Ghana’s GH One commissions first ever OB truck
Last year GH One, Ghana’s biggest private television channel, rolled out support for Ultra HD following an upgrade of its studio facilities in Accra....
Axon enables SABC’s High Definition coverage
The South African Broadcast Corporation (SABC) has become the first broadcaster in Africa to integrate Axon Digital Design’s versatile Cerebrum control and monitoring software...
The effects of IP in the television OB environment
For many years the TV and Broadcast industry and IT/Telecommunications industries have been merging. This evolutionary move was inevitable since the invention of digital...
Solving the Media Factory puzzle
“The key in building a true media factory is the requirement to define thousands of distribution instruction sets and the ability to save these...
MAMs in the era of democratised filmmaking
The last decade’s “democratisation of filmmaking” is a truly wonderful thing. It has enabled more people to create via a lower barrier of entry,...
Digital video archiving – keeping up with today’s broadcast demands
“In this changing world of broadcasting, storage is the foundation upon which the broadcast facility is built. Cost-effective storage management, archival, and retrieval services...
Colourist essentials with Mushroom Media’s Warwick Allan
Established in 2005, Johannesburg-based Mushroom Media is a boutique digital post-production house focused on the commercials and feature film market. Warwick Allan, renowned colourist...
Cyborg filmmaking in virtual reality 360 production
The torrent of news headlines in South Africa would have us believe we might be on the brink of civil unrest – a recurring...
Bob Mabena joins MSG Afrika Broadcasting
MSG Afrika Group, has announced the appointment of Bob Mabena as their group head of Programming of their subsidiary MSG Broadcasting...
Realness Pan African Screenwriters’ Residency update
Realness Pan African Screenwriters’ Residency reflects on their inaugural year of championing African film and putting focus on story development...
































