Showing posts with label Tim Horwood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tim Horwood. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
MTV Base going 'glocal' in 2016: The Viacom Africa channel plans a new local Daily News show; local versions of Lip Sync Battle and Ridiculousness.
MTV Base (DStv 322) is planning on going "glocal" in 2016 - the channel will launch a brand new daily news show, localise the clip show Ridiculousness, and do a local version of Lip Sync Battle.
MTV Base channel director Tim Horwood who is also the creative director for Viacom International Media Networks Africa (VIMN Africa) made the announcements last week at VIMN Africa's Media Day held on Wednesday.
The VIMN Africa Media Day was held in Johannesburg for press and TV critics, with OgilvyPR who invited journalists to it less than 24 hours before it took place.
MTV Base's new daily news show with a working title of MTV Base Daily News, will discuss actuality and popular culture news stories from mostly South Africa and Nigeria has no definite starting date in 2016 yet.
The show will be panel-based like The Real on SABC3, and will integrate live social media input in the show to give it a sense of immediacy and daily relevance.
According to MTV Base 2016 will also see a second season of the local prank show #YouGotGot from April which is also going international.
VIMN Africa will attempt to do a local version of the clip show Ridiculousness, there will be a new round of the MTV Base VJ Search and programming Behind the Story and Between the Video.
Lip Sync Battle that's been showing on MTV, MTV Base and e.tv will see a localised version in 2016 on MTV Base in which well-known personalities compete by dancing and lip-singing to well-known hits.
Meanwhile BET (DStv 129) - now only available on MultiChoice's DStv and only as a single channel from December after it was killed off on StarTimes Media SA's StarSat and the two BET channels on DStv were reduced to one - will in 2016 broadcast a Hurricane Katrina special as well as a OJ Simpson documentary.
Friday, September 4, 2015
Viacom at the MultiChoice Content Showcase 2015: 'We're not just in the business of creating TV - but experiences'.
Viacom International Media Networks Africa (VIMN Africa) told Africa's press on Friday morning that it's not just in the business of creating and bringing viewers TV content "but experiences".
VIMN Africa runs channels like MTV, MTV Base, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., NickToons, Comedy Central and various BET channels on MultiChoice's DStv satellite pay-TV platform and On Digital Media (ODM) and StarTimes Media SA's StarSat.
VIMN Africa was the second electronic media content provider presenting on Friday morning at the 5 day MultiChoice Content Showcase in Mauritius held at the Outrigger Mauritius Resort & Spa for the continent's press and TV critics.
MultiChoice however excluded South Africa's press and TV critics from attending the MultiChoice Content Showcase and MultiChoice didn't inform South African journalists covering the TV industry beforehand that the event would be taking place.
For the VIMN Africa panel discussion and press conference VIMN Africa flew over executives like Evert van der Veer (head of comedy for Africa), Tasania Parsadh (the senior channel manager of Nickelodeon in Africa) and Tim Horwood (VIMN Africa creative director and channel director for MTV Base).
VIMN Africa made several announcements at the MultiChoice Content Showcase to journalists, including that it's working on creating an African version of the successful American Black Girls Rock awards.
VIMN Africa is also working on a Nigerian version of the family friendly festival NickFest for West Africa.
VIMN Africa will show Nickelodeon's Genius on NickToons (DStv 308) from June 2016 - a brand-new educational quiz show aimed at kids between 9 and 13 - a math and science quiz show that will encourage boys and girls to learn more about these subjects in Africa.
VIMN Africa is teasing that the 3rd Comedy Central Roast of... on the African channel version of Comedy Central and following those of Steve Hofmeyr and Kenny Kunene, could very well be a famous personality from ... Nigeria.
VIMN Africa said its working on "themed events" for channels like MTV (DStv 130), Comedy Central (DStv 122), MTV Base (DStv 322), Nickelodeon (DStv 305) and BET (DStv 129).
Programming wise the new season of weekday talker The Wendy Williams Show will start in mid-September on BET, again showing episodes in South Africa and across Africa on the same day as broadcast in the United States - beating even M-Net's (DStv 101) daily Ellen DeGeneres Show in topicality and quickness to African audiences.
New African entertainment news show BET Buzz just started on 1 September on BET on weekdays.
