Remember the accusations that some Gupta TV (ANN7) staff were working with holiday visas? Remember Gupta TV denied the allegations? Well those staff have been kicked out of SA..
The Department of Home Affairs has confirmed it has launched an investigation into the visa irregularities at the Gupta-owned 24-hour news channel, Africa News Network 7 (ANN7), or if you prefer, Gupta-TV.
If you think Francois Louw, the Springbok rugby player looks ANYTHING like the main picture here, you’d be wrong. Not only is his hair different, but every other aspect of his face. What the hell is going on?
The Daily Maverick have come up with some ideas for future programming on Gupta founded ANN7. In this hilarious article they outline their exciting plans for the network ANN7 take note, there is some broadcasting gold here.
Deshnee Subramany and Mmanaledi Mataboge from Mail & Guardian discuss a former ANN7 editor who says he fears for his life. They discuss allegations of political interference at ANN7, threats against staff and secret meetings between Jacob Zuma and Atul Gupta.
Good morning. The sun has risen once more, so obviously there’s yet another balls-up from our favourite news channel, ANN7. Check it out. After the Gupta TV production team slipped up yet again and failed to play the audio for a segment, the on-screen presenter had enough. Instead of hearing music overlay of the news segment we hear a clearly frustrated, “Hayibo, guys!”
Sheena DEEPnarain was a model and even a cheerleader, but now she works for Gupta-TV. She has penned an open letter, following the disastrous start ANN7 received last week. Here it is.
A little skim over the comments under the various Gupta TV fail videos, reveals a minority rooting for the presenters – saying it’s not their fault. Blaming rather the production team or the teleprompter operator. To those commentators, I have this to say to you.
We trust you caught the last Gupta-TV sports report clip we posted (here), which was incredibly amazing. But I’m afraid it does not compare to this one. This is very special.
The Gupta-funded ANN7 news network launched last night, and we can confirm that the tremendous failure of a launch event that was largely defined by dead air has spilled over into their regular bulletins. In this wonderful clip, a ANN7 sports anchor refers to Australian cricket captain, Michael Clarke, as “Michelle”.
This runaway-train-on-fire is reaching such exquisite levels of ineptitude that we are now wholly convinced that the entire enterprise is a subversive satirical comedy channel to rival the best in the world. Take this ANN7 job ad, for example.