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Welcome to the latest Media Update newsletter.
Top stories making headlines this week include: SABC announced as the official national broadcaster of the 2012 London Olympics; Downton Abbey to return to BBC Entertainment in July; and Algoa FM expands its management team to meet new demands.
For a more in-depth read, skip to Leigh Andrews' feedback from the release of MasterCard Worldwide's latest Online Shopping Survey results.
In this week's editorial desk article, Andrews takes a look at the rise of the infographic and its effectiveness.
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Media news | SABC announced as the official national broadcaster of the 2012 London Olympics
After acquiring the rights to broadcast the 2012 London Olympics, the SABC is committed to delivering a world-class broadcast through SABC TV and radio platforms. As a public broadcaster, the SABC will fulfil its language mandate by broadcasting the Olympics in all 11 official languages, encouraging the nation to rally behind Team SA. Click to continue
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Looking at the digital extension of brands at Digital Media Europe
The Digital Media Europe 2012 conference, organised by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), examined the core issues in digital publishing: the business trends, paid content strategies, mobile platforms, global innovation, and new products and developments for the future. Click to continue
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Newspaper conference explores why Asian newspapers continue to grow
Simplistic explanations about why Asian newspapers continue to grow went right out the window when Asian newspaper leaders gathered in Bali, Indonesia, for Publish Asia, the premier Asian publishing conference organised by WAN-IFRA, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers. Click to continue
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 | Thousands join travel magazine treasure hunt
A month after the launch of Weg/go! magazine’s Hide-and-Seek competition, thousands of South Africans have already embarked on a virtual treasure hunt that explores the great South African outdoors in a bid to win prizes worth more than R600 000. Click to continue
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 | Essentials magazine invites real women to guest edit the May issue
Essentials is currently the only South African women’s consumer title to be showcasing real women on its cover. This decision to run the June 2011 issue free of models or celebrities provided the ideal platform to promote its ‘You are Amazing’ campaign celebrating ‘real women’, and now the magazine has gone one step further by inviting seven real women to guest edit the May issue. Click to continue
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 | Destiny goes green
The latest edition of Destiny is all about going green. The May issue hit shelves on 11 April, containing key green stories with a strong business focus. This is the first time Destiny has tackled green issues in such depth. Click to continue
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 | Dis-Chem launches Benefits Mother & Child Magazine
Dis-Chem has announced the launch of its new sister publication to the Dis-Chem Benefits Magazine, namely Benefits Mother & Child Magazine. The first edition will be launched in April. Click to continue
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SABC1 Live Talent Search produces top four finalists
The SABC1’s Live Talent Search has reached a critical milestone with the announcement of the top four finalists by the panel of judges. Viewers will get to see them in action from Friday, 20 April on the Live show. Click to continue
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 | Frisco coffee campaign dupes sleepy Expresso presenter
Coffee brand Frisco and local DJ Black Coffee pulled off a cheeky on-air prank on Expresso TV presenter Katlego Maboe on Friday, 20 April. The gag was done with the help of fellow presenter and prank accomplice, Liezel van der Westhuizen, who nominated him for the honour of being surprised on live TV. Click to continue
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 | Embrace your green thumb with Gardeners' World
A new location, a new format, new strands and a new addition to the main presenting team will bring fresh appeal to the definitive gardening advice series, Gardeners' World, which will be broadcast on Thursdays from 10 May at 9:30, only on SABC3. Click to continue
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 | Videovision's Khomani San film to be broadcast on SABC3
My Hunter’s Heart, the documentary feature film that focuses on the plight of the Khomani San people, will be broadcast on SABC3 on Saturday, 21 April at 21:50. The film is directed by brothers Craig and Damon Foster and produced by Anant Singh and Helena Spring. Music was especially composed for the film by multi-award winner Trevor Jones. Click to continue
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 | New TV shows starting soon on SABC3
SABC3 viewers can look forward to some new programming in the near future, with the second season of Brotherhood, the fifth season of Supernatural and the channel début of Footballers' Lives all due to begin soon. Click to continue
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 | 30 Rock to hit SABC3 screens
The fourth season of hit comedy show 30 Rock will begin airing on SABC3 on Thursday, 3 May at 21:40 (the 22-episode series will continue every Thursday). Click to continue
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Cooked in Africa Films announces the launch of flagship reality TV cooking competition for SABC3
Local branded entertainment production company, Cooked in Africa Films, headed up by partners and executive producers, Justin Bonello and Peter Gird, is producing a 13-part reality TV documentary titled Ultimate Braai Master, to be screened on SABC3 in September. Click to continue
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 | Survivor legends to return to SABC3
Twenty of Survivor’s most beloved heroes and most reviled villains arrive in the South Pacific to compete for the titles of 'Sole Survivor' on Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, premiering on Monday, 7 May on SABC3. The show will air on Mondays at 20:00. Click to continue
