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Useful links:2020 June
2020-06-04- New digital mediums
RacksAndRails.co.za website/blog featuring stories across fashion, lifestyle and home (A-List Communications)
2020-06-02
- Notice
Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) circulations/ABC Watch module updated with 2020 Q1 data. Note new reporting format: previously Daily, Weekly, Weekend and Local newspapers that reported paid circulation only now report paid and free circulation.
2020-06-01
- Dead/suspended periodicals
2020 May Summary
- Dead/suspended periodicals
City Buzz last issue 2020/03/31 (Caxton Local Media/Spark Media); Joburg East Express last issue 2020/03/31 (Caxton Local Media/Spark Media); North Eastern Tribune last issue 2020/05/19 (Caxton Local Media/Spark Media); REAL life (Creative Group/Arena Holdings : Newspapers); Housing in Southern Africa (Housing Matters); CPHA Magazine, The (Eagle Publishing Company, The for Contractors Plant Hire Association); Top Diet (Media24: Lifestyle); Your Baby folded into Your Pregnancy & renamed Your Pregnancy & Baby wef 2020/04 issue (Media24: Lifestyle); Express: Isolomzi (Media24: News/Ads24); CeasedPublication: Cosmopolitan media owner closed, future status of titles and staff uncertain (Associated Media Publishing (Pty) Ltd: InLiquidation); CeasedPublication: Good Housekeeping media owner closed, future status of titles and staff uncertain (Associated Media Publishing (Pty) Ltd: InLiquidation); CeasedPublication: House and Leisure media owner closed, future status of titles and staff uncertain (Associated Media Publishing (Pty) Ltd: InLiquidation); CeasedPublication: House and Leisure: Before & After media owner closed, future status of titles and staff uncertain (Associated Media Publishing (Pty) Ltd: InLiquidation)
- Dead/suspended websites
CityBuzz.co.za (Caxton Local Media/Spark Media); JoburgEastExpress.co.za (Caxton Local Media/Spark Media); NorthEasternTribune.co.za (Caxton Local Media/Spark Media); RealLifeMagazine.co.za (Creative Group/Arena Holdings : Newspapers); CeasedPublication: Cosmopolitan.co.za media owner closed, future status of titles and staff uncertain (Associated Media Publishing (Pty) Ltd: InLiquidation); CeasedPublication: GoodHousekeeping.co.za media owner closed, future status of titles and staff uncertain (Associated Media Publishing (Pty) Ltd: InLiquidation); CeasedPublication: HouseAndLeisure.co.za media owner closed, future status of titles and staff uncertain (Associated Media Publishing (Pty) Ltd: InLiquidation); CeasedPublication: WomenOnWheels.co.za media owner closed, future status of titles and staff uncertain (Associated Media Publishing (Pty) Ltd: InLiquidation)
- New radio management
CCFM 107.5 FM new station manager; Ulwazi FM new programme manager
- Publishing changes
BeautySouthAfrica.com TO Beauty South Africa FROM Publishing Partnership, The; BeautySouthAfrica Newsletter TO Beauty South Africa FROM Publishing Partnership, The; Landscape SA and Landscape SA Buyers Guide TO Now Media (Pty) Ltd FROM Eagle Publishing Company, The; Caxton Magazines announces intention to withdraw from magazine publishing. Affected titles Bona, Country Life, SA, Essentials, Farmer's Weekly, Food & Home Entertaining, Garden and Home, South African, People, Rooi Rose, Vrouekeur, Woman & Home, Your Family. Status of respective online assets unresolved. ; CeasedPublication: Daily Sun ceased distribution in W. Cape, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Free State and KwaZulu-Natal to concentrate on northern areas (Media24: News/Ads24)
- Existing mediums new to Media Manager
FashionJazz.co.za fashion and lifestyle blog (Fashion Jazz)
