BROADCAST NEWS

OH AFRICA PRESENTS DISCOP ACCRA 2011 - TV OF THE FUTURE!

The greatest African TV minds together over four days organised by DISCOP and being held in Accra, West Africa for the FIRST time. OH Africa presenter Savanah Nightingale will be interviewing the executives attending, by way of them introducing themselves,talking about what their channels represent and viewpoint on the current state & future of African television. The programme promises to not only showcase the diverse TV landscape of Africa but also what goes into putting an event of this nature together.

The elements of the programme include:

ELEVATOR PITCH FOR PRODUCERS: "We want you to pitch your top show in 120 seconds flat. Which will be seen by an audience of TV movers and shakers as well as an global audience of "20 million."

DEALS OF THE DAY: We announce deals that have been brokered on a particular day. The interviews will be broadcast across OHTV!s multiple platforms OH AFRICA,OHTV,OH USA & the Discop website. OH Africa!s Lola will be contacting all Discop participants prior to the event to schedule a time for during the event to interview interested parties.

Contact: Lola.ogunbadejo@ohtv.co.uk

(Source :OH TV)

 CAMEROON : CAMEROON CELEBRATES 25 YEARS OF TELEVISION 

Twenty five years are not 25 days, and this best sums the history of television in Cameroon. The debut, historically, was tardy cognizant of the great strides made in TV journalism in other African countries. Down memory lane, the story of the small screen images (television) in Cameroon smacks of three episodes: the throttling beginning of the pioneer state-owned Cameroonian Television (CTV) as a "unit" in March 1985, sooner as an office, and later today's CRTV.

It enjoyed absolute monopoly up to the year 2000 when a liberalisation decree by the President of the Republic opened up to private ownership. This was followed by the consequential TV boom with its attendant impact on the population. | Back to summary

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(Source : Cameroon Tribune)

 KENYA: NEW PANEL TO DRIVE KENYA'S LOCAL CONTENT TO DIGITAL CONTENT

Kenya has started an ambitious journey for a slice of the lucrative creative industry, expected to see an explosion in local content as the country retires analogue for digital channels.

To drive this agenda, the government on Monday, through the Ministry of Information and Communications, formed a taskforce to look at how the country can leverage on local talent to spur the growth of visual effects and the marriage of information technology, animation, film and music. |  Back to summary

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(Source :  Daily Nation)

 KENYA: COMPUTER-GENERATED FILMS TO CUT PRODUCTION COSTS

Computer-generated television programmes and advertisements are set to cut production costs of local content by more than 100 per cent, increasing Kenya's creative industry's competitiveness at a time when it is battling it out with cheap foreign productions.

Use of visual effects and animation will enable producers save millions of shillings unlike currently where one has to shoot all the episodes on location which costs more. | Back to summary

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(Source :  Daily Nation)

AFRIQUECANADA.TV: PORTRAIT OF A NEW WEBTV FOCUSED ON AFRICA

With the steady arrival of broadband internet capacity on African coasts, internet use is due to explode over the next ten years on the continent. There is already a phenomenally high use of the internet among the 13-34 age range in some African regions, and new African media are being set up on the web.

AfriqueCanada.TV, a recently launched web TV channel is one of them. Balancing Act interviewed its CEO - William Muyuku | Back to summary

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(Source : Balancing Act)

  RWANDA SWITCHES TO DIGITAL BROADCASTING IN JANUARY 2011

The National Bureau for Information (ORINFOR) monopoly on the television broadcast industry in Rwanda has come to an end.

