As of Monday 10 December 2012 SAARF TAMS (Television and Audience Measurement Survey) will use the DStv audited figures for weighting the DStv penetration, PVR penetration within DStv and the bouquet percentages within the DStv and M-Net analogue universes on the TAMS panel. Audited DStv updated subscriber numbers will be included in all future bi-annual [...]
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Steve Hofmeyr first to roast
DStv celebrates the launch of Comedy Central (DStv Channel 122), Africa’s only 24-hour comedy channel, with the “Roast” one of South Africa’s most controversial entertainment figures in “The Comedy Central Roast of Steve Hofmeyr”. Hofmeyr, a controversial musician, actor, talk activist, poet, former talk show host and Afrikaner poster-boy is making South African comedy history as [...]
Fox P2 and Gloo win the 2012 Roger Garlick Award
At last night’s MOST Awards, AMASA announced Fox P2 and Gloo’s joint entry for Brandhouse as the overall Roger Garlick Award winner. Entered by Pete Case in the Best use of Online, Social Media and Mobile category, the entry showed how the two agencies jointly combated drinking and driving for its client through online [...]
MOST Awards reveal interesting results
The fourth MOST Awards revealed interesting results, and while the top media players fared well, emerging companies pipped those established to the post. Over 700 media owners, media planners, strategists and clients gathered at the University of Johannesburg’s Arts Auditorium to applaud Provantage, The MediaShop (JHB) and PHD Media for walking away with the top accolades.W [...]
M-Net Channel will be full HD simulcast from October
M-Net Channel will be a full HD simulcast from 1 October 2012. This means that there will no longer be separate versions of the M-Net HD & SD channels. Instead there will be a single HD feed that will be down-converted for SD viewing environments. M-Net’s move to 16:9 broadcasting last year was the first [...]
MetropolitanRepublic raises awareness for Cochlear Implants
As part of MetropolitanRepublic’s annual pro-bono initiatives, the agency created a TV Commercial for HearUs, a non-profit organisation established in 2001 by parents of deaf children with cochlear implants. The vision of the organisation is to assist children and adults obtain cochlear implants which facilitate speech, learning and helps them to be part of the [...]
Local socialites kick off new season for My Super Sweet World Class
Cape Town ‘it girls’ and self-named ‘party queens of Cape Town’ Liz Stone and Elena Pappas are the glamorous hosts of the new season of My Super Sweet World Class (MTV, DStv Channel 321, 23:00 CAT, Sunday 19 February 2012). From Sydney to Oslo, Cape Town to the Hamptons, MTV’s My Super Sweet World Class [...]
Comedy Central launched on DSTV
Launching on 6 December 2011, is Comedy Central a 24-hour English language comedy channel reaching viewers in 47 territories in sub-Saharan Africa. It offers groundbreaking comedy from Comedy Central’s award-winning programming slate. The channel will include global hit franchises such as, The Colbert Report and brand new episodes of South Park. MTV Networks Africa (MTVNA), [...]
TLC raises awareness for ‘Dating in the Dark’
Is it possible to fall in love with someone you have spoken to, whom you may have touched… but have never actually seen? This is the key question posed by BBC’s latest reality TV show called Dating in the Dark. Targeted lifestyle communication specialist TLC has been entrusted to advertise the new series, which takes [...]
Preschool Cartoonito rolls-out on DSTV
Turner Broadcasting has announced the roll-out of Cartoonito, its creative preschool channel block, on African television. Cartoonito is set to become an exciting new entertainment destination for preschoolers aged three to six and their parents and will broadcast daily on Boomerang, available on DSTV channel 302. The Cartoonito block will be a clearly signposted place [...]
