Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:
■ Pay-TV abused its position to get as much money as it could from sports viewers, and didn't want to offer sports, news and entertainment in separate packages. Now it's starting to pay the price.
Now that there isn't any sport on TV in America - similar to the situation with SuperSport in South Africa and across sub-Saharan Africa - subscribers are cord-cutting in record numbers and switching to video streaming services.
■ Ridiculously amazing: Xiaomi unveils a transparent, see-through flat-screen TV set.
When the TV set is switched off, the display looks like a clear piece of glass. And when it’s turned on, images appear to float in thin air.
■ Video streaming services are driving the commissioning of gay TV content.
■ A lot of TV shows now have one thing in common ...
■ The lifespan of TV series on video streaming services is shrinking.
A series on SVOD now only lasts between 3 to 4 seasons.
■ A challenging time for television in Tanzania.
Authoritarian government in East African country continues to destroy its media landscape with draconian new broadcasting regulations banning foreign content.
■ In-fighting behind-the-scenes at Ghetto TV in Uganda.
■ Drama series White Lines on Netflix canned after one season.
■ "It's dangerous not to see race": Is colour-blind casting all it's cracked up to be?
■ Kenya's former Citizen TV anchor, Joey Muthengi reveals her years-long eating disorder: "I starved myself to maintain that great image on TV".
■ The 30-second TV is history. But what now?
■ Facebook bans blackface, anti-Semitic stereotypes.
Social network expands racist ban on writings and imagery in expanding hate speech policy.
■ Sky News (DStv 402 / StarSat 258) and BBC World News (DStv 400 / StarSat 256) accused of voyeurism in their coverage of migrant boats.
Live TV news footage described as dehumanising and "grotesque reality TV show".
■ The non-TV story of the day: American aquarium is washing old wishes to pay bills during Covid-19 pandemic.
Tossed coins scrubbed to pay bills.
