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Communications Authority of
South Africa (Icasa) has warned
that if the UK-based free-to-air
broadcaster Free2View continues
operating without a licence it could block its satellite
signal, or take other action. Clicklhere
here for more.
The World Association of
Newspapers (WAN) has added a
special, 'Shaping the Future of the
Newspaper' session to its World
Newspaper Advertising Conference and
Expo in March that will examine new
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interactive advertising opportunities in
"advergaming”, search, blogs, social networking and
more. Clicklhere
here for more.
The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) has
announced that it will be moving offices on
Monday, 4 February. Clicklhere
here for more.
Blue Planet Media has announced that it has
selected the Celebrities For Humanity Foundation
(CFHF) as its 2008 social responsibility project. Click
lhere
here for more.
Sweden will host its 15th World Editors Forum
in June, where editors from four of the world's
most prestigious newspapers will examine whether
newsroom integration really works. The events are
expected to draw more than 1 500 newspaper
publishers, chief editors, and other senior newspaper
executives . Clicklhere
here for more.
Beeld's latest amateur
photography competition is
held in conjunction with Canon and
the World Wildlife Fund. Click lhere
here
for more.
The Times has responded to its readers requests
for a bigger and better TV Guide section.
On Monday, 28 January, The Daily Dispatch
launched its newly revamped website, Dispatch
Online. Clicklhere
here for more.
Shape magazine's Healthy Eating Challenge,
sponsored by Appletiser, has already signed up
over 6000 challengers. Clicklhere
here for more.
A radio ad for the February issue of Getaway that
lightheartedly talks of a journalist getting matey
with a chimpanzee has caused a stir and has been
pulled off air by the magazine. ClickLhere
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The South African Property Review, the official
magazine of the South African Property Owners
Association (SAPOA), will be published monthly from
March. This is the result of research that showed
readers felt the clutter of information on the property
market and the tangle of trends weaving their way
through the market sat uncomfortably in the
voluminous bi-monthly magazine. ClickLhere
here for more.
One Giant Man has released its
February issue of Dieselcar, in
which it evaluates the new Isuzu
Extended KB300 Turbodiesel. Dieselcar
believes the vehicle has all the comforts
necessary for today's busy world. Click
here for more.
WIEL magazine has maintained and
developed a devoted following of
Afrikaans readers for 30 years. WIEL is
the oldest, and now the only Afrikaans
motoring magazine in the country, and
the second oldest motoring title overall,
after CAR. Clicklhere
here for more.
While children across Cape Town
went back to school recently, some
could not even afford the most basic
stationery. The 94.5 Kfm Ground Patrol,
in conjunction with Waltons, collected
stationery and monetary donations at shopping
centres in and around Cape Town from the station's
listeners and corporate companies, who gave
generously, enabling thousands of children to receive
stationery kits. Clicklhere
here for more.
In early February, 5FM joins
forces with MTV, Smirnoff Spin
and Oppikoppi to bring the hottest
campus music tour to hit South
Africa. The TRL Radio on Tour, a
series of spectacular open-air music festivals,
combining the best rock, pop, indie and hip-hop acts
with great venues and an extraordinary rag-week
atmosphere. Clicklhere
here for more.
OFM will reward listeners with
R2008 cash, daily from 29
January to 1 February and from 4 to 8
February. Listeners will be prompted
to listen to OFM from 06:00 to 18:00, as there is only
one “get into it” song per day. Clicklhere
here for more.
Recently, 20 Sudanese journalists arrived at
Urban Brew Studios for training. In November
last year Urban Brew Studios won a multi-million rand
contract to build a public broadcaster for the
government of Southern Sudan. Clicklhere
here for more.
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Johannesburg residents have a
new platform to raise concerns
about issues affecting their every day
lives: a dedicated, one-hour radio
feature hosted by Jenny Crwys-
Williams on Talk Radio 702. Called “Wishlist for a
Reborn Joburg”, the feature aims to highlight
progress in city governance as well as afford city
executives the opportunity to inform residents about
developments in areas such as transport,
environment and security. Clicklhere
here for more.
