Peter Stemmet has left ANN7

Peter Stemmet is the next high-profile departure from ANN7. He left the channel at the end of November (please excuse the late post).


He joined ANN7 at inception, as a presenter of GameOn! in its first form and also the sports anchor on ANN7 Prime. In addition, he occasionally served as fill in general news anchor and most recently presented ANN7's 'Race for the White House,' which was the channel's weekly news recap on the US Elections.

He is also a big time sports blogger.

Prior to joining ANN7, Stemmet was a sports anchor at eNCA and is also a former South African Sports Journalist of the Year. He was one of a few journos that made the jump from eNCA to help start up ANN7.

He leaves ANN7 to be a sports anchor for Al Jazeera English, based in Doha.

Robin Adams leaves Al Jazeera

Thanks everybody for watching.

Forgive the poor audio, but here's @RobinAdamsSport signing off for the last time on @AlJazeera. Farewell to TV's most enthusiastic man 😢 pic.twitter.com/LYJWVxqYVe

— Kamahl Santamaria (@KamahlAJE) November 24, 2016

Those were the words Cape Town born sports anchor, Robin Adams, used to sign off from Al Jazeera  English (DStv 406) for the last time after a six and a half year tenure at the Doha-based news network.

Prior to joining Al Jazeera, Adams was a sports anchor at what is known today as eNCA, anchoring and reporting mainly from Cape Town.

No word yet on what the talented anchor has planned next, but he is returning back home. But before that, he got to have another taste of home as Nandos Qatar sponsored his farewell party at Al Jazeera.

Since signing off for the last time, he has been endlessly retweeting farewells and congratulations on a career well done.

Al Jazeera's American News Channel To Shut Down, Decides To Expand Digital Operations

Al Jazeera Media Network today announced that the organisation's american news channel, Al Jazeera America (Stylised as AJAM) will cease operations from the end of October this year.

The moves comes nearly 2 years after the channel launched in August 2013 and faced an uphill battle in two fronts, both battles of which are now lost: firstly, getting the American public to tune to your tv channel and, secondly, getting pay tv providers to carry the channel.

The channel launched with much fanfare and poached talent from other news channels. These included Ali Velshi who previously anchored CNNi's World Business Today, which is now anchored by Maggy Lake.

Al Jazeera America replaced Al Gore's Current TV (which was carried by what was then called TopTV here in SA) which too struggled in the ratings, though things never got better.

Being backed by financially strong investors, the network launched with over twenty bureaus across the United States and backed by Al Jazeera's muscle for international news. However, when ratings failed to improve, the network shut most of its bureaux and cut back a lot of its live content.

To replace this cut content, the channel simulcast Al Jazeera English, which is seen around the world including here in SA. This led to Al Jazeera English changing its on screen look and feel to that of the American channel so that the transition between the networks can be seamless.

Now, the channel goes 'online only' as the organisation invests more in its online platforms, which benefit online news consumers around the world.