Twitter teams up with E! News for new live-stream show While You Were Streaming on the social network with Danielle Robay discussing television series.

by Thinus Ferreira

The Twitter social network and NBCUniversal's E! (DStv 124) channel is partnering up, with E! that will be doing a new, "made-for-Twitter", live-stream series, While You Were Streaming from its E! News division.

While You Were Streaming will have Danielle Robay as presenter, who will be joined by rotating guests. 

While You Were Streaming will discuss various TV series, both on traditional television as well as those seen on video streaming services.

"The Twitter timeline is where highlights hit first. It's the place people come to watch, debate and participate in the biggest moments across sports, news, gaming and entertainment every day and we're so excited to announce an incredible line-up of new content opportunities," said TJ Adeshola, Twitter's head of global content partnerships.

Watch-guide: 2018's coverage of the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards on E!, M-Net, Twitter, Facebook and IMDb.

Giuliana Rancic and Jason Kennedy will co-host E! Entertainment's coverage of the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards from the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles, with M-Net that will broadcast the awards show, as well as special coverage on Twitter, Facebook and IMDb.

Coverage on E! Entertainment will start on Monday night at 22:30 South African time with Countdown to the Red Carpet: The 2018 Emmy Awards with Kristin Cavallari from Very Cavallari, stylist Brad Goreski, the pop culture personality Nina Parker and E! correspondent Kristin Dos Santos.

They will count down 18 of the most anticipated stars and Emmy nominees gracing the red carpet.

Giuliana Rancic and Jason Kennedy will co-host E!'s Live from the red carpet: The 2018 Emmy Awards for 2 hours, starting at 00:00 on Tuesday morning, 18 September, alongside E! correspondents Zuri Hall and Morgan Stewart. This coverage will be repeated on Tuesday at 20:00.

The "E! Glambot" also returns to the Emmys with music video director and creative director, Cole Walliser, to capture unique red carpet moments.

E!'s red carpet coverage is produced by Wilshire Studios with Gary Snegaroff, Eddie Delbridge, Shaun Smith and Gerry Johnston as the executive producers.

On Wednesday 19 September on E! News at 19:05 Giuliana Rancic and Jason Kennedy as well as E!'s team of correspondents will do a special Emmys edition.


Twitter
E! will also introduce its first-ever E! Stream the Red Carpet digital show on Twitter at @enews starting at 00:00 on Tuesday morning, 18 September, featuring Jeannie Mai, Brad Goreski, and Kristen Dos Santos.

This is an opportunity for fans to comment on the red carpet arrivals and fashion in real-time and interact with E!'s panel of Hollywood experts reporting from the red carpet.


M-Net
On Tuesday morning 18 September at 02:00 M-Net (DStv 101) will broadcast the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards in South Africa and throughout Africa, as well as online on DStv Now until 5:00. On Tuesday at 21:00 M-Net will show the Emmys during primetime in South Africa.


Facebook
On the Television Academy's Emmys.com and Facebook page at Facebook.com/TelevisionAcad people will be able to watch Backstage LIVE!, the Television Academy's companion programme.

This will include the Thank You Cam, a first look at award winners fresh off the stage as they thank additional friends, family, colleagues and fans, the Trophy Cam, where viewers can watch the winners pick up their official Emmy statuette before entering the press room, and the Interview Cam where Marc Istook will share fan comments and questions with the winners throughout the evening.


Online
For the third year in a row, the Television Academy has joined forces with IMDb, the movie,  TV and celebrity content site, to produce the official 70th Emmy Awards online post-show, IMDb LIVE After the Emmys.

On Tuesday 18 September at 05:00 after the Emmys award show ends, IMDb will report live from the Winners Walk inside the press centre.

The one-hour live show, co-hosted by The IMDb Show 's Tim Kash and Amanda Salas, will feature interviews with winners and presenters, expert analysis, social media fan Q&As and red carpet arrival replays.

IMDb LIVE After the Emmys can be watched on IMDb, Emmys.com, Twitch, and Twitter.

Bloomberg and Twitter teams up to create a 24-hour streaming news channel.

Twitter and Bloomberg are teaming up to create a 24-hour streaming news channel that will have reports from Bloomberg Television's various news bureaux, as well as vetted user-generated content.

In South Africa Bloomberg Television is available on MultiChoice's DStv, as well On Digital Media (ODM) and StarTimes Media South Africa's StarSat satellite pay-TV platforms.

Bloomberg's Twitter news channel will have some exclusive content on this online business news channel different from its Bloomberg Television channel.

"Today's global news consumer wants and needs more than what's currently available," says Justin Smith, CEO of Bloomberg Media, in a statement.
 
"With this new network, we are setting out to reinvent the digital breaking news experience."

Bloomberg's Twitter channel will launch later this year.

SABC remains livid over satirical Twitter account of its controversial boss Hlaudi Motsoeneng; says if found SABC will deal 'in harshest way possible'.

The SABC remains livid about a satirical Twitter account of its controversial Auckland Park boss Hlaudi Motsoeneng, with the public broadcaster again "warning" the public that it's fake and saying it will deal "in the harshest way possible" when it finds out who is responsible for it.

