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Weekly Poll: It's Mzansi - Fo Sho!

Written by TVSA Team from the blog TVSA Polls on 10 Dec 2007
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The second weekly TVSA Poll, conducted last week (3-9 December), asked the question "Which channel has the most appealing branding?"

It was a three-way race between SABC1, SABC3 and M-Net, with SABC1's Mzansi Fo Sho branding winning the poll with 91 votes (29%).

SABC3's jazzy pastels polled 87 votes (28%), while M-Net's familiar blue branding managed 79 votes (25%).

e.tv managed 43 votes for a mere 14% of the total, whilst SABC2 fell hopelessly short with only 13 votes, representing 4% of TVSA readers' opinion.

The poll was substantially more evenly-spread than the first poll, which decided emphatically on e.tv as the best local news bulletin provider.

Significantly, the two winning channels - SABC1 and SABC3 - were the latest two to update their look and feel with new catchphrases, logos and other branding.

Both channels also recently hired new continuity presenters and clearly the effects of the new branding have been felt and appreciated by the viewers of those channels.

SABC2 clearly needs to put more thought into what their image is - they were last in both weekly TVSA polls conducted so far, suggesting viewers don't feel much of a connection with the channel.

Trying to appeal to both old and young viewers is a losing cause, unless you're Disney.

The third weekly TVSA Poll is now live on the site (in the right hand column of every page). This week's question is: "Should school kids be allowed to participate in reality shows?"

The fourth season of M-Net's Idols South Africa was won last night (Sunday 9 December) by 17-year-old Jody Williams, who is in Grade 11.

She could go on and have a successful career in singing, in which case an argument could be made for saying "Yes" to the poll question.

However, she could also have her studies compromised and fail to succeed beyond her reality TV fame, in which case it may have been better for her to have waited until she'd completed school before trying out for Idols.

The answer is in your hands. You can only vote once per poll - any further attempts are disregarded.



15 Comments

Babyface
10 Dec 2007 00:22

belz
10 Dec 2007 00:27

SABC 1??????

Renegade
10 Dec 2007 01:52

Eish Belz, i'm also dumbfounded, bt as they say, the ppl have spoken

tizoz
10 Dec 2007 04:33

You are joking! it might as well be that hideous orange channel! iz it because Mnet doesnt have enough viewership here or wot? even S3 is wack!

mabhebheza
10 Dec 2007 04:44

haaaaaaaa sabc 1 he-ee ngiyala recount pls!

monchooza
10 Dec 2007 05:02

My vote is my voice...

Bra Bizza
10 Dec 2007 05:18

Yeah people...we live in a democratic country where democratic processes are the order of the day...i was not shocked but shooocccκkkeeed....fo sho? @Tizoz...have to agree with you on the M-net case...

Segololo
10 Dec 2007 07:56

Aoa! Rigged votes! No way!

Segololo
10 Dec 2007 10:39

Are you guys sure? Can we re-vote like the ANC? I genuinely feel the endurance of these results are a national crisis that impacts all grassroots at the misunderstanding of the word "appealing"... Comrades, we need to recast our votes?

Brown Shuga
10 Dec 2007 10:49

Hayi guys, leave SABC 1 alone...the question was "which channel has the most appealing branding?" I didn't understand that to mean "Which channel has the best shows".....that's why I voted for SABC 1.

Segololo
10 Dec 2007 10:56

hau! shuga "Branding"? and "shows"? 

You see, I rest my case... People did not understand the question.

Brown Shuga
10 Dec 2007 11:02

Heheheheh what are you saying about me? heheheheh

Brown Shuga
10 Dec 2007 11:05

<<<Significantly, the two winning channels - SABC1 and SABC3 - were the latest two to update their look and feel with new catchphrases, logos and other branding.

Both channels also recently hired new continuity presenters and clearly the effects of the new branding have been felt and appreciated by the viewers of those channels.
>>

You see Sego, the question had nothing to do with the CONTENT!!

Segololo
10 Dec 2007 11:09

we were not voting for content... we were voting for branding... 

Some people clearly got confused about branding...

tizoz
11 Dec 2007 02:29

There is no confusion here we are talking about that dusty branding ye S1 and that Dont miss us ye S3, to be honest I think S3's branding is much beta than S1 but ke it is Democracy and we need some of the voters who voted for S1 to turnaround a sing a different tune.

Lets not get emotional here this is not Umshini wami vote


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