MTV Base Player

Player is a weekly digitally driven music and news show presented by MTV Base Africa VJ Sizwe Dhlomo. The show features international entertainment news and content with a Pan-African focus. In addition, the show regularly brings African viewers exclusive music videos, thus keeping viewers up to date with the latest in international music.

Look and Feel

The name of the show Player is a pun, centering on the host, Sizwe as well as a media player, the buttons of which are activated by Sizwe throughout the show. There are various elements within the show which are aimed at bringing the viewers closer to the host, as well as the use of user generated content to allow the viewer to express themselves on television.

Digital Interaction

My Mobie

My mobie is a segment in which viewers are shown a scene from a famous movie or music video and then encouraged to send video clips of their reenaction of the scene from video cameras or Mobile phones, which then get featured in that section of the show.HH

MTV Base

MTV Base is a 24-hour music and general entertainment channel from Viacom International Media Networks Europe. The channel focuses primarily on music from the world of R'n'B, hiphop, reggae, soul and urban. The MTV Base brand first launched in the United Kingdom and in Ireland on 1 July 1999, later launching in other European territories such as the Netherlands and Germany. MTV Base Africa launched in February 2005 throughout the African continent and MTV Base in French-speaking territories launched on 21 December 2007. MTV Base began broadcasting in widescreen on 28 March 2012.

Availability

MTV Base is available in the United Kingdom, France, Nigeria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Ireland, West Africa, Kenya and South Africa. The channel was previously available in the Netherlands, Germany, Russia and other European countries but was replaced by MTV Dance in some territories from March 2008. There are two different feeds of MTV Base Africa, with one catering for the South African audience and another for rest of Africa, although there have been criticisms that the rest of Africa feed caters to only Nigerian music, which MTV Base has denied, stating that Nigerian music is popular across Africa, hence why it gets a lot of airplay.