Fri, 03 Feb 2012
South African documentary Captor & Captive – the story of Danger Ashipala and Johan van der Mescht, will be screened at the Luxor African Film Festival in Egypt in February, as part of the official competition.
Fri, 03 Feb 2012
Rizzoli & Isles DOP Anthony Hardwick has purchased a second OConnor head for the hit TNT series that is currently airing. Hardwick, who has added a new 2575D to his support package, says: “Season Two has become more ambitious and we need to capture more action in the same timeframe set for a television shoot.”
Fri, 03 Feb 2012
Season one of the hit Twentieth Century Fox comedy series Modern Family will premiere on e.tv on Sunday 5 February at 7:30pm, offering an honest and often hilarious look at the complexity of family life.
Fri, 03 Feb 2012
As of December 2011 Facebook has a staggering 845 million users, a fact confirmed on 1 February when the social networking giant filed an initial public offering (IPO) on the stock market, according to www.pcmag.com.
Fri, 03 Feb 2012
TechCentral reports that the founding CEO of satellite pay-TV operator TopTV, Vino Govender, is officially stepping down with Eddie Mbalo taking over as interim CEO until Govender’s replacement is found.
Fri, 03 Feb 2012
MARTIN CHEMHERE writes…The World Has Malaria, a one-minute film by Resource Africa UK, recently won a special COP 17 prize in Durban, where the prize was awarded by Connect4Climate.
Fri, 03 Feb 2012
Pay-TV channel M-Net’s decision to move ground-breaking outdoor soap The Wild to a 7pm time slot on DStv is paying off, based on interaction from viewers in the past few weeks.
Fri, 03 Feb 2012
Soldiers of the Rock, an award winning feature film produced in 2000 by graduates of AFDA, the South African School of Motion Picture Medium & Live Performance, has been selected as part of the Pan African Film Festival’s (PAFF) 20th Anniversary in Los Angeles
Thu, 02 Feb 2012
The SOS: Support Public Broadcasting Coalition has written the following open letter to Minister of Communications Dina Pule regarding its position on executive appointments at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). SOS has also requested clarity on the Mavuso Mbebe legal case.
Thu, 02 Feb 2012
Channel24 reports that director Regardt van den Bergh's new film The Lamb will have Hollywood producer Frank Yablans, a former president of Paramount Pictures, on board.
Thu, 02 Feb 2012
Pay-TV music channel Channel O and youth channel Vuzu will be airing a slate of specially created packages during a week-long build-up to the 54th Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday 12 January.
Thu, 02 Feb 2012
Blackmagic Design has released Desktop Video 9.2 beta 1, a software update for its capture and playback products that adds broadcast monitoring support with the new Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3 update.
Thu, 02 Feb 2012
outh Africa’s Minister of Communications Dina Pule has issued a gazette to extend the date for public comment on the two policy directions that relate to two frequency bands to 29 February 2012.
Wed, 01 Feb 2012
American pop star Katy Perry’s engineering team relies on DPA Microphones’ 4088 cardioid headsets for all the pop superstar’s live performances, including her current California Dreams world tour.
Wed, 01 Feb 2012
Front Porch Digital DIVAdirector is an easy-to-use and cost-effective media asset management (MAM) system that enables operators, using their Web browsers, to search, locate, and retrieve stored media assets directly from their desktops.
Wed, 01 Feb 2012
Broadcast Pix today launched an online user forum, www.broadcastpix.com/forum, to foster communication between live video production professionals from a variety of markets.
Wed, 01 Feb 2012
South African cinema-going opera fans can delight in the next instalment of the 5th season of The Met Opera, The Enchanted Island, which releases exclusively at Cinema Nouveau and Select Ster-Kinekor theatres on 10 Feruary
Wed, 01 Feb 2012
Bridge Technologies has launched its new VB252 RF interface, a complete RF monitoring and analysis solution for DVB-T/T2 broadcasters.
Wed, 01 Feb 2012
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and Telefónica have announced two challenges to uncover innovative ICT approaches to support the 2012 United Nations- (UN) declared ‘International Year for Sustainable Energy for All’.
Wed, 01 Feb 2012
A new drama, Thandi's Story, will screen as part of South African free-to-air channel e.tv's e Kasi: Our Stories strand on 6 February at 9pm.