The 4th season of dramatic edu-tainment series Shuga will start on 13 September on MTV Base.
The reality competition show Top Actor SA has been renewed for a second season and will start in early 2016 on BET.
The mocku-reality show 4th season of Real Husbands of Hollywood will start on BET on 15 November.
VIMN Africa said it will continue to bring African viewers - including those watching in South Africa - Viacom's series of American awards shows: MTV EMAs (25 October on MTV and MTV Base), the MTV Movie Awards (April 2016 on MTV and MTV Base), BET Honors (February 2016 on BET), the BET Hip Hop Awards (October 2015 on BET), Black Girls Rock (April 2016 on BET) and the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards (March 2016 on Nickelodeon).
VIMN Africa said its celebrating its 10th anniversary by making "its biggest ever investment in content for African audiences".
"We are excited about our 2015/2016 slate of high-quality content that will engage our African viewers across multiple genres, including stand-up comedy, music specials, entertainment news, chart shows and awards properties," said Alex Okosi, the senior vice president and managing director of VIMN Africa, in a statement.
Saturday, July 18, 2015
Trophy for the 2015 MTV Africa Music Awards on MTV Base undergoes a colourful change; ditches the gold for a multi-coloured makeover.
Viacom International Media Networks Africa (VIMN Africa) which runs MTV Base and the MAMAs last year announced that the trophy from now on will be refreshed and tweaked when the award show takes place.
The trophy's basic new design which was introduced last year remains which was designed by the husband-and-wife design duo Adriaan Hugo and Katy Taplin of Dokter And Misses in Braamfontein.
The "M"-block forming the base of the trophy also remains silver in colour, but the "TV" and the interconnected cogs and industrial machinery look forming the African continent are now in different colours.
The previous "cog-like" circles have also been changed into hexagonal shapes, more resembling the DNA-ish look of the MAMAs logo.
The new 2015 MTV Africa Music Awards trophy which will be handed out in several categories tonight, now sports pink, purple, turquoise and navy blue colours.
The new 2015 MAMAs trophy was unveiled Friday night at the pre-event press conference held at the Playhouse Theatre.
"This year we've changed and gone for a more colourful approach, whereas last year it was a gold trophy," says Tim Horwood, MTV Base channel director. "This year the trophy is more colourful which we feel represents the vibrancy and youth culture that we're all here to celebrate and it represents Africa emerging".
Friday, June 5, 2015
MTV Base's 2015 MAMAs looking for 4 hard-working, clever kids to work at the music awards show on 18 July in Durban.
You don't need a mop to work for mama. The 2015 MAMAs taking place on 18 July in Durban is looking for a dancer, a photographer, a social media journalist and a videographer - talented young people who just need that one chance to prove themselves to South Africa's showbiz world.
The 2015 MTV Africa Music Awards, or 2015 MAMAs which will be shown on MTV Base (DStv 322) on 18 July as well as sister channels Comedy Central Africa (DStv 122) and MTV (DStv 130) will be giving four young people the chance to shine at the Durban International Convention Centre.
The dancer will get the chance to appear on stage, while the other three will be working behind-the-scenes and alongside the red carpet in the pressure cooker entertainment biz environment of a live awards show and made-for-TV event.
As usual the MAMAs will be filled with celebrities and entourages, producers, TV and music executives, and the person who has to run with a mobile hairdryer in front of a vain star or two to make their new weave look as if it's naturally blowing in a soft breeze.
It's at the same time very hard work, very surreal but also very entertaining and rewarding.
Viacom International Media Networks International Africa (VIMN Africa) is looking for a twerking Miley type dancer with the moves and charisma to light up the stage, a photographer with a knack for capturing the perfect moment, a social media journalist who can hashtag Face Insta Whatsapp tweet like a Kim K, and a videographer who's a walking talking steadicam.
"This is the chance for keen young creatives to prove themselves at Africa's biggest event," says Tim Horwood, MTV Base channel director.
"With the help of talented newcomers with a fresh perspective, we can make the best show in Africa even better, while simultaneously offering them the opportunity to gain real-life experience and add weight and depth to their CVs," says Tim Horwood.
MTV Base will cover all travel and accommodation costs for the four people across the weekend of 18 July.