Oracle Airtime Sales has announced the
commencement of South African advertising
sales on the Crime & Investigation Network (DStv's
Channel 255) as from 1 March. Clicklhere
here for more.
While the ongoing writers' strike in
Hollywood has disrupted the
production of television and awards
shows in 2008, M-Net has announced
that it has secured the broadcast of the
Screen Actors Guild Awards for this
year. The show will be broadcast on
Monday, 28 January at 22:35. Clicklhere
here for more.
The Carte Blanche Viewers' Choice special on
Thursday, 31 January will be extended to half an
hour in order to accommodate a repeat broadcast of
last week's Carte Blanche insert entitled “Eskom's
Darkest Hour”. The insert investigates the Eskom
power outages that have brought Africa's biggest
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economy to its knees. Clicklhere
Restaurant guide, Dining-OUT
has released a mobile website.
Already, Dining-OUT's internet-
based restaurant guide features
over 800 local restaurants complete
with trading hours, colour photos,
full menues, maps, directions and much more. All this
information is now available on the new mobile-based
version of this popular website. ClickLhere
here for more.
The online version of CAR
magazine, CARtoday.com
has undergone a revamp. The
new homepage features a bold
revolving highlight box that plays up the site's
reserves of new car galleries, video clips and desktop
wallpapers. Aside from motoring and motorsport
news, the site includes community forums, and an
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online new and used CAR Guide. ClickLhere
Nick Kotch, a media consultant, journalism
trainer and correspondent based in South Africa
has joined the panel of judges for the 2008 Citadel
Words on Money Journalism Award. ClickLhere here
for more.
The official site and a brand new
logo for the 2008 4th Annual
South African Weblog Awards
has just been launched, and the
annual process of nominations and
voting is coming up in February and
March. The Awards showcase the
best of South African independent
web publishing in various
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categories. ClickLhere
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NEW ON AIR
Audi TV
Audi has yet again broken
new ground as the first
car manufacturer to
transmit its own
dedicated 24-hour
television channel.
Reflecting the Audi brand,
Audi TV is both prestigious and sophisticated. It
showcases the company's range of premium luxury
vehicles, including major international product
launches, events, sports and culture. Please be aware
that the Audi TV microsite is media rich and contains
large files and streaming video. As Audi TV streams
live video from the Internet, a broadband connection
is essential for this website. VisitLwww.audi.co.za
www.audi.co.za and
follow the Audi TV links.
Encounters
Encounters is a new public debate show hosted by
Sunday Times columnist, Fred Khumalo, which
focuses on ethics and morality in South Africa. The
show features a panel of four experts who will interact
with the audience on different issues. Encounters is
produced by Kagiso TV & Communications, producers
o f s e ve ra l e d u c a t i o n a l a n d d e ve l o p m e n t
programmes. Encounters will be screened at 12:30,
every Sunday from 3 February on SABC2.
Channel O Sprite Emcee Africa
Channel O’s new,
continental flagship
show, Channel O Sprite
Emcee Africa, is a
reality-based talent
search show that travels
through parts of Africa
with the aim of crowning
the King or Queen of Africa’s lyrical freestyle
arena. Sprite Emcee Africa will visit 6 African
countries to host the battle for lyrical supremacy.
This opportunity is open to anybody who can
make similes, kiss metaphors and bring the house
down in the process. National winners will fly to
Johannesburg, South Africa, to compete in the
Grand Finale which will be filmed live on Saturday,
8 March. The King or Queen Emcee will receive
continental exposure as well as a $10 000 cash
prize. He or she will feature in a collaboration with
Freestyle Guru ‘Wordsworth’ from New York and
will get a music video made for Channel O as part
of the winnings.
