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Radio has always been South Africa's biggest broadcast medium; From the 1960s, South Africa was a world leader in FM radio technology. In 1962, five FM radio stations broadcast, each to a particular language group. The content of the broadcasts ranged widely, over music, sports, religion, current affairs and drama.
Notable examples of transnational news networks include Al Jazeera, BBC Africa, CNN Africa and France 24 Africa, which provide global news coverage with a focus on African affairs. Additionally, there are pan-African news organizations like the African Union of Broadcasting , All Africa Global Media , Africanews and local outlets that reach ...
Television production companies of South Africa (5 P) Pages in category "Mass media companies of South Africa" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
The Common Language Project, later renamed The Seattle Globalist, is an example of this type of multimedia journalism production. Multimedia reporters who are mobile (usually driving around a community with cameras, audio and video recorders, and laptop computers) are often referred to as mojos , or mobile journalists.
The first digital television implementation in South Africa was a satellite-based system launched by pay-TV operator MultiChoice in 1995. On 22 February 2007 the South African government announced that the country's public TV operators would be broadcasting in digital by 1 November 2008, followed by a three-year dual-illumination period which ...
The SABC on its behalf said that it was improbable for South Africa to get a service in the near future, due to the cost of installing equipment, importing sets and producing programmes. [4] The first proposal to introduce television in South Africa was made by The Rank Organisation in 1953, but this was rejected by the National Party ...
South Africa has a long history of alternative media. During the 1980s there was a host of community and grassroots newspapers that supplied content that ran counter to the prevailing attitudes of the times. In addition, a thriving small press and underground press carried voices that would not have been heard in the mainstream, corporate media.