News

Industries

Companies

Jobs

Events

People

Video

Audio

Galleries

My Biz

Submit content

My Account

Advertise with us

Maggs, Direko to join e.tv

Top journalists Jeremy Maggs and Redi Direko are to anchor e.tv's 24 hour news channel, which will to be launched later this year, the broadcaster announced today, Friday, 8 February 2008.

e.news editor-in-chief, Debora Patta says, “I am delighted that journalists of the calibre of Redi and Jeremy are joining our team. They will be part of a large team of broadcast journalists delivering an independent and reliable news service 24 hours a day.

“It's an exciting time to be a broadcast journalist in South Africa and e.news as always will be developing fresh and dynamic talent.”

Last year e.tv announced that it will initiate its multi-channel strategy in 2008 with the launch of South Africa's first independent 24-hour television news service on Multichoice's DSTV platform.

Jeremy Maggs is one of South Africa's most experienced television, radio and print journalists. He has previously held the positions of news editor at Talk Radio 702, hosted AM Live on SAFM and presented AM 2 Day.

Soweto-born Redi Direko is an experienced television and radio journalist who studied journalism and philosophy at RAU (now the University of Johannesburg). Direko will continue to host her weekday talk show on Talk Radio 702 and 567 Cape Talk.

Let's do Biz