Durban’s innovative streamcasting TV channel, DUrbanTV, has signed a ‘Memorandum of Intent’ to partner with the newly established TVBRICS channel.

The establishment of the TVBRICS channel, a collaboration between TV channels from the BRICS member countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China & South Africa, was signed at the 9th BRICS Conference held in Xiamen, China from 3-5th September 2017. DurbanTV signed their agreement with the TVBRICS channel on 6th September 2017.

The agreement came about as a direct result of a meeting between Doreen Theys of Durban MediaNet, the holding company of DUrbanTV, and the TVBRICS representatives at the 2017 Durban Film Mart.

The TVBRICS representatives were immediately impressed with DUrbanTV’s innovative capacity as a streamcasting TV channel as well as the content that was being produced, and, the conversation soon overcame the Russian language barrier as similarities of content and ideals, co-production and collaboration opportunities to develop the TV industry in Durban and KwaZulu Natal specifically were discussed.

The signing of the TVBRICS Memorandum is a huge opportunity for DurbanTV, initially enabling Durban city and business to link with TVBRICS to promote our city and province directly via the TVBRICS and partner channels. Ultimately it will lead to collaborations and co-productions between the TVBRICS partner channels and DurbanTV enabling SA’s first streamcasting channel to showcase Durban, KwaZulu Natal and South African cultural, historical, business and industry development news, sport, travel and TVBRICS related items on an on-going basis, as well as forging links to organise related events such as festivals, conferences & forums, all of which will bring about a greater understanding and opportunities for development between the Brics countries.

DUrbanTV also intends to use the opportunity to create a solid foundation for much-needed infrastructure in Television production in Durban and KZN in order to create a stable KZN TV industry which can support real job creation and entrepreneurship opportunities in this exciting and very much youth orientated industry.

The current developments and on-going roll-out of fibre optic internet and improved broadband connections across the province and SA will also add to the development of the online TV industry, streamcasting computer technology and software development which DUrbanTV intends to capitalise on through the TVBRICS initiative.

DUrbanTV, with the support of the city structures, private investment and business will ensure that the goal of having an independent, Durban based, region-wide Television industry can be realised and this TVBrics agreement is a huge step towards achieving that goal.

DUrbanTV â€" Information
DUrbanTV, the first streamcasting TV channel in South Africa is bridging the gap between traditional TV viewing and online streamcasting TV, providing community and entertainment programming from Durban and KwaZulu Natal to a local, national and international audience since 2014.

A combination of 25 years of experience in broadcasting TV, the vision to harness the innovation of streamcasting TV and social media marketing enabled Doreen Theys, the founder of DUrbanTV, to develop this innovative channel and grow its audience base alongside its productions.

The channel has steadily grown year on year, currently attracting an average of over 90,000 viewers per month and a social media reach of over 600,000 per month, a figure which is steadily growing as the trend for online TV viewing in SA grows.

DUrbanTV has already had great successes ‘promoting local’ including events & venues in Durban and KwaZulu Natal and has continued to expand on its coverage of the city attractions, events, local characters, unique culture, sport and recreation and the beautiful areas throughout eThekwini & KwaZulu Natal region.

DurbanTV content includes Arts & Culture, Environment and travel, sports and personalities, community development, culture and tourism, business & industry innovation and development.
The channel relies on advertisers and sponsorship to create its programming, like any other TV channel, and has successfully worked with both national and regional advertisers as well as city structures to create original programming. The DurbanTV channel has been able to harness the incredible opportunity of the internet to reach its viewers with a diverse range of items from the plight of an injured penguin taken in by Ushaka Marine World to daily social media & channel reports covering the Team UKZN students taking part in the Bridgestone Solar Car challenge as they crossed the Australian Outback, to profiling our home-grown Olympic Heroes before they left for, and whilst they competed in the Olympics in Rio 2017.

DUrbanTV’s coverage of business events has included the Durban Film Mart, Durban Business Fair and specifically Indaba 2017, where the channel produced daily ‘Indaba highlights’ proudly sponsored by Durban Tourism.

The channel has worked closely with city and regional government, independent business and organisations to produce on-going items of interest and looks forward to building on this solid base to create even more positive programming from the KZN region in future.

DUrbanTV is free to view at the following website and has linked social media pages to promote the programming and channel.

For more information regarding DUrbanTV please contact : Doreen Theys Durban MediaNet : Director DUrbanTV : Executive Producer Tel: ++27 31 266 0339 e-mail: doreen@durbanmedia.net Website: http://www.durbantv.net FB: https://www.facebook.com/tvDUrban Google+: https://www.google.com/+DUrbanTVnet Twitter : https://twitter.com/tvDUrban Instagram : DUrbanTV