Rwanda will become the second East African Country after Kenya to switch to digital signal. Kenya switched to digital broadcasting last year and is in advanced stages to completely switch off analogue broadcasting, giving the country leverage over the rest of East African member states in using advanced broadcast technology.| Back to summary

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(Source : The Independent)

  SOUTH AFRICA: THE COUNTRY ADOPTS DVB-T2 DIGITAL TV STANDARD AND SCHEDULES DECEMBER 2012 CUT-OFF FOR ANALOGUE TV

South Africa will adopt the digital television standard DVB-T2 and the country will complete the process of migrating from analogue to digital television by December 2012, Communications Minister Roy Padayachie said. | Back to summary

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(Source : Mail and Guardian online)

 SOUTH AFRICA: DIGITAL TV CHOICE WILL 'PERPETUATE WHITE DOMINATION'

The National Association of Manufacturers in Electronics Components (Namec) will hold an urgent meeting this week to decide how best to contest cabinet's decision that SA will use the European standard for digital terrestrial television.

Association chairman Keith Thabo says its members are "especially hurt that this decision portrays us as a nation trapped in perpetual colonialisation" | Back to summary

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(Source : TechCentral)

 SES EYES AFRICA GROWTH WITH €1BN SATELLITES

Europe's SES group, which operates a worldwide fleet of more than 40 communications satellites, is establishing a bigger presence in SA ahead of the launch later this year of a new, high-capacity satellite to serve the region.| Back to summary

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(Source : TechCentral)

AFRICAN BROADCASTERS SEAL DEALS WITH CHINA, US

More international TV content is on the menu for African viewers in the new year, following new deals to broadcast the English language channel of China's Xinhua News Agency and celebrity entertainment from the US courtesy of BlackTree TV. From 1 January, China's 24-hour news channel CNC World will be distributed across Africa via MIH's cable network, which reaches an estimated four million homes. Back to summary

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(Source : RapidTVNews)

PAN AFRICAN MEDIA PORTAL TO LAUNCH IN MARCH

The African Union Commission (AUC) and the African Media Initiative (AMI) convened a meeting on the Pan African Media Portal (PAMP) in Nairobi, Kenya, on 21 December 2010. The AUC, A24 Media and AllAfrica Global Media, partners on the implementation of the project, attended the meeting.

The Nairobi gathering was a follow-up to the Informal Joint Experts Meeting organised by the AUC and the European Commission (EC) in Addis Ababa, 23-25 March 2010 on the theme media and development.| Back to summary

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(Source : Africa Bizcommunity)

MEDIA RESEARCH NEWS

TNS TO EXPAND IN AFRICA IN 2011

TNS, the global custom research company, recently announced the acquisition of a majority stake in the Research and Marketing Services group of companies (RMS) to add to its new regional framework of TNS Africa and Middle East that came into existence with effect from January 2010. | Back to summary

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(Source : Africa Bizcommunity)

 TELEVISION, NPL AND FOOTBALLERS' CAREER

Television has played a major role in modern football. Aside the monetary aspect which has been very vital in helping to create excellence both on and off the pitch, television changes everyone and everything that goes with the game of football.

For instance, when watching a documentary, it is important to understand that if people in the documentary realise that they are being videotaped, they will act in a manner that is in conformity with their profession. Human nature causes human beings to want to be seen differently on the screen . It makes people act more serious and some to goof. This effect can easily be felt in sport | Back to summary

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(Source : Leadership)

2011 ICT TRENDS FOR EMERGING AFRICA

The ICT sector is one of the fastest growing on the African continent. Fueled by heavy investments, telecommunication infrastructures have improved drastically. Over the past five years, Africans have embraced ICT innovations fast especially in the mobile telecommunications and in the IT segments.

The next wave that is about to hit the continent will include new infrastructures such as broadband fibre optic cables and data centres, telecoms added value services and IT innovations. Here is a review of 2010 and key trends to prepare for 2011 | Back to summary

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(Source : Africa Bizcommunity)

2011 TRENDS FOR AFRICA: A YEAR OF HARD WORK FOR BRANDS

If 2010 could be summed up as soccer, vuvuzelas and national pride, 2011 will be all about the hard work of restoring the economy to sustainable growth, paying attention to environmental concerns and mastering the technologies that are changing the world. Here are a few trends to watch in 2011. | Back to summary

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(Source : Africa Bizcommunity)