- Company changes
Canine Zone Magazine publisher of Canine Zone FROM Ebiz Solutions
- New editors
Vrystaat Nuus/News; Eikestadnuus; Aliwal Weekblad/Weekly; Communicare
- Medium name changes
Standard FROM Worcester Standard (Media24: News/Ads24)
- Dead/suspended newsletters
CeasedPublication: Cosmopolitan Newsletter media owner closed, future status of titles and staff uncertain (Associated Media Publishing (Pty) Ltd: InLiquidation); CeasedPublication: Good Housekeeping Newsletter media owner closed, future status of titles and staff uncertain (Associated Media Publishing (Pty) Ltd: InLiquidation)
2020 April Summary
- New editors
Supermarket & Retailer; Supermarket.co.za; Freight & Trading Weekly Online; Oppidan Press, The; Blue Chip; Opportunity; Service: Leadership in Local Government (inc Buyers Guide); Varsity Newspaper; StudentVillage.co.za; Fin24.com
- Dead/suspended periodicals
PHASA Magazine (Professional Hunters Assoc. of SA); Sports Trader Team Sport Directory (Rocklands Communications cc t/a SA Sports Trader); Envirokids (Wildlife & Environment Society of SA); Freight & Trading Weekly (FTW) ceased in favour of online, to be relaunched Freight & Trading Weekly Online (Now Media (Pty) Ltd); Women on Wheels (WOW) supplement ceased, website WomenOnWheels.co.za continues publication (Associated Media Publishing (Pty) Ltd); Truck & Bus (Titan Publications); Who's Who in Trucks & Buses (Titan Publications); Burger Oos & Wes, Die: (Fri) ( linked) link rate no longer offered, listing ceased (Media24: News/Ads24); Commercial & Industrial Property News (Malnor (Pty) Ltd); Commercial & Industrial Property News Suppliers Directory (Malnor (Pty) Ltd); Export & Import SA (Malnor (Pty) Ltd); Export & Import SA Suppliers Directory (Malnor (Pty) Ltd); Shopping & Retail Southern Africa (Malnor (Pty) Ltd)
- New radio management
Unitra (UCR), Radio new station manager; Veritas, Radio new station manager; Sloot FM new programme manager; Capricorn FM new station manager; Pheli FM new programme manager; Radio 2000 new station manager; SAFM new station, programme managers; Sedibeng FM new station manager; Vuma FM 103 new programme manager; Whale Coast FM new station/programme manager; Motsweding FM new acting station manager; Rhodes Music Radio (RMR) new programme manager
- Medium name changes
Macadamia Africa, The & SADC Sugar Digest FROM SADC Sugar Digest, now includes macadamia industry (Block Media)
- Publishing changes
Blue Chip publishing TO Global Africa Network (GAN)/Financial Planning Institute of Southern Africa (FPI) FROM Cape Media Corporation; Opportunity publishing TO Global Africa Network (GAN)/South African Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SACCI) FROM Cape Media Corporation; Service: Leadership in Local Government (inc Buyers Guide) publishing TO Global Africa Network (GAN) FROM Cape Media Corporation
- Existing mediums new to Media Manager
JustJody.co.za blog about predominantly local sports (Just Jody); GI Jane Blog containing posts and health and fitness (GI Jane); Citizen, The: Business business section of Citizen, The (Citizen (1978) Pty Ltd/Money Web Holdings); GaloreSA.com blog containing reviews and information on local entertainment (GaloreSA.com); B Sharp Entertainment Blog containing information on local music and events (B Sharp Entertainment); PrettyBelle.co.za fashion and parenting blog (PrettyBelle)
- Dead/suspended websites
TruckAndBus.co.za (Titan Publications); Traveller24.com website closed end 2020/03 (24.com/SpaceStation, The); Commercial & Industrial Property News Online (Malnor (Pty) Ltd); ExportSA.co.za (Malnor (Pty) Ltd); ShoppingAndRetail.co.za (Malnor (Pty) Ltd)