Noisy Panda Announces First Music NFT Release

From Bi-Lingual Artist, McGyver

Noisy Panda World (NPW) is taking the NFT and hip-hop music game to a whole new level. As a disruptive digital platform that promotes and supports artists, NPW will be teaming up with McGyver to launch a series of music NFTs for his new single 89’, produced by the legendary Pete Rock. This partnership and NFT introduction is in response to a challenge facing the Music and Technology Industries today.

“89’” is McGyver’s rap single in Dutch and English produced by Pete Rock, a legendary music artist, DJ, and producer who has been in the experimental Hip-Hop game since 1987. It is being released on McGyver’s birthday, celebrating a milestone not only in his life and career, but also music history. With the help of the HeyLayer NFT Marketplace, Noisy Panda and McGyver are birthing a unique way of acquiring NFTs, enjoying music, and navigating the decentralized space.

 

McGyver is a bilingual lyrical force to be reckoned with, and is internationally known for placing 5th at the World Freestyle Championships EOW Prague in 2017. The first ever winner of the End of The Weak Freestyle championship of the Netherlands. Before that he toured with the Collective Classic, a classical orchestra with 6 MCs, and performed for the King and Queen of the Netherlands during their inaugural tour of China in 2013.

“The message behind the single is all about energy. Keep transcending. Doesn't matter what your dreams are, you can transcend everything! You need to keep it real and go and execute, make it real”. A poignant message by McGyver about his upcoming Music NFT release, who has had to face many closed doors but has never quit.

 

Music moves generations and is doing so again, aided by technology, bringing new methodologies and benefits, so that expressions can be heard. Over the past 10-15 years the streaming and social media revolution has enabled artists to define their own digital identity and access a worldwide audience that was previously not available to them without the backing of major labels. NFTs provide a new and unique way of driving this revolution further forward. Artists of all types now have a new income stream that can be derived by utilising current and future art. Fans now have a new way to both support and enjoy their favourite artists, whilst engaging more closely with them via their NFT offerings, a win for everyone.

Support McGyver by finding him on Spotify, Facebook and Instagram.

“89’” the first bi-lingual Single Music NFT Drop can be found on Noisy Panda’s Profile on the

HeyLayer Platform:

https://www.heylayer.com/NoisyPandaNFT

ABOUT NOISY PANDA

Noisy Panda World is a decentralized media streaming platform that utilises block chain technology. Our mission is to empower artists by providing them with the tools to break free from conglomerates. Noisy Panda World is community driven and brings together creative minds - fans and artists alike. While we prepare for launch, check out our NFT collection where we collaborate with global artists.

Roundups #45: High Society Scandal Loses A Timeslot On eExtra, I'll Never Say Goodbye Launches On ST Novelas E Plus And HONEY Rumoured To Be Made Available To DStv Access Customers

The Indians are coming I repeat the Indians are coming

During the past week, the second season of Dokter Ali debuted on eExtra and while the first season only resort to reruns were e.tv the second season came with an omnibus likely in an attempt to align themselves with eVOD or viewers got bored of the duplicated Zee TV offering.

But that's not only adjustment coming to the channel. Apparently, High Society Scandal will lose their 23:00 timeslot but viewers can still catch it at 5:00, 14:05 and 17:30 on eExtra and those on Openview also got a repeat on eXposed.

 

 

Naagin returns for a fourth season and will occupy the timeslot for Blue Venom Girl and the 23:00 spot once reserved for High Society Scandal in the new month.

ST Novelas E Plus on the series I'll Never Say Goodbye

Amid a beautiful Island in the youth, Waldo and Aryaan were once deeply in love. But they are apart by deep tragedy, when Waldo goes to jail after accidentally killing Aryaan's uncle who attempted to molest her.

 

I'll Never Say Goodbye (Magpahanggang Wakas) 2016 Philippine revenge drama television series based on the 1980 film Kastilyong Buhangin. It stars Jericho Rosales, Arci Muñoz and John Estrada.

Media24 might be growing their offering on DStv Access

According to sources, HONEY is currently seen on DStv Premium, Compact+ and Compact will be made available to Family and Access customers in the new month.