A media conference will take place at M-Net head
office in Randburg on Tuesday, 5 February at
10:00, which will be followed by a Hip Hop round
table media session where prominent players in
the industry will discuss the status of South
African Hip Hop for the Channel O cameras. The
South African Channel O Sprite Emcee Africa heat
will then take place in Johannesburg on Saturday,
9 February. Contestants will be short-listed and
screened through Channel O’s daily live show
OBoma between 15:00 and 17:00 and on YFM’s
midday show Da Joint hosted by Ak and Lee.
Prospective freestyle battle Emcee’s are
requested to call the EMCEE hotline on 083 916
0909 and register to take part.
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NEW ON THE SHELF
Golf Punk
First launched in the UK in
2004, Golf Punk taps into a
brand new golfing audience
by challenging existing
perceptions about the game
through the introduction of
more entertainment. It
shocks the establishment
by making golf sexy with its
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'Golf Porn' (no, not that
sort) and 'Bunker Babes'.
The title is published in the
UK, Germany, Sweden,
Italy, China, Indonesia, the
Phillipines, Singapore, and now, South Africa.
Golf Punk is a lifestyle title in the golf publishing
market, unique in its cheeky approach that punts
attitude rather than age. In the UK, 70% of Golf
Punk readers are between the ages of 24 and 44.
The South African edition is aiming to attract
readers between the ages of 18 to 48. The first
official edition will be available in February. Golf
Punk is published by Greenside Golf Publishing
(the license holders in South Africa). For a sneak
peak of what to expect, one can also visit
Lwww.bayfm.co.za
Lwww.golfpunksa.co.za
www.golfpunksa.co.za . On the website you can
preview the magazine, subscribe, view the rate
card and the newsletter. For more information,
michael@golfpunksa.co.za .
contactlmichael@golfpunksa.co.za
PUBLICATIONS IN THE PIPELINE
The Property Developer
The Property Developer is a
new bi-monthly publication
that covers property
development activities
countrywide. It has been
launched by the South
African Property Owners
Association in response to
need for separate titles to
cover the 'soft' and 'hard'
property issues in South
Africa. The SA Property
Review will now focus
exclusively on the 'soft' property issues, while The
Property Developer will deal with the 'hard' issues
confronting those who conceive and deliver new
building stock. The journal aims to bridge the ill-
defined and often conflicting interests between
the public and private sectors in the property
development arena, by providing a platform or a
hot seat from which diverse perspectives can be
projected, analysed and resolved through “hard”
dialogue, position papers and research - both
quantitative and qualitative. It also seeks to
provide in-depth analyses on existing business
and residential nodes - and those in the process of
formation. Lastly, it aims to explore and promote
buildings that are green and in this way support
the work that is being done by the South African
Green Building Council. The February/March issue
will be out and distributed to a dedicated mailing
list mid-March. For more information, one can call
011 442 2260/ 442 1869 or email
tony@pangram.co.za .
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M
Momentum will soon launch M, its first dedicated
customer magazine. The publication will focus on
insurance, investments, retirement and health while
striving to make savings sexy with their unique save
thru spend and Multiply programmes and partners.
Tenfour Media, together with Habari Media, will
produce the magazine for Momentum. M, Momentum's
first client communication that spans all business units
and product houses within Momentum, aims to inform,
inspire and entertain. For more information, visit
www.tenfourmedia.co.za orLwww.habarimedia.co.za
www.habarimedia.co.za.
MEDIA REVISITED
Bay FM
Bay FM was born out of the
students of the University of Port
Elizabeth. In 1995 Bay FM was
granted an FM licence by the then
IBA, catering specifically for the
students of the University. Today
Bay FM is considered the number
one youth station within the Nelson Mandela Bay area.
The station broadcasts in English, Xhosa and Afrikaans
to a seven day average of 50 000 listeners (RAMS
October 2007). For more information visit
www.bayfm.co.za.
