Surita Smit as new ANN7 weather girl instantly pops on-screen as a Tally Atwater, Kulula flight attendant who've ran away to TV.

Derek van Dam over at eNCA (DStv 403) and that channel's weather centre finally has true competition in the form of Surita Smit, the ANN7 weather girl weather presenter who's bubbly but not blond and who comes across as a kindergarden teacher or a Kulula flight attendant who've secretly ran away to go do television.

If you've seen Tally Atwater in Up, Close & Personal you will instantly see

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ANN7 too incompetent and unprofessional to provide channel logo's for the news channel's shows - but here's the title cards.

ANN7 (DStv 405) on MultiChoice's DStv satellite pay-TV platform has proved too incompetent and unprofessional to provide any channel logo's of TV shows or programming blocks - but here's some of them as revealed on-air following Wednesday evening's broadcast launch.

ANN7 started broadcasting this evening without making any detailed programming information available.

ANN7 run by Infinity

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ANN7: Africa News Network 7's channel bumper looks like something dug up out of the Al Jazeera archives and slightly modified.

It swirls, it twirls, it ends with ANN7 - and reminds me of something dug up out of the Al Jazeera archives and slightly modified for the channel's main bumper.

Is the new on-screen main bumper of ANN7 (DStv 405), South Africa's third 24-hour TV news channel, complete with concave blades oscillating around a red micro globe (or is it a Pokemon egg?) really the best Infinity Media could come

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Empty chairs and tables at the launch event of ANN7 Wednesday evening; sign outside reads: 'Infinity Media dinner'.

ANN7's camera showed viewers empty chairs and tables when South Africa's third 24-hour TV news channel had its channel launch function at a ballroom inside the Sandton Convention Centre on Wednesday evening.

Maybe all the Guptas went to the bathroom together.

Of course ANN7 couldn't bother to even just inform and tell longtime South African TV critics, writers, editors and journalists

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BREAKING. Government planning to break up MultiChoice and SuperSport's lock on premium TV content - especially sport.

You're reading it here first. 

The South African government is set on crafting a new policy to bring an end to premium television content in South Africa - especially sport broadcasts - all being locked up by one broadcaster.

So says the minister of communications, Yunus Carrim, who revealed that the ministry of communications is looking at changing broadcasting regulations in South

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FIRST LOOK. ANN7 news studio finally revealed on-air as Infinity Media launches South Africa's third 24-hour TV news channel on DStv.

ANN7 (DStv 405) finally revealed the South African 24-hour TV news channel's news studio in Midrand on-air when the channel went live at 18:00 on MultiChoice's DStv platform on Wednesday evening.

ANN7, run by Infinity Media, did no walk-through premises tour with TV critics or press prior to launch.

ANN7 didn't respond to multiple media enquiries made prior to launch of the news channel

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ANN7: Is South Africa's 3rd 24-hour TV news channel also going to be third-rate? TV critics are rolling their eyes at ANN7's lacking publicity.

Is ANN7 (DStv 405), South Africa's third 24-hour TV news channel launching today also going to be third-rate?

That's what South Africa's TV critics and editors are wondering after the shoddy and basically non-existent publicity and marketing response to TV critics, journalists and editors who specifically cover television in this country.

On the day of its launch on MultiChoice's DStv

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