TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV reports and articles to read - 24 February 2021.

Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:     

■ Netflix has an elite team of 23 insider executives, known as the "L-staff" who make the biggest decisions at the video streaming service.

■  Apple's biggest mistake was not buying Netflix.

■ Independent Media's Debashine Thangevelo will now do a weekly column on Sundays, "Remote Access", in the new Insider supplement, looking at what's happening on TV.

■ The Black News Channel is looking to mark a mark in America's competitive TV news channels landscape while looking at news through the lens of black Americans.

■ Al Jazeera (DStv 406 / StarSat 257) is launching a new rightwing news platform, Rightly, that will be led by a former Fox News journalist.

- Al Jazeera staff dismayed at the Rightly launch.

■ A new Netflix hack understands your TV obsessions even more than you do.

■ The showrunner of The Walking Dead on FOX (DStv 125 / StarSat 131) reveals how the show filled the extra 6 episodes.

■ This is why Star is Disney's next big salvo in its Disney+ streaming war with Netflix.

■ Video streamers are looking outside the lines:

As subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services have become all the rage in America and are damaging traditional pay-TV services, for many - especially smaller services - the real money is to be made internationally.

■ So-called "cord-cutting" in America - consumers who abandon and cancel their traditional pay-TV subscription - has almost doubled in 2020.

- The worst of cord-cutting is over?

■ How The Bachelor reality show in America missed an opportunity for representation.

- Why Chris Harrison's benching from The Bachelor should be made permanent.

■ Disney, Discovery Inc., WarnerMedia and all of the others are fixated on the subscriber numbers for their new streaming services but the big question is their content spend and whether they're going to keep it up and invest even more to keep pace with the near-bottomless wallets of Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV+.

■ Ultraviolet television helps us understand how animals see the world.

■ Will Facebook become a revenue stream for TV news?

■ Ireland struggles with the same collection problems as South Africa's SABC TV Licence.

■ TV's tech war: TV-set makers are increasingly pitting the rival technologies of LED and OLED against each other. The result: Better screens for customers.

■ Riverdale seen on M-Net (DStv 101) leaves viewers gasping as Archie and Betty strips naked for steamy shower sex scene.

- Why British TV viewers no longer complain about sex.

■ Study: Too much TV or mobile screen time can trigger suicidal thoughts in teenagers.

■ New Chinese crime drama TV series, Hunting, filming in Nairobi, Kenya.

■ The former South African YO.TV presenter Jeza gets 6 matric distinctions.

■ From Sex and the City, to Succession and all of the new shows and new seasons: Will TV confront Covid-19 or ignore it?

SABC1 adds 5 new young presenters for its YOTV weekday youth strand including reigning Miss Teen World, Katlego Ncala.

SABC1's youth strand YO.TV Live is adding 5 new presenters after a series of auditions to find new younger faces for the brand.

The new 5 presenters will join the existing Karabo Bonco; Gift Mokhamponyane; Mamodibe Rabodibe and Lwando Mbelu on YOTV on weekdays between 15:00 and 15:00 on SABC1 and on Saturday mornings between 07:30 and 08:30.

The 16-year old Katlego Ncala, otherwise known as Kat, is the reigning Miss Teen World.

The 16-year old Thabo Dithebe is a hop-hop dancer who likes sneakers.

Candice Modiselle wants to be an actress, has taken part in a lot of productions ranging from school shows to stage productions.

She is busy with her honours degree in dramatic arts at Wits University and specialising in physical theatre and art management.

Entle Bizana at 15-years old is the youngest addition to the YOTV team, loves shoes, and says she is talkative.

The 19-year old Ofentse Tlou speaks 9 languages and recently moved from Mafikeng to join the TV industry as on-screen talent.

SABC1 updates and rolls out a new on-air look for its long running youth and teen timeslot brand, YOTV.

SABC1 today updated and rolled out a new on-air look for its long running youth and teen timeslot brand YOTV.

After more than a decade and several changes in its look and presenters, SABC1 is once again changing YOTV which is its afternoon youth broadcasting block on weekdays at 15:00 with a new set and graphics.

YOTV includes separate shows such as Battle Stations, Let's Get Quizzical and Blue Couch.