BREAKING. Falling Skies on FOX in South Africa renewed for a 4th season of 10 episodes.

Falling Skies, the science fiction drama from Steven Spielberg seen in South Africa on FOX (DStv 125 / TopTV 180) and currently in its third season in the United States has been renewed for a fourth season.

Unlike the previous two seasons South African viewers are not seeing episodes of the current latest third season of Falling Skies close to the American broadcasting date which is

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Enter Survivor South Africa Champions on M-Net which will be filming for the entire month of October 2013 with Mark Fish and Corne Krige.

South Africans can now enter Survivor South Africa Champions, the next season in M-Net's local Survivor reality show version with 27 episodes which will be filmed during the entire month of October 2013 in an as yet undisclosed location with soccer player Mark Fish, and rugby player Corne Krige as tribe captains.

Contestants who want to enter the open casting process to possibly be selected

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BREAKING. MultiChoice adds Tshwane TV to DStv; Cape Town Television (CTV) will be added to DStv from September.

The South African community TV stations Tshwane TV (TTV) (DStv 262) and Cape Town Television (CTV) (DStv 263) are both joining MultiChoice and are being added to the DStv platform as new nationally available television stations.

Tshwane TV will be added to DStv from Tuesday 9 July on channel 262 and CTV will be added to DStv from September on channel 263, giving both these South African

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Fox News Channel moving Megyn Kelly to a new timeslot when she returns from maternity leave; sign new long term deals with presenters.

After years of a very stable schedule the Fox News Channel (TopTV 405) will be moving Megyn Kelly to a new timeslot when she returns from her maternity leave.

Fox News Channel also renewed the contracts of Bret Braier, Shepard Smith, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren in new long term deals.

Fox News Channel says a new schedule will be announce at a later date but it will mean

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Is TopTV getting ready to dump Top Crime and to add Fox Crime? Where is the promised replacement channels? TopTV isn't willing to talk about it.

On Digital Media (ODM) running the struggling South African satellite pay-TV service TopTV is possibly getting ready to dump its own Top Crime (TopTV 301) channel and to add Fox Crime - but TopTV isn't willing to talk about it or to give answers to a growing number of extremely irate TopTV subscribers about months' old promises of new replacement channels for axed ones.

Asked if TopTV is

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Media24 dumps another magazine as AdVantage is closed down after 20 years.

Media group Media24 is dumping yet another magazine with AdVantage, the South African advertising and marketing industry's go-to source ending its existence.

South African TV executives, ad and media buyers and media, marketing and advertising strategists and planners, all used the trade publication for information on the biz.

Media24's unceremonious closure of AdVantage magazine will be

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The end of pirated viewing of South Africa's SABC and e.tv in the rest of Africa as the free-to-air signals are curtailed.

For the rest of Africa it's the end of
free, pirated viewing of the South Africa's SABC channels and e.tv after the
broadcasters' signals emanating from South Africa to neighbouring African
countries were shut down.



While South African viewers complain
bitterly about the sad state of affairs and quality of public television and
while growing numbers of them are pirate viewing overseas TV

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