CNBC Africa's new CNBC Africa Studio launching Thursday at the JSE; the start of integrating reporting from all bureaus from the JSE.

CNBC Africa (DStv 410) plans to launch the business TV channel's new CNBC Africa Studio at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) this coming Thursday morning, 15 May - with CNBC Africa attempting to eventually unify and integrate reporting from all of its bureaus from the JSE.

The CNBC Africa Studio at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange took seven years to come to fruition, the business channel molding itself after what CNBC in the United States did the past 25 years reporting from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and having a studio there.

CNBC Africa's South African shows like Open Exchange, Power Lunch and Closing Bell will now be done from the CNBC Africa studios at the JSE. Further new programming is also being planned.

"The new studio will be equipped with state of the art technology," says Jean Landsberg, CNBC Africa's head of operations and project head for CNBC Africa's studio launch at the JSE.

"While we have been reporting from the JSE and other major exchanges including the Nigerian Stock Exchange since our launch, today marks another milestone as we will be the first television network with the ability to uplink live directly from the JSE and integrate all our bureaus directly from the JSE," says Rakesh Wahi, the founder and vice chairperson of the ABN group.

"Our objective is to eventually unify reporting simultaneously from all exchanges in Africa," says Rakesh Wahi who plans to do the official ribbon-cutting of the CNBC Africa Studio inside the JSE at One Exchange Square in Sandton this Thursday.

CNBC Africa wants to do more live coverage from the JSE - Africa's largest stock exchange - with the new on-site studio. CNBC Africa will have the potential of doing up to 14 hours of business news coverage per day from the studio eventually.

"This project was part of our plan since 2007 and we were finally able to see it to fruition," says Roberta Naidoo, CNBC Africa's group managing director.

BREAKING. CNBC Africa opens 9th news bureau in Africa in Rwanda; wants to open bureaus in Uganda, Tanzania and Botswana next quarter.

CNBC Africa (DStv 410) is opening the African business channel's 9th African news bureau in the Rwanda capital Kigali.

"The company's presence in Rwanda marks yet another milestone in CNBC Africa's brief history," says Robert Naidoo, managing director of the ABN Group. "By 2014 we hope to be in 20 African countries, making us the only media company in Africa providing comprehensive business and economic news from across the continent."

Rwanda marks CNBC Africa's 3rd bureau to open this year following Zambia in July and Mozambique in May.

CNBC Africa's other news bureaus are located in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Gabon and Namibia. CNBC Africa plans to open further news bureaus in Uganda, Tanzania and Botswana in the next quarter of this year.

CNBC Africa to turn 5 years old on 1 June will special TV documentaries, testimonials from reporters and anchors and short TV specials.

CNBC Africa (DStv 410) will turns 5 years old on 1 June and the African business news channel will celebrate its 5th anniversary as a TV channel with special documentaries; memorial testimonials by the network's reporters and anchors of the most memorable events of the past five years at CNBC Africa as well as short special features featuring African highlights.

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CNBC Africa, launched on 1 June 2007 says in a just-issued press statement that it is "still Africa's first - and still the only - real-time continental financial and business news network. Part of the global CNBC family, which reports around the clock from major financial centres worldwide, it boasts bureaux in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Nairobi, Lagos, Abuja, Windhoek, Libreville, Lusaka and Maputo."

CNBC Africa says it plans to diversify CNBC Africa's content and to extend broadcasting hours in the next two years. "Our mission remains unaccomplished as long as there are markets and economies that go unreported in Africa," says Godfrey Mutizwa, CNBC Africa's chief editor.

CNBC Africa co-founder and chairperson Zafar Siddiqi says CNBC Africa will continue to provide Africa's business and economic leaders a "critical news service for a very long time to come."

"CNBC Africa has grown beyond all expectations since it was launched five years ago, and everyone on the CNBC Africa team is justifiably proud of the respected media brand that they have all helped to create," says Zafar Siffiqi.

CNBC Africa will be adopting the theme of "Celebrate Africa!" in June as part of its 5th birthday month.

"Now more than ever, in these times of globaluncertainty and the emergence of Africa as an economic crossroads of the world, we need excellence in our own financial journalism. The success of countries, companies and individuals hangs on the flow of great and timely information - and CNBC Africa will always be the place to find it," says Roberta Naidoo, ABN managing director.


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