NEW MULTICHOICE CHANNEL
Newzroom Afrika to prioritise employees of former ANN7
Manyi told Business Day on Tuesday that about 350 Afro Worldview staff were now without jobs
MultiChoice’s new black-owned TV channel says that it plans to "prioritise" job applicants from the Gupta-linked station it is replacing and that it plans to launch in early 2019. MultiChoice said on Tuesday it had signed a broadcasting deal with Newzroom Afrika, a start-up jointly owned by "successful television production entrepreneurs" Thokozani Nkosi of Eclipse TV and Thabile Ngwato of Rapid Innovation. The company is to produce a 24-hour news channel on DStv, filling the spot left vacant after MultiChoice pulled the plug on Afro Worldview, the channel formerly known as ANN7, which Mzwanele Manyi bought in 2017 from the Gupta family in a transaction financed by them. In June, Manyi said he was "quietly confident" Afro Worldview would win back its spot after the channel took on new shareholders, including Mandela Legacy Media and private investors Unathi Mguye and Sifiso Mthethwa. Manyi told Business Day on Tuesday that about 350 Afro Worldview staff were now without jobs after t...
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