14 August 2018, Business Day, Bekezela Phakathi Media Monitoring Africa director William Bird said: “We are cautiously optimistic about the new deal. Given the prevalence of MultiChoice and the extra income for the SABC, it is good news that the news channel will continue. We also take heart a...
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February 2, 2018, Bizcommunity.com Owing to the “controversies” associated with ANN7, MultiChoice said it would not renew its contract with the channel when it expired in August 2018. The company was preparing a tender for a replacement blackowned news channel, MultiChoice CEO Calvo Mawe...
February 1, 2018, The Citizen “ANN7 will shortly close down and so too will The New Age. This group is doomed, and rightfully so.” Media Monitoring Africa director William Bird added that MultiChoice needed to show what their mistakes were. “We need to be asking what the mistakes were? Please ...
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January 31, 2018, EWN Radio 702 | Director of Media Monitoring Africa William Bird comments on a decision by MultiChoice to not renew ANN7’s contract, which will see the news channel removed from DStv. Listen to the full programme. ...
January 31, 2018, Business Day Media Monitoring Africa director William Bird said there were concerns that the briefing amounted to “smoke and mirrors” and that “if there’s nothing to hide” MultiChoice should make public the report and its agreements with ANN7. Its response was worryingly ...
January 31, 2018, EWN It emerged that MultiChoice made the payment, allegedly in exchange for political influence over government policy on digital migration in its favour. Meanwhile, Media Monitoring Africa’s William Bird says ANN7 failed multiple times to adhere to standard journalistic prin...