Here is your first look at eNews' new Afrikaans anchor, TV reporters and the team who will be responsible for doing a new daily Afrikaans news bulletin for kykNET (DStv 111) from most probably sometime in August. eNews just revealed that the bulletin will be called eNuus.
I told you RIGHT HERE in April that e.tv and kykNET is talking about e.tv possibly doing an Afrikaans news bulletin for kykNET and I was first RIGHT HERE to tell you that Freek Robinson from the SABC will be the anchor of the new Afrikaans daily bulletin that will be going out probably at 19:00 at the same time as SABC2's Nuus om 7.
''The Afrikaans news team will deliver an Afrikaans news service to kykNET,'' says e.tv. ''It will be an extension of the e trademark and will be called eNuus.''
eNuus will resort under the management and editorial control of eNews and will be led by Andries Cornelissen as news editor. The veteran broadcast journalist Freek Robinson will be the main anchor of the eNuus bulletin. The eNuus team consist out of LiMari Louw, Genee Heyl and Anina Peens with sport news covered by Jean-Paul Keyter and Francois Nolte.
''The team will start training in the eNews work system and get to know their colleagues better at eNews Prime Time, the eNews Channel (DStv 403) and eNews Africa,'' says Patrick Conroy, group head: eNews. e.tv says the exact launch date of eNuus will still be confirmed while the team focus on training and preparing for the new half hour Afrikaans news bulletin that is set to shake up the Afrikaans TV news business.
I just spoke to Haddad Viljoen, kykNET spokesperson who tells me: ''We're very excited. kykNET is immensely looking forward to working with the expertise of e.tv's eNews division and bringing their excellent news gathering skill to our channel. We're looking forward to this project since we're always looking at ways of enhancing our offering for our viewers - which we believe eNuus certainly will be doing.''
