Wed, 23 May 2012
SCREEN AFRICA EXCLUSIVE: Global satellite operator SES has opened an office in Johannesburg with newly appointed Africa head Ibrahima Guimba-Saidou at the helm. The office is situated at Montecasino and will complement two other SES offices in Africa one in Ghana and another to be opened in an East African city yet to be confirmed.
Wed, 23 May 2012
SES has signed new contracts with the African telecommunications carrier, Gateway Communications Africa for capacity on its NSS-703 satellite at 313 degrees East and its NSS-5 and NSS-7 satellites positioned at 340 degrees East.
Wed, 23 May 2012
Ster-Kinekor Cinema Nouveau Theatres has announced a new addition to the National Theatre Live season, She Stoops to Conquer. The title will be screened on 26, 27, 30 and 31 May 2012.
Wed, 23 May 2012
Kaelo - Stories of Hope returns to e.tv on Tuesday 3 July in the 5.30pm time slot, aiming to take viewers on an inspiring journey highlighting social change in South Africa and how companies, communities and the public sector are working together for a brighter future.
Wed, 23 May 2012
On Saturday, 26 May the Writers Guild of South Africa (WGSA) will hold a Knowledge Share Session with Craig Freimond, the writer and director of the recent hit feature film, Material.
Wed, 23 May 2012
ComutaNet has announced the cementing of a strategic alliance with AirMedia that will significantly increase the media owners reach into the LSM 4-7 market in Southern Africa. The alliance will allow ComutaNet an advertising channel into the Edcon Discount Division stores, mainly through its Jet and JetMart stores.
Wed, 23 May 2012
The first three stage shows of Idols SA, a co-production between M-Net and Mzansi Magic, will take place at the newly built Soweto Theatre in Jabulani, Soweto in July.
Wed, 23 May 2012
In the last three months, Frieze Films rising star Malo 8 has directed commercials for three major cellular brands: MTN for MetropolitanRepublic; Cell C for Ogilvy Johannesburg; and Nokia for JWT.
Wed, 23 May 2012
NAGRA, a Kudelski Group, is to introduce a broadcast-to-IP gateway which will allow live TV to be delivered to IP-enabled devices without impacting a consumers existing live TV viewing experience.
Wed, 23 May 2012
As the US largest owner of stations in mid-size markets, Gray Television Group dominates broadcasting across Middle America. With 36 diverse affiliates spread throughout college towns and state capitols, Gray VP of Technology Jim Ocon recognised his company's crucial need to establish a common cost-effective, automated workflow across all its stations.
Wed, 23 May 2012
The Big Brother StarGame VIP housemates got a dose of reality on Monday 21 May, after 14 days in the Upville house, as they had their first nomination session of the show. When the dust had settled, Mampi, DKB and former Downville housemate Maneta found themselves up for eviction this week.
Wed, 23 May 2012
Channel O, part of the DStv pay-TV bouquet, has announced that Ms Cosmo will be adding her talents to deejay mixed music video show Bass-ment, which airs on Channel O from Monday to Saturday at 4pm and 11pm.
Wed, 23 May 2012
South African cinema exhibitor Avalon Group has signed a deal at the Cannes Film Festival with one of India's leading Bollywood studios, Yash Raj Films, to distribute their 2012 / 2013 slate. The deal was signed in the presence of South African Minister of Arts and Culture, Paul Mashatile, by Avalon Group's CEO AB Moosa and Avtar Panesar, VP International Operations, Yash Raj Films.
Wed, 23 May 2012
FOR-A Company Limited, a leading manufacturer of video and audio systems for the broadcast and professional video industries, will debut the FT-ONE full 4K high resolution variable frame rate camerathe worlds first full 4K super slow motion cameraat Cine Gear Expo, which runs from 1 to 2 June in Hollywood.
Wed, 23 May 2012
The opening round of the My Top Billing Dream Presenter Search 2012 kicked off at the Protea Hotel Willowlake, Bloemfontein where young hopefuls started queuing as early as 5:45am for the first auditions.
Wed, 23 May 2012
Bollywood action film Rowdy Rathore will be releasing at Ster-Kinekor Theatres at Gateway and The Zone at Rosebank on 1 June.
Tue, 22 May 2012
Leader Instruments has announced a new optional audio card for its award-winning LV5770 multi-monitor. Introduced at NAB 2012, the OP43 audio card incorporates loudness measurement, lip-sync timing analysis and surround-sound monitoring.
Tue, 22 May 2012
Telestream, a leading provider of video transcoding and workflow solutions, today announced the contribution of OpenCL performance improvements for pre-integration review to the x264 project. This follows Telestream's recent announcement of the integration of x264 across its file-based transcoding product lines.
Tue, 22 May 2012
Armed with the success of the previous edition in 2011, mobile phone operator Orange, part of France Telecom, has launched the second edition of its Orange African Social Venture Prize. The goal is to promote social innovation in Africa that supports development through Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
Tue, 22 May 2012
According to satellite pay-TV provider MultiChoice, approximately a quarter of their South African subscriber base exercised their choice during the recent Dish Magazine Poll.
