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Saturday, September 5, 2026

People's Planet Shutters After 16 Years as 'We Ran out of Shelf Space', Content Catalogue Remains Available for International Sales

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by Thinus Ferreira The People's Planet channel, which launched as People's Weather in 2010, has gone dark after 16 years. People...
Thursday, September 3, 2026

Raffaele Annecchino, Former Paramount International President and CEO, passes away aged 55

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by Fathima Beckmann Raffaele Annecchino, a transformative figure in the global media industry and former president and CEO of Paramount In...
Tuesday, September 1, 2026

No Apple TV Price Increase for South Africa, This Time, Like in the US

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by Thinus Ferreira Apple is not doing its latest price increase for Apple TV for South Africa, the company confirmed to TVwithThinus . Last ...
Monday, August 31, 2026

Fired eNCA Reporter Heidi Giokos Resurfaces at SABC News as Weekend The Fullview Presenter

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by Thinus Ferreira After Heidi Giokos was fired by eNCA (DStv 403), the reporter is resurfacing at SABC News (DStv 404), where she will now ...

Land of Mills & Money As Yet Another New e.tv Telenovela Starts - As You Can Rightly Wonder What Happened to e.tv Trying to Get the Press' Attention

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by Thinus Ferreira Yet another new telenovela is being rolled out this evening on e.tv, but the days of e.tv publicity actually properly eng...

eMedia's Openview Dumps People's Planet After 6 Years, Replaces it from September with In-house Packaged eXplore Channel

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by Thinus Ferreira eMedia's Openview free-to-air satellite service has decided to dump People's Planet and to replace it from 1 Sept...
Sunday, August 30, 2026

IN IMAGES. 50 Photos of National Geographic's LION launch event and 2026 Programming Upfront

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by Thinus Ferreira Disney Africa recently held a wonderful media event and screening in Johannesburg of National Geographic's latest Lio...