| If you take the general statistics that young people are found to be mostly prone to job hopping and one of the reasons given was the persuit of the better income, this kind of puts a spanner on the research. I mean I get that people will always look for job satisfaction and that the deffinition thereof differs from generation to generation but cash will always be king! |
| Icasa hasn't given any dates even though the deadline for submission of the proposals was Nov last year. The delay I think was to squize in an applicant who hadn't made deadline maybe after having studied the other applications (who knows). But its looking more like August/September...almost a year into the first deadline date. |
| An unenviable job indeed, a huge job awaits her and I hope she's up for the task. I'm not too sure what they mean by assisting the programming department on a freelance bases, does this mean they are still searching for a programmes manager who'll be full time, is she consulting? The metro brand has been deteriorating over the yrs and when they hired Segale who hadn't programmed anything in his entire radio career, it was another example of the direction the entire organisation was taking when it came to making appointments. |
Who funds these researches? I'm not a broadcaster but I can deffinately tell you whats wrong with the SABC, maybe I need to move into research and make some extra bucks for myself. Just to tell you that when The CEO got there he created a big structure called the group executive, who were made up of cronies, friends, deployees and yes man all in an effort to create something that he can call his and also to please those people that pushed for him to get the position both at Luthuli house and in the board. Thereby setting into motion a ripple effect of corrupt activities with some board members calling in the favour on the exec in return for them getting their undeserved positions, and the execs wanting to cash-in as quickly as possible before the whole thing caves in on them, which meant that they spent more time attending to board members requests and also pushing their own business then attending to the corporation's business.
Wich meant that the GM's or unit managers could do with the corporations resources as they pleased as long as they kept the execs happy, which lead to further corruption and mismanagement of funds. Managers, GM's, Execs were free to do as they pleased and hire whom ever they pleased without regards for the HR requirements of the corporation, cos lets face it that went out the window when Dali was hired. An incompetent CEO hires and incompetent exec who hire incompetent managers and the ripple effect goes on. Even the competent stuff gets criticised for their competencies and are left stegnant in the same positions for yrs because they are not willing to tow the line and listen to foney consultants telling them what they read abt on their introduction class at varsity. they see incompetent, in-experienced people get into powerful positions (and we all know how dangerous fools with power can be). This leads to an exodus of talent from the SABC............................the effects are endless |
I agree with Maphai, what I've also noticed is that we hardly ever have product placement on our local programmes. This I believe is a less intrusive way of exposing products to a specific market without taking away from the creative quality of the programme, this can be achieved through visuals or mentions. I believe that production houses have to be incentifised for coming up with creative ways including products to their story-lines, the best watched local soapy ( Generations ) has no product placement and why that is.....baffles me they have a bar called Tsalanang with no single authentic product on their shelf. I know they used to have Amstel at some stage but something went sour with that deal, I also know that PEP did something with them and that was commendable.
But I believe more can be done in this avenue, on both the story side to make it more believable and we may even have products written into the story which would make for a good flow in the final product. This would require this would require more collaboration between production companies and content managers. Companies can run full campains on a production as long as proper communications between all stakeholders is good. |
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