Monday, October 26, 2020

TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read - 26 October 2020.

Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:


■ SABC3's Expresso presenter Katlego Maboe and that sexually transmitted disease (STD): No place to hide for TV personality.
Allegedly also cheated on Monique Muller while she was pregnant with their son and multiple other times claims her brother Seth Muller.

Alleges that she got a restraining order the first time he hit her: "When the first physical attack happened, I got a protection order against him. He then admitted to sleeping with this woman".





Why are some people making the Katlego Maboe cheating and alleged abuse scandal about the issue that the shocking video should have been kept private, instead of the serious contents of the video?


- 25 million pay-TV subscribers to cancel over next 5 years; 

- Pay-TV operators no longer care whether customers subscribe or not but just keep increasing prices;
- billions in losses in revenue for Disney, NBCUniversal, WarnerMedia, ViacomCBS, Fox, Discovery Inc., AMC Networks;
- golden goose of bundling TV channels dying;
- Video streaming not the saviour and not superior;
- pay-TV channels like ESPN likely to cut back on programming, that will likely lead to less viewers;
- the total TV channels bundle is going to shrink





Absurd tax is similar to King William III of England who introduced a daylight tax in 1696, causing people to brick up their windows to block the sunlight.

- Attorney: Neither MultiChoice nor Netflix SA is obliged to accept the responsibility of collecting SABC TV Licence fees.

The SABC needs to choose whether it is a public broadcaster or a commercial competitor, it cannot be both.

Advertisers and the public have been given every reason to tune out of the SABC. The SABC doesn't even know who has a TV set.





Growing evidence that the video streamer is close to saturating its biggest markets.

"I have made mistakes along the way."


Diego Demarco of the TV news channel En Vivo El Nueve mugged in Buenos Aires, Argentina.





Drama continues over disastrous Dinner at Somizi on M-Net's 1Magic (DStv 103) that is allegedly content theft of Hastings Moeng's original idea.