by SAARF & MarkLives (@marklives) The week of 31 March — 6 April 2014 saw isiZulu telenovela Isibaya on Mzansi Magic climb into the second spot on the SAARF/MarkLives #Top40TVratings DStv chart. It has gradually been gaining momentum and now has 1 218 746 viewers.
Category archives: Media
Smart Africa TV: Uganda’s underground music circuit
by Russell Southwood (@BalancingActAfr) In this interview, Alex Aheebwa, assistant director of Bayimba.org, gives his take on what’s happening in the Ugandan music scene.
MagLove: Good enough to eat
by MediaSlut (@MediaSlut) My choice of the best international and local magazine covers this week: FX, New York, TIME and Dossier (Art Issue).
SAARF/MarkLives #Top40TVratings: Family Bonds enter Top 10
by SAARF & MarkLives (@marklives) The week of 24 March — 30 March 2014 saw Family Bonds on SABC 1 entering our into one of our Top 10 positions on the SAARF/MarkLives #Top40TVratings national chart.
April 1: Punk’d by the media
by Herman Manson (@marklives) It’s 1 April 2014 and news sites, newspapers and broadcasters are out to get you. With elections just around the corner, April Fool’s stories dealt with popular voter gripes: News24 announced Western Cape premier Helen Zille is moving to Khayelitsha; MyBroadband tackled Nkandla’s ‘but I never asked for it’ telecommunications infrastructure; and TimesLive reported that you can dodge paying e-tolls by driving exactly 113 km/h.
Live from Qunu – reporting from the funeral of Nelson Mandela
by Gill Moodie (@grubstreetSA) Three journalists: all East Londoners and deeply connected to the Daily Dispatch, the hometown newspaper of Nelson Mandela. All three covered THE once-in-a-lifetime story: the funeral of Mandela in Qunu in the Transkei last year but with totally different world views and media experience.
Smart Africa TV: Ringtones in Africa — the US$500 million market
by Russell Southwood (@BalancingActAfr) In this interview, Rob Marshall, who is responsible digital music business development at Sony Music, talks about the potential for the music business on the continent and how ringtones are already a US$500 million market.
MagLove: The rise and fall of Oscar Pistorius, as chronicled on magazine covers
by MediaSlut (@MediaSlut) Oscar Pistorius is on everyone’s lips and too many newspaper front pages to even keep track of, but he’s also had a history of some other brilliant magazine covers, pre- and post-14 February 2013.
Africa’s first tablet magazine, iMaverick, closed down
by Herman Manson (@marklives) Africa’s first tablet magazine, iMaverick, has ceased operation. The title, from the publishers of the Daily Maverick, stopped publishing at the end of January 2014.
SAARF/MarkLives #Top40TVratings: Battle of the news broadcasts
by SAARF & MarkLives (@marklives) The week of 17 March — 23 March 2014 saw SABC 1 dominate eight of the Top 10 positions on our SAARF/MarkLives #Top40TVratings national chart, while Isibaya continued its climb on our DStv table, from no. 4 to no. 3, by growing its viewership from 965 632 to 1 115 462.