The state controlled radio station, Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) has started preparations to rekindle the annual awards bestowed on the country's best entertainers, which slumped into hibernation after the company tasked to run it failed to conduct the event for three years. 12 Aug 2008
In order to create a consistent streetscape look and feel in Tshwane for the 2010 FIFA World Cup and beyond, the Tshwane Street Furniture Consortium, comprising Primedia Outdoor and Street Pole Ads, has signed a R69-million, 10-year contract with the Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality to provide modern and attractive new directional street name signs, it was announced yesterday, Monday, 11 August 2008. 12 Aug 2008
Zambia's Energy Regulation Board (ERB) announced in a statement released in Lusaka lats week that it has increased prices of all petroleum products. 12 Aug 2008
Alliance Media Uganda and Messrs Clear Channel Independent are at war. The two advertising agencies are fighting for the rights to manage advertising space at Entebbe International Airport causing confusion that could lead to major losses by key advertisers. 12 Aug 2008
Ongoing training should be part of newsrooms' agendas and journalists must move beyond reporting only on high-profile women to give full voice to women who live on the edge of society, ensuring that practical issues that directly affect them are sufficiently covered, Trevor Davies, Gender Links media trainer, told Bizcommunity.com yesterday, Monday, 11 August 2008, on the sidelines of the Gender and Media Summit currently taking place in Benoni on the Gauteng East Rand. 12 Aug 2008
The mobile channel is no longer just a support channel to Internet and other media. Mobile websites (mobisites) now stand on their own as tools to interact directly with people who have access to the Internet and those who do not in South Africa. 12 Aug 2008
The Bureau of Market Research will shortly be publishing a report entitled ‘Income and expenditure patterns of households in Gauteng, 2006', based on a study conducted in 2006 of the income and expenditure patterns of households in Gauteng. This study encompassed a survey involving a random sample of 520 households of all population groups living in urban areas of Gauteng. 12 Aug 2008
The Department of Communications' digital migration process will improve service delivery and further e-governance, says director general in the department Lyndall Shope-Mafole. Presenting key areas of Cabinet-approved Broadcasting Digital Migration (BDM) Policy recently, the director general said the digital migration process and the introduction of the Set-Top-Boxes (STB) will improve the capacity of government to deliver services to the people. 12 Aug 2008
In a turbulent economic environment it is essential for companies to re-evaluate their marketing strategies. According to Gary Nelson, CEO of Primedia Face 2 Face, “This is the time to cement brand loyalty with the mass consumer market. Getting buy-in to brands by displaying awareness of consumer's needs and continued interaction during an economic downturn will make sure that a brand is top of mind during the downturn and actively embraced in an upturn.” 12 Aug 2008
Reggie's Rush, South African television's longest running children's gaming show, turns 16 this year. Launched in 1992 by popular baby, toy and gaming store Reggie's, the show runs for 12 weeks in the last quarter of every year. 12 Aug 2008
A majority of Kenyans have at least two mobile lines - Safaricom, Zain and/or a Telkom Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) line. Usually, a mobile phone user will have one regular line influenced by which operator friends, relatives and business contacts use because it is cheaper to call within the same network and a second or third line used occasionally. 11 Aug 2008
The South African Gender and Media (SAGEM) Network is toasting its victory in getting a Steers advertisement pulled off the air by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). 11 Aug 2008
Zimbabwe's insurance companies, which have grappled with a major marketing nightmare posed by the fast erosion of the country's domestic currency, are reportedly battling to reach for a new lifeline in the form of foreign currency-denominated policies. 11 Aug 2008
As African economies move towards the global order of cashless economies, an expert has called for the adoption of a trans-continental electronic payment platform, which supports trade and cash management as the only means to fast-track efforts towards African integration. 11 Aug 2008
Popular radio presenter Kevin Fine is joining the 94.7Highveld Stereo lineup on a freelance basis, it was announced late last week. 11 Aug 2008
More than 200 delegates from 15 SADC countries, US, India, Sweden and Kenya, and from all sectors - media practitioners, monitors and trainers, gender activists and concerned ordinary citizens - have convened today at the Kopanong Hotel in Benoni on the East Rand, for a two-day Gender and Media (GEM) Summit, amid the outcry over the lack of women's voices in media coverage and lack of women in media houses. 11 Aug 2008
Malawi will, from 26-28 August 2008, host Africa's leading ICT Forum called the Third Annual Connecting Rural Communities Africa Forum at Capital Hotel in Lilongwe. 11 Aug 2008
NEWSWATCH: A “U-turn” decision by the minister of communications Ivy Matsepe-Cassaburri to have an open and non-discriminatory policy on digital video broadcasting-handheld (DVBH) - and more than once licence holder - has been welcomed by the telecommunications industry, writes Business Report. 11 Aug 2008
Private-equity firms are becoming increasingly active in the emerging markets of Africa, as the slowdown in the developed markets drives investors to seek opportunities in its burgeoning resource-rich, consumer-driven economies. 11 Aug 2008
TechnoPark, the science and technology facilitator of Economics Zones World announced that the World Association of Industrial and Technological Research Organisations' (WAITRO) executive committee has unanimously chosen TechnoPark to serve as the organisation's regional focal point (RFP) for the Middle East and North Africa region from July 2008 to June 2010. 11 Aug 2008