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Downton Abbey to return to BBC Entertainment in July
BBC Entertainment (DStv channel 120) has announced that it will be exclusively airing the second season of the BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning series Downton Abbey from 8 July. Click to continue
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From Concorde to covert employers on BBC Knowledge
New shows and films coming up on BBC Knowledge (channel 251 on DStv) include the third season of Undercover Boss UK, Bomb Squad, Life in the Undergrowth and Concorde's Last Flight. Click to continue
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Quality programming coming up on BBC channels
Rastamouse, MasterChef, Young Soldiers and Countdown to Zero are just some of the programme highlights coming up on BBC Lifestyle, BBC Knowledge and CBeebies in the near future. Click to continue
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| Lwazi curries no favour with the judges on MasterChef
Despite suffering from ‘flu and being unable to taste his dishes properly, Johannesburg’s Lwazi Mngoma was the fourth contestant to be eliminated on the latest episode of MasterChef SA on Tuesday, 24 April, after coming undone in the most difficult Pressure Test to date. Click to continue
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Carte Blanche appeals BCCSA judgment
M-Net’s current affairs programme Carte Blanche disagrees with the ruling and imposed sanctions made by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) regarding an insert that investigated a power-saving product called the Electro Smart apparatus. The show will therefore be appealing the BCCSA judgment. Click to continue
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Take a walk on the wild side with National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo WILD
Highlights on National Geographic Channel (DStv channel 260) and Nat Geo WILD (DStv channel 261) during the month of May include Lucky Munkers, Birth of Europe, Animal Underworld, Wild Mississippi and Live Like An Animal. Click to continue
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Freedom Day cake fest on Discovery as Cake Boss moves to TLC
With Freedom Day coming up on Friday, 27 April, Discovery Channel (DStv channel 121) has a treat for viewers - an all-day stack of Cake Boss. This will be Discovery Channel’s farewell to Buddy Valastro and his quirky crew as they settle into their new exclusive home on Discovery’s sister channel TLC (DStv channel 186), airing every weekday at 18.30 or on Saturdays at 16.00. Click to continue
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Ha! Ha! Hairies is coming to South African screens in May
Turner Broadcasting’s preschool brand Cartoonito, which has been live across Europe, the Middle East and Africa since 5 September 2011, has announced that it will be broadcasting episodes of their brand new preschool series, Ha! Ha! Hairies. Turner has also secured all licensing and merchandising rights for the series. Click to continue
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Fox International channels announce May highlights
Highlights on Fox Entertainment (TopTV channel 180), FX (TopTV channel 110) and Fox Retro (TopTV channel 181) during May include Grey's Anatomy, House of Payne, Bones, The Office (UK), Magnum PI and Star Trek. Click to continue
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 | Drama and excitement when fiction became reality with Jacaranda FM
The public opened their hearts during the recent auction of Parlotones drummer Neil Pauw’s painting on 18 April, and pledged R570 000 towards the training of tracker dogs, which will assist in Jacaranda FM’s anti-rhino-poaching efforts. The event took place at Jacaranda FM’s Montecasino studio and the band surprised the public with several live performances in the studio. Click to continue
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2OceansVibe Radio now live from Melrose Arch
2OceansVibe Radio, the Cape-based digital media phenomenon that has attracted public attention, partner brands and a legion of fans, is now broadcasting live from its new studio, slap in the middle of the retail galleria next to the Melrose Arch Piazza. Click to continue
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Online media said to be main source for technology news
Online media remains the most popular way for senior executives to source technology industry news, according to the 2012 annual technology market survey conducted by Eurocom Worldwide, the global PR network, in association with Johannesburg-based integrated marketing and communications agency Watt Communications. Click to continue
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 | Avusa re-launches PushPrint platform with auction of top-notch ad space
In celebration of the re-launch of advertising sales platform PushPrint, Avusa Media is hosting its first live online auction for an ad in one of South Africa’s leading dailies. Click to continue
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Online shopping increases as price, convenience and security become paramount
According to the latest MasterCard Worldwide Online Shopping Survey, online shopping has increased significantly in South Africa and continues to show potential for growth, with price, convenience and security key factors to consider making a purchasing decision. Click to continue
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 | Trust is the abstract imperative in online shopping, says PayU CEO
The phrase has become terribly passé, but the online environment, and how we conduct ourselves in it, is changing. Consumers are steadily becoming savvy, globally focussed and knowledgeable. The online renaissance is happening now – not somewhere in the future anymore. This is according to Mark Chirnside, CEO of online and mobile payment service provider PayU. Click to continue
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UCT and GetSmarter are creating more internet super-users
