There were two pieces of good news on Friday, 14 January 2011, the first being that communications minister Roy Padayachie confirmed that South Africa will be adopting DVB-T2 as its standard for digital terrestrial television - sense has finally prevailed! - and the second, according to the Mail & Guardian Online, being that the ANC has "toned down its demands for a media appeals tribunal to give the media time 'to reform' themselves". In the meantime, I hope you are enjoying this year's batch of Trends Reports as much as I am - aren't they fascinating? You've only yourself to blame if you don't take heed of all these gems of knowledge. I would like to take the opportunity to thank all the contributors and my colleagues who have made this series of feature articles possible - you all rock. To the good news continuing! Simone Puterman (@SimoneBiz) Managing editor
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