Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:
■ It didn't take long for Nigerians to become skeptical over the new pay-TV bride, TStv.
Can new Nigerian pay-TV operator TStv be trusted over its brand promises? Can it provide the required high-quality content that Nigerians already get with DStv?
- In a rush to embrace TStv, Nigerians fail to ask the tough questions.
- TStv CEO Bright Echefu is apparently not the Bright Echefu embroiled in a court case for fraud.
■ TStv is engulfed in a content theft scandal just days after launch as Turner Broadcasting System warns TStv not to broadcast CNN International that is on MultiChoice DStv.
-Meanwhile beIN also warned TStv and sent a cease and desist letter - none of the advertised beIN channels are allowed on TStv. TStv says the letters are fake.
BUT Turner Broadcasting System Africa tells TVwithThinus TStv is definitely using CNN's brand illegally and has been warned in a letter to stop.
■ Meanwhile, hilariously, rumours are flying that it is MultiChoice Nigeria that is causing TStv's bad news. Could DStv possibly be "behind all the negative media TStv is getting to mar the good reception it's been getting from Nigerians?"
■ Shonda Rhimes discusses her move away from ABC to Netflix.
■ Namibian police are clueless as to how they're supposed to check for TV licences in Namibia.
Namibia now wants its police service to "compel" Namibian citizens to pay their TV licence fees. The police says they know nothing and got no "directives" from the government.
■ Zimbabwe's broadcasting regulator wants to ban Kwesé TV again.
The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) is at it again, again approaching Zimbabwe's High Court after its loss last month to try and bar Kwesé TV from operating.
■ I've never thought of this!: Why are there so many Kevins on TV?
On American TV, one name for characters reign supreme.
■ TV news reporter worked herself to death.
Poor Miwa Sado of Japan's NKH in Tokyo died from "karoshi" - death from overwork.
■ Now Ghana is going to force TV stations to broadcast 70% local content during prime time.
Where will already struggling TV channels already offering trash content find the money to produce and show so much local content that cost more to make?
