Talk radio station Power FM announced its imminent launch with the unveiling a new outdoor brand campaign that is certain to get South Africans talking. The campaign will resonate with audiences who identify with the unique messaging. Titled “ If you’re South African, you’ll get it,” the campaign was conceptualised by creative agency The Jupiter [...]
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All the Media24 Newspaper Legends Awards
Media24 Newspapers announced the winners of the 2012/2013 Legends Awards at a ceremony in Cape Town on Friday evening. The Legends Awards, now in its fifth year, is an annual event celebrating extraordinary editorial, advertising and service achievements in Media24 Newspapers. Special Award 2012/2013 All Time Legend Award Mathatha Tsedu– General Manager: strategic [...]
Debate on banning Sunday alcohol trade ends
South Africa’s leading premium alcohol beverage company, Brandhouse Beverages welcomes the decision by Gauteng Economic Development MEC Nkosiphendule Kolisile to withdraw the proposal to prohibit the sale of alcohol on Sunday. The decision is in line with the current priority of Government to promote economic growth and protection of jobs in various sectors of [...]
NATIVE launches world’s first cashless fashion boutique
The world’s first cashless fashion boutique, The Exchange, has been opened by NATIVE at Cavendish Square in Cape Town. Stocked with clothing and accessories from more than 25 of South Africa’s top designers, nothing in the store can be purchased with cash or credit cards – only by becoming an organ donor. The concept for The Exchange (outlined at www.facebook.com/organdonorfan) was [...]
Business Day to remain in broadsheet format
BDFM Publisher and Editor in Chief, Peter Bruce, has announced that Business Day will remain in broadsheet format. There has been significant consideration and debate over recent months regarding the possible move to a tabloid format for one of South Africa’s leading financial newspapers. Bruce says, “The benefits of the intended change to tabloid [...]
Loeries deadline is looming
With the looming Loeries deadline of 31 May, it’s time for entrants to get all their entries ready for submission. To make your lives easier, we compiled the key points from last week’s DMMA seminar on how to prepare a Loeries entry http://www.loeries.com/default.aspx?link=how2enter_send_entry that stands out and demonstrates how the work fulfils our three key judging criteria [...]
Newspapers retain stable readership
In the new AMPS 2012AB results from SAARF, the total newspaper figures remain stable. The new SAARF results concentrate on fieldwork that was done from January to December 2012 with a sample size of 25 108. On the whole, daily newspaper readership figures remain stable and weekly newspaper figures are down. However, many of the Media24 [...]
ABF seeks committee members
The nucleus of the ABF’s executive committee will be elected at the forthcoming annual general meeting, and with the return to the fold of Sharlene Vallance, a long-time professional fund raiser who has been dedicated to helping the ABF, the organisation is already swinging into top gear. Sharlene has dedicated over some 20 years [...]
New radio station wins top honours
New Cape Town audio brand, Smile 90.4FM’s Bobby Brown walked away with top honours at the MTN Radio awards, h Brown was named the best bulletin reader in the commercial radio category for his work at Cape Talk. Backed by Anant Singh and Dr Ernest Messina Smile 90.4fm provides entertainment, information and inspiration to listeners in the [...]
TAMS audit report presented to SAARF Board
Due to uneasiness about the state of health of the TAMS panel amongst certain stakeholders, the SAARF Board decided last year that an international audit of the current panel was necessary to review the methodology, identify any possible shortcomings in the panel as well as areas of improvement, and guide the intended multimillion Rand expansion [...]