 

Honey owned by Media24 is a bold and unscripted lifestyle TV channel created and connected for Africans. It has a mix from lifestyle to reality, food, and culture across the African continent.

Media24 also operates the Afrikaans lifestyle channel Via which is set to get a duplicate channel in the coming weeks likely to replace eExtra when it goes off air by the end of May alongside the other e.tv channels.

The History Of A Former DStv Channel, Carlton's SelecTV

Carlton Select was UK's leading entertainment channel owned by Carlton Television. It originally launched in June 1995 as SelecTV, by the independent production company of the same name, before being purchased by Carlton in 1997 who relaunched it as Carlton Select.

During 1985-1991, the channel was part of a bid for an ITV franchise after the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) prevented them from purchasing Thames Television and were only fortunate to provide a news service to the channel.

 

Other aspects that occurred in that timeframe was the purchase of Ladbrokes (Central), the sports betting company owning up to 30% which finally gave them its first stake in a terrestrial broadcasting company.

During 1992-1994, Carlton launched a news station London News Network as part of a joint venture with London Weekend Television broadcasting news and other regional content and acquired full ownership of Ladbrokes.

They also faced some heavy backlash from the Independent Television Communication (ITC) for providing a wide range of "unimpressive and very disappointing" programmes for the ITV network which were "neither distinctive nor noticeable high quality".

 

 

Between 1995 and 1996, Carlton launched its first channel Carlton Food Network and SelectTV was introduced broadcasting various content from their Food Network alongside other content like Airline, Birds Of A Feather, The Golden Girls and Yesterday's Dreams.

It also formed part of DStv's initial offering when it was introduced in 1995 and was eventually purchased by Pearson a year later.

SelecTV programming traced back to the 80s and Carlton Select was introduced in 1997 as part of an attempt to change the image of the channel of course there was not much difference from either one as the timelines were kind of close to each other.

Things were only moving up for Carlton as they were able to launch DTT platform British Digital Broadcasting as part of a joint venture with British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) before having full control as ITC forced BSkyB to retract and purchased a Racks Film Distributor which had  740 films in their collection.

 

 

In 1998, The Guardian publishes a series of articles alleging the wholesale fabrication of a 1996 Carlton documentary, The Connection which had purported to film the route by which heroin was smuggled into the United Kingdom from Colombia. An internal inquiry at Carlton found that The Guardian's allegations were in large part correct and the ITC, fines Carlton £2million for multiple breaches of the UK's broadcasting codes.

Around that period, BSkyB launched their DTT service carrying their set of channels alongside Carlton Select, Carlton Food Network (another DStv channel) and new entries Carlton Kids, Carlton Cinema and Carlton World.

A year after the launch, Carlton began phasing out the company name from all their products and it wasn't until the 2000s that Carlton Select, Carlton World, Carlton Kids were eventually discontinued.

Carlton World followed shortly after and Carlton Food Network became a joint venture with Sainsbury to form Taste CFN which lasted a year leaving Carlton with a movie channel, Carlton Cinema.

 

Carlton partnered up with BSkyB (now Granada PLC or Sky UK) to launch ITV Digital from existing brands and that lasted a few months as well. Granada PLC had various brands which were scrapped for ITV1.

Carlton Cinema ceased transmission and in 2003 the Carlton brand was no more as it merged with Granada PLC to form ITV PLC. All the products from Carlton were credited to ITV.

ITV PLC went on to form an international channel ITV Choice (formerly Granada UKTV, Granada TV and ITV Granada) which some may see as a reincarnation to SelecTV and various other entertainment channels from the two former brands.

Just like every other carnation, ITV Choice was eventually discontinued by 2020 in its last region Africa. There hasn't been a reason for the sudden dismal in various other markets but the local provider in Africa being MultiChoice opted to supply their content to various other channels.

 

ITV Choice brought shows like Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Tipping Point, The Jonathon Ross Show, The Chase and Doc Martin. Modern and original programming that past counterparts had the misfortune of excluding.

