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Showing posts with label Viu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Viu. Show all posts
Friday, January 17, 2025

Viu chooses Kagiso Media's Mediamark as its new sales partner

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by Thinus Ferreira The Viu video streaming service has chosen Kagiso Media's Mediamark as its new sales partner in South Africa. The Med...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

R2919.95 - the cost of watching it all in South Africa ... and counting.

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by Thinus Ferreira It now theoretically costs a South African viewer, as a pay-TV subscriber, R2 919.95 per month, excluding data charges, j...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021

e.tv and VIU to court over streaming rights contract for Scandal! and Imbewu after online piracy fight.

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by Thinus Ferreira e.tv and VIU are squaring off in court today with the free-to-air commercial broadcaster and the foreign video streaming ...
Wednesday, April 7, 2021

TV CRITIC's NOTEBOOK. The not-so-pretty side of Ugly Betty and how bad and non-existent PR is once again damaging local productions - this time 'uBethina Wethu' on SABC1 and VIU.

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by Thinus Ferreira After all of the effort, casting during Covid, money spent, and making a local adaptation of the Colombian telenovela Bet...
Thursday, March 11, 2021

Farieda Metsileng cast as South Africa's Bettina in SABC1's local adaptation of Ugly Betty, Coconut Kelz to play the sassy friend.

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by Thinus Ferreira SABC1 has announced that the former MTV VJ Farieda Metsileng will portray the title role of Bettina Sikhakane in the loca...
Tuesday, January 12, 2021

'Are you the "before"?' Anyone can become the world's first black Betty in the open casting call for South Africa's uBettina Wethu series adaptation of Ugly Betty.

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by Thinus Ferreira uBettina Wethu , South Africa's localised Ugly Betty adaptation, is looking for a black Betty and it could literally...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

South Africa's SABC plans to launch its own video streaming service in 2021, streamer will mimic Britain's BBC iPlayer.

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by Thinus Ferreira South Africa's public broadcaster plans to launch its own SABC video-on-demand streaming service in 2021 with the SAB...
Friday, November 29, 2019

A black Friday as Cell C shuts down its loss-making Cell C black video streaming service after just 2 years.

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by Thinus Ferreira It's a black Friday on Black Friday in South Africa for the struggling Cell C which is shutting down its loss-...
Saturday, October 12, 2019

Vodacom says 'free' Bold that's back in SA is only beautiful on its restricted Video Play service with a Vodacom number.

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Vodacom that announced that The Bold and the Beautiful is back and free to watch for viewers in South Africa on its Video Play streamin...
Thursday, February 28, 2019

Cell C's Cell C black video streaming service gobbles up another R524 million for another year in TV channels and content licensing costs.

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Cell C's subscription video streaming service, Cell C black, has gobbled up a whopping R523.9 million as Cell C spent big in licensin...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Yet another video streaming service, Viu, from PCCW Media launches and scoops up digital rights to SABC shows like Uzalo and Skeem Saam getting yanked from YouTube.

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Yet another video streaming service, Viu, from PCCW Media, is launching in South Africa, scooping up the digital playback rights to the S...