The University of Cape Town and GetSmarter, a leading online training company, will present the part-time UCT Internet Super-User course. The 10-week distance-learning course is intended to teach novice and intermediate internet users how to get the most out of online communication, research and business tools. Click to continue
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Launch your journalism career with UCT and GetSmarter
The University of Cape Town and GetSmarter have announced the second presentation of the UCT (CFMS) Feature Writing course. The 10-week part-time course, which starts on 7 May, is presented entirely online through GetSmarter’s innovative online learning platform. Click to continue
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Apps revealed as the main reason for buying smartphones
Apart from the desire for better or faster internet access, the main reason for buying a smartphone is to gain access to mobile apps, according to Ericsson ConsumerLab’s Emerging App Culture report. The report is the result of research conducted in the high-growth markets of Russia, India and Brazil, and also reveals that new smartphone users embrace apps at the same pace as mature users. Click to continue
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iMaverick uses Snapplify solution
iMaverick is Africa's first and the world’s third tablet-only interactive daily newspaper. As digital-only publishers, it needed a strategy for tablets that offered more than simply an online app. It needed to take advantage of the iPad's capabilities and they believed that a magazine-styled publication would be the best solution for utilising a tablet’s full capabilities. Click to continue
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App changes the game for estate agents
At a launch at the Table Bay Hotel recently, over 100 Realtors International agents and associates learned first hand that the future is now, and that the company is leading the way in transforming the industry - it has spent the past year developing an app (currently on iPad but on other platforms soon), which will free agents to spend more face-to-face time with their clients. Click to continue
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From the editorial desk ... | The rise of the infographic
Lately, infographics are everywhere you look. Click through to any popular website or blog like Mashable and you’re likely to find an image featuring fancy fonts, tiny images and boxed statistics that work together to illustrate a larger theme overall. Simply put, it’s information displayed in graphic form. But are infographics effective? This week, Leigh Andrews investigates. Click to continue
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While generating ideas for articles is a must for freelance writers, if you don’t know who to pitch your story ideas to, you’re wasting your time. At the same time, if you’re not looking in the right place, you might as well not look at all.
If you’ve ever worked as a writer, then you’ve bound to have been asked the question: Where do you get your ideas? It’s an all too familiar question. However, being a rather general question, it’s tricky to answer.
Profiling one of sports’ most high profile scandals that created a media frenzy, National Geographic Channel, along with Peacock Productions, dissects the story of the science and scheming behind the saga of what’s been called “the most sophisticated and successful doping scheme in all of sports.”
CA Davids’ debut novel, The Blacks of Cape Town, supported through the ACT Development Programme, will be launched on Saturday, 22 June at the UJ Arts Centre.
On Thursday, 15 November, Kasigo Digital - a sector of Kagiso Media launched a new premium network called Adfu. The launch took place at The Club House in Sandhurst and supplied interesting insight into the digital market.
Picture this: you get home from work, dock your smartphone into your sound system and, at the ‘touch of a screen’, you have access to over 18 million music tracks. Seems too good to be true? Not anymore …
Having been an integral part of growing 3i Publishing’s Africa Telecoms magazine as the premium source of telecommunications information across Africa, Bradley Shaw will now use his considerable technical knowledge, negotiating and persuasive skills in a similar fashion at Spinlet.
“I support the entire sales department by correlating relevant reports for the account executives, assist with costing for events organised for clients by the sales team, assist the senior traffic executive in her role and am also the sales manager’s right hand woman,” says Zwane.
The Marimba Education Foundation (MEF) has announced a name and venue change - the inaugural Soweto National Marimba Festival will be held at the Morris Isaacson School, Soweto on Saturday, 7 September, as part of the annual Arts Alive International Festival 2013.
The eThekwini Municipality’s Business Support, Tourism and Markets Unit is calling all “model” citizens interested in strutting their stuff at Durban’s premier fashion event - the Durban Fashion Fair – to an open casting and model scouting day on Friday, 28 June 28.
I'm only 28 but when I finished reading Dr Hannetjie Van Zyl-Edeling’s book titled Over the Moon - A Guide to Positive Aging, I was filled with what the French refer to as joie de vivre - the joy of living. So says Abbygail Zwane.
Johannesburg and Cape Town fans of the 2012 smash hit (and 3rd biggest film of all time, including South Africa) Marvel’s The Avengers, are gearing up to celebrate the release of the film on DVD and Blu-Ray this spring in two fun-filled and colourful events.
June sees the release of Trevor Romain's Random Kak I Remember About Growing Up in South Africa by Penguin Books South Africa. He spent a few minutes answering questions about the book and his life.
Mary Watson's novel, The Cutting Room is hitting shelves this April. She took some time out of her busy scehdule to chat to Media Update about her novel.
Asset, a new, interactive digital publication for the commercial property industry, has just launched its first issue. The publication represents a pioneering effort in the world of new media through its crossover between the publication itself and the eProp.co.za website and e-newsletter.
Target Media is a web-based media directory, which provides accurate and up-to-date information about the media in South Africa 
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