In the end, ITV hasn't been successful in the linear space with the likes of BBC and regional providers. Of course, ITV provides various channels in the UK with Ginx TV also being British being the only linear channel available internationally.

But if you look at it the content can be viewed on multiple stations globally so that has to count for something.

Rumoured: tvN Africa Is Making A Comeback

tvN is a South Korean entertainment channel operated by CJ ENM. While its rival SBS focuses more on long form series (telenovelas) which can  be viewed in South Africa on eExtra, tvN on the other hand works on short series.

tvN ran as a pop-up channel on DStv in March 2021 offering drama series such as Another Miss Oh, 100 Days My Prince, The Crowned Clown and Cheese In The Trap alongside variety shows such as Player 7 and You Quiz On The Block.

Ever since the channel went off air its media accounts primarily Facebook remain active in the hopes to become a linear service once again as the content was folded under MultiChoice's new streaming service, Showmax.

 

 

tvN started an online petition several months ago and it looks like there's an update to that as the brand asked consumers names of platforms they rely on for all their entertainment.

It could be imply two things 1) the petition worked out and MultiChoice had a change of heart 2) the petition had no effect and the brand will resurface on a rival platform.

 

How tvN Africa permanent feed might look?
Unlike Korea, tvN Africa ran their programs in a weekday format with some exceptions like variety shows and that will likely continue in this permanent feed. Programs formerly seen on the pop-up will likely be added to the lineup.

 

Last year, tvN put up a list of potential kdramas and variety shows which might join the lineup as well. tvN is not another Telemundo or Zee World which opens up the possibility of seeing more content from CJ ENM.

Aside from tvN originals, the channel had been supplying content from OCN perhaps this permanent version will see them source their offering from more brands like Mnet the music channel.

Nicktoons Africa Is Dead

Nicktoons Africa has been present in the market for almost 8 years featuring animation already viewed on Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. I haven't followed the channel in a while following its absence of Nick originals and strong focus on acquisitions.

Thought of doing something on the channel following its alignment with Nick Global and the rollout of Paramount+.

As mentioned, Nicktoons was no different to the main feed overseas with the excessive amount of reruns. What made the channel click to other consumers globally was the focus on older animation.

 

 

Other regions the channel would just air content that is currently seen on Nickelodeon while the feed that existed in Africa would air shows that haven't been seen on the channel in nearly a decade such as Hey Arnold!, Angry Beavers, Rugrats, Jimmy Neutron and Danny Phantom.

Over the years, the lineup for the channel had constantly shifted which was to be expected considering how the current demographic would eventually age out of the channel and also the fact that reruns don't pull a lot of viewers.

Nicktoons began to air less and less Nick originals and more acquisitions such as My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Littlest Pet Shop and half of the first season of Pokémon: Sun And Moon but one of the other things that killed the spark was the 4 hour Nick Jr block on top of the already available preschool content on Nicktoons.

To top it all off, even Nickelodeon had a preschool block even added fuel to the fire with its own set of programming. Basically, Nick Jr consisted of 3 channels one which it operates 24/7 while the others operate for only 6 hours.

 

 

In 2021, Paramount has been merging several feeds for MTV and Nickelodeon and scrapping various localised feeds and it appears even Nicktoons got a taste of the action.

The channel was using the same graphic designs from its international counterparts then reverted to the U.S. only to switch back to the international designs. Most of the programming seen on the channel is current on Nickelodeon such as Middlemost Post, Lego City Adventures and Barbarian And The Troll.

The only positive thing about this was the reduction of Nick Jrs, now it only broadcasts in the morning and the channel seems to have reverted back to its old ways - REPEATS.

 

Paramount+ is scheduled to launch in South Africa by early 2023 and Paramount has been scrapping channels that were either irrelevant and aired reruns. Although, there hasn't been a report yet of Nicktoons closing down. It wouldn't surprise me if the one in Africa suffered that fate.

Compared to other Nicktoons, its localised feed is still intact and if you had to browse the various channels under Paramount in Africa. Nicktoons is the only repeats channel on their stable while others despite sharing content weren't created for such task.