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So who's who on the SABC interim board?

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:31:00 +0200

The selections for the broadcaster's interim board cover range of expertise.
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Ordering media services, no mess and no fuss!

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:08:00 +0200

It is hard for media clients to get exactly what they want from media agencies, especially when conducting a transaction via the internet. This is because each business organisation has specific media requirements when it comes to conducting a transaction.
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Using maps to get to grips with SAARF data

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:36:00 +0200

USING RESEARCH BETTER: Previously in our series on how to get the most out of SAARF's media audience currencies, I explained how a CHAID analysis can be a valuable starting point when first investigating a market. Here are two further tools which can help turn the SAARF data into media, market and brand insight.
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Africa Business Reporting Awards 2009 winners announced

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:04:00 +0200

Diageo announced the winners of the 6th Africa Business Reporting Awards at a gala ceremony at Sheraton Park Lane, Piccadilly, London last night, 2 July 2009. Xan Rice from The Guardian and the New Statesman won the award for Journalist of the Year 2009.
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TVIEC to meet communications minister

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:15:00 +0200

The TV Industry Emergency Coalition (TVIEC) is to meet Communications Minister Nyanda today, Friday 3 July 2009, in order to counter what the organisation says is false information from the SABC, and to make the minister fully aware of the impact of the crisis at the broadcaster on the TV and production industries. The TVIEC has issued the following statement...
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Primedia Broadcasting restructures production unit

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:57:00 +0200

Primedia Broadcasting announced its latest restructure yesterday, 1 July 2009. The restructuring entails a revamp of its creative and production teams that will now all fall under the new 'Production Unit'.
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Putting the appeal of Brand 2010 into perspective

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:21:00 +0200

Of every 100 football fans considering coming to South Africa for next year's 2010 FIFA World Cup, I estimate that 90 will already have decided to come, while a further eight will be wondering whether they can afford it given the global economic meltdown and only two might still be vacillating as a result of crime levels in this country.
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Broadcaster fails in bid to stop strike

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:03:00 +0200

NEWSWATCH: Unions are happy that they have defeated a bid by the SABC to stop them striking; the Johannesburg Labour Court yesterday dismissed the broadcaster's bid to prevent the strike, reports IOL, which also reports that the unions are unfazed by the broadcaster's ‘no work, no pay' policy. Meanwhile, Rhoda Kadalie, human rights activist, writing in Business Day, provides a blow-by-blow account of how - and why - the national broadcaster has gone downhill.
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Parly gives go-ahead for SABC board dissolution

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:01:00 +0200

The National Assembly has given the go-ahead for the dissolution of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board.
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Value for money monitoring

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:03:00 +0200

In these times of acute financial difficulty it is even more imperative to obtain value for money from your media monitoring service. Not only that, but you need to know that the company that you entrust with your media monitoring continues to be viable and will survive the current conditions.
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