by SAARF & MarkLives. The 20th Annual South African Music Awards proved to be a major ratings hit for SABC 1 during the week of 28 April — 4 May 2014, the SAARF/MarkLives #Top40TVratings national chart shows. It landed in third position on the chart with an audience of 5 378 929. It grabbed 4th spot on the DStv chart. In addition SAMA 20: Lights, Camera, Fashion! took the 7th and 6th spots on the national and the DStv charts respectively.
Category archives: Media
MagLove: World Cup magazine covers starting to trend
by MediaSlut (@MediaSlut) My choice of the best international and local magazine covers this week: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Esquire UK, Sports Illustrated US, Yankee, IEEE Spectrum, Golf Digest South Africa and Marie Claire South Africa.
Smart Africa TV: Teenage Mutant Azanians — Africa’s answer to South Park
by Russell Southwood (@BalancingActAfr) In this video interview, Cartoon.tv producer Nick Wilson talks about its new animation series, My Child: Teenage Mutant Azanians (@MyChildTV).
SAARF/MarkLives #Top40TVratings: As elections near, news gains
by SAARF & MarkLives (@marklives) The week of 21 April — 27 April 2014 shows two news broadcasts enter the SAARF/MarkLives #Top40TVratings Top 10, our national chart shows. News broadcasts in isiZulu, isiXhosa and news headlines on SABC 1 all gained in audience figures. On the DStv chart News in Afrikaans also gained viewers even as it slipped in the rankings. This as national and provincial elections close in on May 7th.
CliffCentral.com live
Gareth Cliff’s CliffCentral.com started broadcasting on 1 May 2014, taking a multi-screen approach. Every show should be available via podcast an hour after it has gone out live, according to CliffCentral.com.
SABC denies banning second DA ‘Ayisafani’ ad
Head group communications at the SABC, Kaizer Kganyago, has denied that the national broadcaster will not be flighting the second of the Democratic Alliance’s ‘Ayisafani’ election ads. “The ad will be played,” Kganyago has confirmed to MarkLives. This follows media reports and claims by the DA that the ad has been banned by the SABC.
Media Future: The birth announcement of the commercial internet in SA
by Arthur Goldstuck (@art2gee) Twenty years ago this month, South African newspaper readers were given their first in-depth exposure to the Internet. We look back at the birth announcements of the commercial Internet.
SAARF/MarkLives #Top40TVratings: the Zaziwa bounce
by SAARF & MarkLives (@marklives) The week of 14 April — 20 April 2014 saw SABC 1 music talk show Zaziwa bounce from 11th to 6th place, the SAARF/MarkLives #Top40TVratings national chart shows. Interestingly, the bounce was not replicated on the DStv chart where the show only climbed one spot — from 21st to 20th. Selimathunzi jumped from no. 18 into the no. 9 slot.
Thinking TV: Earth Hour a miss as TV viewers keep watching
Introducing a monthly analysis of TV viewership figures by Inge Hansen (@mecnotabene) With millions around the globe pledging their participation in Earth Hour 2014 (29 March), would a look at TV consumption habits reveal the drive to switch off for 60 minutes?
SABC bans election ad claims EFF
The SABC has banned its election ad according to a press statement issued by the EFF. This follows on news last week that the SABC had banned, and then unbanned, an election ad by the DA. In the ad the EFF calls for justice for the victims of the Marikana massacre and the ‘physical’ destruction of eTolls.