On Thursday a veritable crush collection
of media, high profile TV channel executives, as well as the top TV bosses from
MultiChoice, M-Net and SuperSport will be descending on Magaliesburg in Gauteng.
What awaits is a jam-packed two-day TV
enclave where channel and content executives will talk television, unveil
programming, and are also set to make some major announcements at the
MultiChoice Media Showcase 2017.
At the MultiChoice Media Showcase 2017,
MultiChoice South Africa executives as well as some of the individual TV
channel brands available on DStv will make presentations and do panel sessions
and will see a large number of information being shared with TV critics and
journalists covering television.
Presentations will range from channels
like M-Net, kykNET, National Geographic and SuperSport to, for instance, BBC
Worldwide Africa and Mzansi Magic who will all do panel sessions during which a
a large number of information will be shared with TV critics and journalists
covering television.
The two-day MultiChoice Media Showcase
2017 taking place over Thursday and Friday will be filled with content sharing
as media from a wide range of outlets converge for the multi-structured TV info
bonanza.
Journalists from across South Africa
will partake in panel sessions and various TV presentations, question and
answer opportunities – and a few surprises – as media gets the opportunity to
interact with TV executives and a gaggle of local TV presenters and celebrities.
MultiChoice says its doing the
MultiChoice Media Showcase 2017 – something it's done in the past in South
Africa but not to this extent – to inform the media about the pay-TV operator's latest developments and programming updates and changes.
“The MultiChoice Media Showcase is
about giving the media insight into our world of entertainment, showcasing our
content across the DStv channels and also making some key announcements about
our channels and services over the two days," says the Randburg-based pay-TV
operator.
"This is also an opportunity to interact
with our executives and communication professionals from across the MultiChoice
South Africa group".
MultiChoice says executives from
MultiChoice South Africa, M-Net and SuperSport will present at the MultiChoice Media Showcase 2017.
This includes appearances by Mark Rayner, MultiChoice
South Africa CEO; Aletta Alberts,MultiChoice head of content; Yolisa Phahle,
M-Net CEO; Nkateko Mabaso, M-Net South Africa group general manager; Jan du
Plessis, M-Net channels channel director; Karen Meiring, kykNET channels
channel director; Reneilwe Sema, M-Net channel director for local entertainment
channels, and Gideon Khobane, SuperSport CEO.
Also invited to present and talk at the
two-day Magaliesburg TV confab are international channel and content partners
and executives representing international TV channel brands.
Hamish Mykura, the executive vice
president of programming and development for National Geographic is in South
Africa and will for the first time meet and address the large South African
media contingent since the yellow frame channel group launched in South Africa
and Africa a number of years ago.
The Johannesburg-based Joel Churcher,
vice president and general manager for BBC Worldwide Africa and just back from
the BBC’s annual BBC Content Showcase 2017 in Liverpool, will also make a showing
to present.
Meanwhile local TV stars and various
presenters from across shows on DStv will join some of the presentations as
well as for the evening function taking place on Thursday.
MultiChoice says approximately 50 media
across television, entertainment and technology publications from across print,
broadcast and online will attend the MultiChoice Content Showcase 2017.
MultiChoice did a general media
engagement almost a decade ago in Magaliesburg but that 2017 two-day TV tour
will dwarf the one before.
Why it chose Magaliesburg, MultiChoice
says "We wanted a venue that will allow us to give the media undivided
attention for the time we are there. It also gives us the opportunity to engage
more informally outside of the presentations".
The hashtag for the MultiChoice Content
Showcase 2017 on social media will be #DStv2017
