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Showing posts with label Viacom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Viacom. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

BREAKING. After 3 years of talks and 13 years apart, Viacom and CBS have reached a deal to merge again as ViacomCBS.

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After 3 years of talks and negotiations following 13 years as split companies, another mega-merger is looming after the media giants Viac...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

MTV's trashy reality reboot, The Hills: New Beginnings, renewed for a second season.

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Viacom's MTV (DStv 130) has renewed its trashy reality reboot, The Hills: New Beginnings for a second season the channel announced o...
Monday, July 22, 2019

Viacom renews SpongeBob SquarePants on Nickelodeon for a 13th season with 13 episodes.

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Viacom has renewed its animation series, SpongeBob SquarePants on Nickelodeon (DStv 305) for a 13th season with 13 episodes. In a pres...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Viacom's BET getting ready to launch BET+ as a new streaming service in late-2019.

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Viacom's BET channel is getting ready to launch its own subscription video-on-demand service (SVOD), BET+ that is set to launch aroun...
Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Nickelodeon renews PAW Patrol, Bubble Guppies, Abby Hatcher and Butterbean's Café for further seasons.

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Viacom's Nickelodeon (DStv 305) has renewed four of its preschool animation series PAW Patrol , Bubble Guppies , Abby Hatcher and B...
Sunday, March 24, 2019

eNCA spreads completely 'fake news' as it wrongly reports that 'Trevor Noah might be out of his job'; TV news channel erroneously claims that The Daily Show on Comedy Central could be cancelled.

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The South African TV news channel eNCA (DStv 403) on Saturday spread "fake news", erroneously and wrongly reporting as a breaki...
Thursday, March 7, 2019

Comedy Central's Comedians Solve World Problems goes global including a localised South African version.

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Viacom's Comedy Central (DStv 122) is expanding and localising its digital Comedians Solve World Problems series globally, that will...
Sunday, February 17, 2019

Viacom's 'New Nickelodeon' charting a new course to serve all kids with a wide-range of new content, including Lego City, SpongeBob spin-offs, and a scripted boarding school music series.

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Viacom's "New Nickelodeon" (DStv 305) says the children's channel is charting a new course to serve all kids - who ar...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

Viacom's Nickelodeon working on a deal with CBS Studios for an animation, youth-centred, Star Trek series.

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Viacom's Nickelodeon (DStv 305) is working on a deal with CBS Studios for an animation, youth-centred Star Trek series. CBS Televis...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Nicki Minaj dumps Viacom's BET Experience festival and the 2019 BET Awards over BET's online Twitter bullying, pitting her against rival Cardi B.

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Artist Nicki Minaj has dumped Viacom's BET (DStv 129) channel, saying she's pulling out of its upcoming BET Experience and will ...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

Viacom's Comedy Central rolling out the channel's first rebranding in 8 years, featuring its own bespoke font type and colour.

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Viacom's Comedy Central (DStv 122) is rolling out the channel's first rebranding in 8 years that will soon be used worldwide. A...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Viacom in SVOD deal with MTN to carry Nickelodeon, MTV, MTV Base and Comedy Central content on MTN Shortz streaming platform in Nigeria.

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Viacom has entered into a subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) deal with cellular operator MTN to carry content from its Nickelodeon, MTV, ...
Monday, July 2, 2018

Viacom's Nickelodeon orders a Latin-American spin-off animation series of The Loud House, Los Casagrandes.

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Viacom's Nickelodeon (DStv 305) has ordered a Latin American animation spin-off series from its The Loud House series, entitled Los ...
Saturday, June 9, 2018

Viacom's new flagship channel, Paramount Network, to launch in the United Kingdom as well, again raising questions as to when Paramount Network will be making its debut for South African and African pay-TV subscribers.

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After making its debut in January in America, Viacom announced on Friday that its new premium entertainment flagship channel, Paramount N...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

MTV abruptly halts production on Catfish, suspends presenter Nev Schulman after allegations of sexual misconduct.

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Viacom's MTV (DStv 130) has abruptly halted production on its Catfish series and suspended presenter Nev Schulman following allegat...
Thursday, March 15, 2018

Comedy Central International commissions 6 digital short form originals, including a 2nd season of the South African YouTube personality Josh Pieters' show, Josh Investigates.

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Viacom's Comedy Central International is expanding its digital programme offering with 6 new short-form originals for YouTube and soc...
Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Nickelodeon promises a 20% increase in the overall episodes of new and returning kids shows for 2018/2019.

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Viacom's kids channel Nickelodeon (DStv 305) says it will be increasing the episodes of all new and returning shows on the channel by ...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Fantasy youth drama series, The Shannara Chronicles, on Netflix cancelled by Viacom; producers Sonar Entertainment looking for a new TV channel to take it over.

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Sometimes even an elfstone ain't enough to save the world (or your show): The Shannara Chronicles  available on Netflix in South Afri...
Monday, January 15, 2018

Will - or when will - South Africa's pay-TV viewers get Viacom's new the Paramount Network channel, and should it replace something like MTV Europe?

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A question of paramount importance: Will - or when will - South African pay-TV viewers get to see Viacom's new flagship TV channel, t...
Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Viacom and BET settled out of court with former BET programming boss Zola Mashariki who Viacom fired while she was on sick leave for breast cancer treatment.

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Viacom and its black entertainment TV channel BET suddenly settled out of court with its former BET programming boss, Zola Mashariki aft...