the UK’s top pre-school content creators: Wish Films. Based onRead More »
Big bucks for talent search
Wed, 10 Mar 2010
With the help of Ford South Africa, pay-TV broadcaster M-Net has secured a R500,000 cash prize for the winner of the sixth season of the hit reality show, Idols.Read More »
Ikon doccy series back on TV
Wed, 10 Mar 2010
As from 14 March, SABC2 will start broadcasting the new Ikon South Africa short documentary series on Sundays at 9pm.Read More »
SABC signal pirated in Africa
Wed, 10 Mar 2010
According to the Independent Communications Authority (ICASA), the signal from public broadcaster SABC is being pirated in several countries in the sub-Saharan...Read More »
SABC appointment of O’Neil gets media grilling
Mon, 08 Mar 2010
Clare O’Neil may be the right person to oversee the hard hit SABC sales and marketing division but experts in the media sector and unions have criticised the procedures of her appointmentRead More »
Job cutting at SABC as part of turnaround strategy
Wed, 24 Feb 2010
“Massive challenges” lay ahead for public broadcaster SABC, the SABC board chairman Ben Ngubane reported on Tuesday 23 February at the parliamentary committee hearing on SABC’s turnaround strategy.Read More »
EBU covers Tour of Flanders
Fri, 05 Mar 2010
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has reached an agreement with Flanders Classics, the new organiser of the Tour of Flanders cycling race, to be its broadcast partner.Read More »
Acting GE: SABC Commercial Enterprises appointed
Fri, 05 Mar 2010
Public broadcaster SABC has appointed Ray Nkwe, currently SABC1 General Manager, as Acting Group Executive of its Commercial Enterprises division.Read More »
Global pay-TV on huge growth path
Fri, 05 Mar 2010
Market data from ABI Research predicts that there will be nearly 846 million pay-TV subscribers by 2014.Read More »
National soccer song
Thu, 04 Mar 2010
The low ranked South African national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, could do with all the local support it gets during its 2010 FIFA World Cup Campaign.Read More »