Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:
■ South Africa's boxing community furious at the SABC over false promises, delays.
SABC slammed by boxers‚ trainers‚ promoters and Boxing SA (BSA) officials over its lack of communication. Even the press can't reach the SABC.
■ A Cosatu public protest could be coming to Newlands on Saturday over the lack of free-to-air coverage
of Springbok rugby test that's only being shown live on SuperSport on MultiChoice's DStv, depriving millions of South Africans from seeing it due to the SABC's failure.
"People who cannot afford DStv are treated like second hand citizens of South Africa," says Cosatu.
■ The duration of TV commercials in America keeps shrinking.
■ Jeffrey Katzenberg is looking for a massive amount of money for his new TV start-up plan.
Wants to create New TV - the mobile smartphone version of HBO with expensive TV shows costing $100 000 per episode, Game of Thrones type shows that's 10 minutes long.
■ More on Star Trek The Next Generation turning 30 years old.
- And Star Trek: Discovery becomes one of the most pirated shows in less than 24 hours.
■ Peak TV is pushing TV show budgets to the breaking point as costs skyrocket. TV channels are burning cash to meet the soaring per-episode costs of shows like Game of Thrones.
- Something is wrong: TV simply can't support this big expansion this quickly. Is out-of-control per-episode costs going to kill Peak TV?
■ Hilariously lying TStv hyperbole as the new Nigerian satellite pay-TV operator says it will employ 5 000 people.
- And more falsehoods as TStv claims its available 24 hours per day - if only TStv actually responded to media enquiries from the press as well.
- "TStv can't compete with DStv" and the TStv offering looks more like "emotional marketing.
■ Namibia's public broadcaster Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) wants to force Namibians to pay their TV licence fees ... with enforcement help from the police.
Namibians are up in arms and like in South Africa with the SABC, Namibians say the NBC should first improve its actual bad content.
■ Uganda's broadcasting regulator does hard censorship.
The despotic Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) bans live TV and radio broadcasts from showing Uganda citizens what's happening in their own parliament.
■ The evolution of Tom Welling: From Smallville to Lucifer.
Tom Welling on why he is back on TV 6 years after Smallville ended.
■ Shocking social media censorship coming to Tanzania in draconian new law.
Even TV channels will have to "apply for registration".
■ Iran to launch its first TV channel packaged for Africa.
■ A TV trash Obama.
An uproar in Cameroon over the trash presenter Ernest Obama at Vision 4 who continues his hate speech on television.