How to enter
People who want to enter to be a dancer must upload a 15 second clip to Instagram showing MTV Base the kind of moves the producers of the 2015 MAMAs can expect and should hashtag the video with #MAMAdancer and tag @MTVBreaks.
The awards show is also on the hunt for a talented camera person to work with the MTV Base production team to capture the content for the What Went Down MAMAs 2015 documentary. People who want to enter need to upload a 15 second clip to Instagram that best showcases their camera skills with the hashtag #MAMAcamera and tag it @MTVBreaks.
For the chance to work as a photographer and represent MTV Base on the red carpet, snapping the images to be used for MTV and MTV Base's digital platforms across Africa, photographers must capture an awesome action shot and upload it to Instagram using the hashtag @MAMAphotographer and tag it @MTVBreaks.
To be the social media voice of MTV and MTV Base across their social media platforms during the 2015 MAMAs, anyone can tweet a commentary to their favourite MTV music video or MTV show. People should send at least 5 tweets so the producers can get a taste of the person's creative style and must hashtag every twee #MTVBreaks and #SM.
Monday, June 9, 2014
2014 MTV AFRICA MUSIC AWARDS: Award show television in Africa finally embraces cellphones, selfies, and social media insanity.
The pan-African music awards show, revived by Viacom International Media Networks Africa (VIMN Arica) after an absence of three years and broadcast across the African continent on MultiChoice's DStv satellite pay-TV platform, on Saturday night offered a tantalising glimpse of the rapidly changing way that live awards shows are adapting to African consumers who all have cellphones.
Where the producers of live award shows in, and made for Africa, shunned cellphones and the in-show use of it as a nuisance, distracting from the actual production, live TV presentations like the 2014 MTV Africa Music Awards are now actively embracing the rapidly pervasive technology and connectivity in consumers' and TV viewers' hands.
Before the 2014 MTV Africa Music Awards the organisers ominously asked/announced: "Does anyone here have a cellphone? ..."
The audience and crowd, TV critics, journalists and other press converging at Durban's International Convention Centre half-expected the question to be followed by the usual "please turn your cellphone off. Don't put it on silent but please turn it off since it's interfering with the show, which will be a live show".
Instead of an admonishment and a warning, the audience was encouraged to not only keep their cellphones on - but to use them.
They laughed and cheered - an indication of the funny unexpected, and opposite directive that they were expecting to hear.
It marks a massive departure for shows of this nature in Africa and South Africa, as awards shows on television - so called "appointment television" which are watched live - are proliferating across the continent.
Producers, TV executives and platforms as well as channel operators and distributors no longer just want African viewers to merely tune in - they want the viewing figures yes, but also the resulting, parallel buzz generated from social media.
Welcome to television that's also trending.
Formerly at wit's end with recalcitrant studio audiences who didn't switch their cellphones off, producers of shows - especially big awards shows - have not just adopted an attitude of "if you can't fight them, join them", but are now pro-actively courting crowds and audience members with special hashtags and sticky ongoing social engagement integration during shows.
Two weeks after host Nico Panagio at the live Survivor South Africa: Champions finale on M-Net asked viewers to send questions on Twitter, Facebook and WeChat which he got contestants to answer during the live show, Marlon Wayans actively egged on both viewers at home and the in-crowd at the 2014 MTV Africa Music Awards to hashtag the show on Twitter and to send him questions.
It marks a dramatic and ongoing shift for big budget tentpole television in South Africa and Africa as TV channels and producers realise the power, and try to come to grips with, the real-time second screen experience where TV viewers and fans are engaging with each other while they're watching and experiencing a made-for-TV event.
Because this type of programming is television which compels viewers to watch it live or miss out on the news and buzz-making moments, social media integration has now become a massive element of the measure of the overall success of award shows.
Alex Okosi, the senior vice president and managing director of VIMN Africa, actively courted the press and viewers to use social media for the 2014 MAMA's.
"It bring an amazing shift to the offering, says Tim Horwood, the creative director for VIMN Africa and channel director of MTV Base.
"It enables us to engage with our audience on multiple platforms. We've got quite a big digital, social media element to the show. Because we are live, we can engage the continent simultaneously and that is what the MTV Africa Music Awards is about - it's about bringing Africa together for once celebration," says Tim Horwood.
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