The parody Twitter account of Hlaudi Motsoeneng with the handle @SABC_COO sprang up in May 2014 and has since been serving up wry commentary and words of appreciation to followers and SABC "citizens", clearly indicating that it's a "parody/satire" account from "Awkward Park, Johannesburg".

The SABC's famously matricless Hlaudi Motsoeneng achieved meteoric rise inside the South African public broadcaster and is embroiled in a protracted court case regarding his appointment as chief operating officer (COO) following a scathing report from the Public Protector in February 2014 implicating him in several instances of maladministration and for lying about having a matric certificate.

In September 2015 Hlaudi Motsoeneng said he wants social media in South Africa like Facebook and Twitter "to be regulated" and what people can say on it.

The SABC has not been able to identify the person running the account or to shut down the satirical Hlaudi Motsoeneng Twitterer sharing hilarious bon mots with followers.

This week the "fake" Hlaudi told followers things like: "Those asking, yes, I do watch DStv in my office, but obviously only for the purposes of learning how SABC can improve its broadcasting," and "Many have asked if we are broadcasting the EFF manifesto launch. The answer is no. Instead we will be screening Sarafina".

Messages with bite shared on the satirical account range from things like "SABC is happy to announce exclusive book & broadcast rights to the story of President Zuma & his life of service, The Long Walk to Nkandla", to "For those asking, no, I don't smoke the devil's lettuce. My eyes are red from sleepless nights running SABC".

"He [Hlaudi Motsoeneng] doesn't have a Twitter account," says SABC spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago.

"All of the things that are said there, are not his. He has said it very clearly that he is not on social media, deliberately so."

"We are taking it very seriously, especially if you look where its him saying we're not going to do the EFF manifesto and in the space of that we'll do Sarafina. People are just being malicious and they're damaging the brand SABC."

"We want to say to them we're taking this very seriously as the SABC. We will then have to follow up on this people and if this people are found we will deal with them in the harshest way possible," said Kaizer Kganyago.

"If we find out who it is, then we'll open a case because it's just pushing malicious information that damages the brand. People must understand that the brand SABC has got value and because of that value we have to get worried."

"Don't believe what you read in those Twitter pages because this is not ... we've got an official page of the SABC. If there's anything we want to we will say it there. We're a public broadcaster, if there are messages we want to send out we will come here and send them out like that," Kaizer Kganyago told SABC News.

"Our image is much more important than people who are trying to fool around. Maybe for them it's a joke but for us it isn't."

The SABC goes 'WTF!' on Twitter in reaction over president Jacob Zuma's R4 billion jet in the public broadcaster's latest embarrassing, public blunder.

The SABC editorially weighed in on the shock news of a new VIP presidential jet that will cost R4 billion for president Jacob Zuma with just the words: ‘What. The. F- !!!’.

In the SABC's latest embarrassing public blunder, the shock tweet from the SABC's official SABC News Online Twitter account with bad language that referenced a City Press story, instantly went viral.

City Press on Sunday revealed that Armscor is planning to buy a R4 billion presidential jet for president Zuma, shocking the SABC which referenced the story, and adding profanity to express the South African public broadcaster’s disbelief.

Later the SABC deleted the specific tweet from the SABC’s timeline although it already went viral.

SABC News then issued an apology but didn't say who was responsible for the editorial response and whether an SABC employee wrote it, or whether its Twitter account was hacked.

In a tweet, SABC News said: "SABC News would like to apologize for an earlier tweet that had profanity. The [sic] was done by someone without authority to be on our account."

BREAKING. Oscar Pistorius trial TV channel on DStv upset over another Twitter account; tell people not to follow 'fake' @oscartrialtv199.

The Oscar Pistorius trial TV channel (DStv 199) running on MultiChoice's DStv pay-TV platform is upset about the creation and existence of what it calls a "fake" Twitter account, @oscartrial_199, with another one @oscartrialtv199 also doing tweets about the murder trial.

The Twitter account directly related to the TV production of the Oscar Pistorius trial TV channel is @oscartrial199 - without the "tv" or underscore symbol.

The "199" in all the names derive from channel 199 - the channel number on DStv on which the channel is being run which has been providing live court room coverage, insights and analysis om the sensational Oscar Pistorius murder trial.

It's not clear why the Oscar Pistorius trial TV channel would consider their @oscartrial199 Twitter name as the only "official" Oscar Pistorius trial Twitter name - it is possible for anyone to create and use any untaken Twitter name on the social media network.

What has however been happening is that @oscartrial_199 has been copying, tweeting and using all of the @oscartrial199 content, while @oscartrialtv199 has been tweeting about the Oscar Pistorius court case as well.

The Oscar Pistorius trial TV channel has now been asking people to not follow the "fake Oscar trial Twitter account" and that it is being "reported".

UPDATE Friday 11 April 2014: 15:45: The Oscar Pistorius trial TV channel run by Combined Artistic Productions tells TV with Thinus in response to this morning's media enquiry that @oscartrial_199 has been reported to Twitter, and that "a notification has meanwhile been added to the fake account indicating it is a parody account and not affiliated to the official channel".

[Basically what is means is that @oscartrial_199 has been shut down now, and that @oscartrialtv199 made clear that it is a parody stream of messages.]