BBQ Scorecard
BBQ Scorecard is a business-to-
business publication fostering
the drive to transformation,
economic development and B-
BBEE in South Africa by
providing insight and
understanding about the
scorecard system. The content
in the magazine dissects the
critical elements that make up
the B-BBEE Scorecard. These
include: Ownership;
Management control; Employment Equity; Skills
Development; Preferential Procurement; Enterprise
Development and Socio-Economic Development. 10
000 copies of BBQ Scorecard are distributed with the
highly esteemed BBQ Magazine on a quarterly basis to
members of NAFCOC, BMF, SACOB, prominent
companies, SMEs as well as MDs, CEOs of JSE-listed
companies and government departments. For further
www.capemedia.co.za.
details, visitLwww.capemedia.co.za
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
Laura Clancy has been appointed programming co-
ordinator at 702 Talk Radio.
Michelle Loewenstein has joined the Sandton
magazine team.
Jacqui Tanton has been appointed as the Newspaper
Advertising Bureau's (NAB) Market Service Manager.
Eddie Khoza has been appointed as the Cluster Head:
Township Community Newspapers at the Newspaper
Advertising Bureau (NAB).
Fin24 and Finweek editor-in-chief, Marc Hasenfuss,
will resign from his administrative responsibilities at
the titles and will return to journalism.
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EDITOR’S CORNER
This week’s topic was going to be about blogs and
their increasing usefulness. But then I remembered
something from one of my management courses,
where we were taught about technical change versus
adaptive change. In light of the recent turmoil in
Kenya in the wake of president Mwai Kibaki being
reelected, I realised that blogs, and how they are
used, have become adaptive.
Technical change is an action made to correct an
immediate situation; similarly with blogs - they
emerged as a necessity for global communication and
citizen journalism. Adaptive change is continuous
conditioning for constant development, and the
addressing of a root cause. Blogs, likewise, have now
become entities of their own that serve as a
communication tool that constantly adapts and
develops according to the needs that arise.
Throughout the course of 2007, myself and many of
my industry colleagues have written at length about
the new-age journalist - a multimedia user who
incorporates multiple platforms in the
communications mix. We saw this after the 7/7
attacks in London in 2005, when the major news
networks were airing cellphone footage from
bystanders, i.e. consumer generated content. We
also saw the power of cellphone imagery in the
aftermath of the Asia Tsunami on Christmas of that
year.
Now, blogs became the way Kenyans communicated
with the outside world during and after the 27
December 2007 elections that, according to
international commentators, were marred by
irregularities.
While international news networks could broadcast
from Kenya, bloggers were breaking stories by the
minute, with the networks picking up on those
snippets and verifying sources.
An example is pictured below, but here is the text of
what a journalist’s blog looked like, as he broke the
news of the presence of foreign militias in his country:
The below screenshot was taken from
http://blogs.takepart.com, on a page dedicated to the violence
in Kenya after Kibaki’s re-election.
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“Kenya: Is Ugandan Militia In Kenya?
Ndesanjo Macha · 15:06
Breaking news of the presence of Ugandan militia
in Kenya, blogger Joseph Karoki writes: Last night I
recieved news that there were reports of Ugandan
militia in or around Nyanza Province and Western
Province. I waited until I got confirmation from the
ground. After several late night phone calls, I did
confirm that Ugandan Forces were indeed within
Kenyan borders.” 5 comments · »»”
This is a whole new age of media. An age in which
citizens can generate the very content they once
consumed and journalists can use the same methods
of generating online content as consumers do. The
way of producing media has come full circle. Editors
of some of the top news providers, including
bbcnews.com, have their own space on the news
websites to share their angles on stories.
Locally, we are all doing the same. We have separate
online portals to break stories and write them in a
casual style, before consolidating all the verified data
into formal stories published in the main sections.
An interesting comment made by the editor of
Communication World (the IABC’s magazine) noted
that there are five types of bloggers, each with their
own set of characteristics and behavioural patterns.
This is a whole new ball-game, which will intensify the
debate over consumer generated content and what
actually constitutes citizen journalism.
See you next week.
DANIEL
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