Tag: The Media Blog

Isime Esene August 12, 2016

The Media Blog: What Biola Alabi did next – already has a Season II

You know Biola Alabi of course. She is the former managing director of MNet responsible for hits from the Africa Magic channel explosion (including, of course, the Yoruba channel) to…

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Isime Esene August 12, 2016

The Media Blog: Financial TV? Arese Ugwu is all over that

Arese Ugwu is a money blogger (sounds suspiciously like 'money doubler') and building a personal financial platform (Smart Money Africa) targeted at young people – especially young women. And this…

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Ada Igboanugo August 11, 2016

The Media Blog: The Online TV Wars – GTBank vs UBA vs Access Bank (and Diamond Bank is struggling nearby)

Accelerate TV (owned by Access Bank) is, uhm, accelerating. Sure, its bank-as-media-owner strategy is inspired (to put it gently) by Ndani TV (owned by GTBank). But it’s not taking that…

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YWriter August 11, 2016

The Media Blog: Guardian TV gets branded content deal with Zenith Bank – but why?

Guardian TV has taken the lead in terms of branded digital TV content in the space – launching a brand new finance series called ‘Your Life, Your Money’, hosted by…

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Isime Esene August 11, 2016

The Media Blog: Oreka finally finds her way

Oreka Godis is one of the most talented media talents you will find in the country. But you wouldn’t know it if you weren’t a media insider. And that’s because…

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Isime Esene August 9, 2016

The Media Blog: EbonyLife TV has finally figured out it needs to do what it needs to do

Whom we love, we chastise. The bible says something like that. So let it be known that TMB (that’s The Media Blog) is a fan of EbonyLife TV. Stop thinking…

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Isime Esene August 9, 2016

The Media Blog: PartyJollof vs Zikoko: Tracker, Episode 1

So if you pay attention to the underground ‘submarine channel’ of online media, you will know that there is a silent war between entertainment magazines Zikoko and PartyJollof (disclosure: our…

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Isime Esene August 9, 2016

The Media Blog: Beat FM’s ‘The Handover’ comes to a smartphone screen near you

The Beat 99.9 should be worried. Urban 98.6 has fully taken its space (we will talk about The Legend of Tajudeen Adepetun who owns that network alongside 8 TV stations…

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Isime Esene August 9, 2016

The Media Blog: TNC is (possibly) finally ready to wear big boy pants

If you’re a part of what they call the mass market, then TNC (TheNakedConvos.com) isn’t something you will neither care about. Which is the plan. But if you’re part of…

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