With 2OceansVibe Radio starting to get some traction (or more correctly time and money being thrown at it), the obvious question is how do you monetise the thing and will South African businesses have the risk appetite to invest in ad campaigns on a platform like this.
Would love to hear back from anybody who currently [...]
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Well it looks like Seth is making a full go of his 2OceansVibe internet radio offering. This week it was announced that Richard Hardiman from KFM is jumping ship and backing the new new start-up as “Programme Director” and running the “drive time” show.
There are also “rumours” on Twitter that Sasha Martinengo from 5FM is [...]
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Want to know what music is currently all the rage?
I see that Jack Parow is hitting both the Kalahari and Take 2 lists and the new Eminem release “Recovery” is popular on WantItAll and Amazon.com.
Here’s our listings of the best selling music products on the various online retail platforms:
Want It All- S.A’s Largest Online Shop [...]
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There is an article on MarketingWeb with comments saying that Darren “whackhead” Simpson is going to take over the Rude Awakening show after Jeremy Mansfield does his last show on the 12th of July?
No offense to Darren but I hope that Primedia / Highveld is taking note of some of the comments underneath that article [...]
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This blog has been quite critical of the 94.7 Highveld Stereo Rude Awakening (RAW) offering for a while now but it was still a bit of a surprise to hear that Jeremy Mansfield was going to be resigning next month.
I only caught the tail-end of the announcement so didn’t hear all the details but I [...]
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After 22 years on both sides of the radio business, Bob Mabena is making an entrepreneurial move into radio consultancy.
The highly respected radio broadcaster and manager leaves his post as Managing Director of Makana Radio Communications (MRC) to establish Endow Media & Marketing which he will use to build a consultancy business that draws on [...]
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It was interesting times in the MTN Radio Awards with 702 dominating.
Reading the tweets it looks like 702 really did kick ass. As one of the tweeters commented “the power of talk radiO!”
Here are a couple of the award winners:
Radio Station of the year: Radio 702
Best Breakfast Show: Gareth Cliff
Young Archiver of the Year: Marcelle [...]
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5FM’s internship opportunities are two weeks long and accommodate 6 interns at a time. This is an intensive programme, where the interns will experience every aspect of 5FM. The two-week internship dates for 2010:
21 June 2010 – 2 July 2010
22 November 2010 – 5 December 2010
THE SCREENING PROCESS:
1. Email intern@5fm.co.za with your name, age and [...]
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For those who are old at heart, this debut CD from The Baseballs is a bit of fun and you could almost argue makes you come across as sophisticated and contemporary at the same time!
I was actually surprised to find out that the band is actually operating out of Germany – you have to listen [...]
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This might be interesting opportunity which is being offered by 94.7 Highveld Stereo.
We at 94.7 Highveld Stereo are looking for fresh new talent for our airwaves. If you think you have what it takes post your demo on this group page or on Youtube titled ‘my947audition’ and we will let you know if you have [...]
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