MTV – Music Television today announced the premiere of television’s first hip-hop reality sitcom, “Run’s House” beginning October 13 at 10:30 PM (ET/PT), immediately following “Making the Band 3.” The second season of “Making the Band 3” premieres with a special one-hour episode on Thursday, October 6 at 10:00 PM (ET/PT). On Saturday, October 1, fans of “Making the Band 3” can get a sneak peek at the first half hour of the new season on MTV’s Overdrive…

Even in the midst of her impending jail stint and allegations that she used the death of Christopher ‘Notorious B.I.G.’ Wallace to further her career, music artist Li’l Kim had nothing but love for the big guy when she sat for an interview to discuss their life together with VH1’s Fab Five Freddy for the VH1 Hip Hop Honors, paying tribute to the legendary rapper on Monday, September 26 at 9:00 PM.

Three of South Africa’s hottest artists will be performing at the MTV base World Chart Express VJ auditions. Prokid, Zola and Skwatta Kamp will make exclusive appearances at the VJ auditions over the next week to perform their hottest tracks for the thousands of South African VJ hopefuls who will make their bid for TV fame as the host of new SABC1 show, MTV base World Chart Express…

On June 16th we bring you a Backstage Special. Hidden Force, the popular South African Hip Hop group, will be making a guest appearance on the show. The five members of Hidden Force – Gaoza, Lebza, Hoodlum, Bon Bhutiza and Supremo can be regarded as township narrators with the ability to bring the listener into their worlds. Hidden Force’s music highlights the everyday struggles that many South Africans face on a day-to-day basis, and they’re a not-to-be-missed class act…

Here’s another opportunity for u to check out Ancient Men as they were voted most popular interviewees by viewers of the popular music show Pitstop, and therefore have been approached by the show to conduct a second, more indepth, interview with them…

Since its inception in 1998, e.tv has commissioned and aired several high quality local documentaries. Most of these documentaries were produced in either the Western Cape or Gauteng, provinces that boast thriving film and tv production industries. Now, in the interest of developing production capacity in the other provinces and also to ensure diversity in our documentary programming, e.tv will be commissioning one half-hour documentary from producers in each province excluding Gauteng and the Western Cape…

If you havent heard their sound yet and you don’t know who HIPE and Dmus are, then I got one thing to say, “Where have u been all this time?”

The music program ‘Pitstop’ will screen the Pollsmoor gig of award winning Afrikaans Hip Hop group KALLITZ on Wednesday, 20 April 2005 at 18h00 on SABC 2.

A young woman from Whaleyville will be the hostess of a hip-hop music video show to be aired on a Los Angeles television station on Friday, April 1, and Friday, April 8. Lesley Bunting, 23, is the third winner of a new reality television music video countdown competition. She won the opportunity to be on the show through an Internet site, www.winyourowntvshow.com and hopes it could help jumpstart a career for her in television.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for Durban and surrounding area emcees to get their projects on to the small screen. from Musa Cele A.k.a. Obstical from Durban…

MTV base, MTV’s first pan-African music channel and MTV Networks’ 100th television channel worldwide, has revealed its official launch date as Tuesday 22 February 2005. The long-anticipated 24-hour music channel will go live to air at 20:00 Central African Time (CAT) providing young Africans with their own bespoke MTV channel…

If you want the latest in entertainment news as well as information on the coolest stuff happening in SA street culture then make a date with Street Journal on SABC 1 Ya Mampela every Monday at 18:30 as of the 6th of December.

The magnificently talented Kenny Muhammad aka ‘The Human Orchestra’ brings a classic sound to a new awards show! VH1 Hip Hop Honors, which airs on October 12th, is being advertised regularly with several teaser spots, two of which feature the futuristic beatbox stylings of Kenny Muhammad. .The other spots feature Michael Viner’s Incredible Bongo Band’s cover of “Apache” and the Jimmy Castor Bunch singing “It’s Just Begun”.

SABC 2’s Pitstop screened a feature on Kallitz last week Wednesday, 18 August 2004, where viewers could win one of five CD’s of Kallitz’ debut album ‘Die Ding Ruk Mal’. The public response was overwhelming, with Pitstop receiving well over 2,000 SMS’s from viewers requesting the CD. ‘Pitstop’ rates this response “unusually high”, indicating a tremendous demand for Kallitz, and have decided to screen the music video ‘Die Ding Ruk Mal’ again tonight due to popular demand. ‘Pistop’ is on SABC 2 tonight at 18:00.

Crystal Knight is the personification of heat. As Playboy TV’s premier hip hop honey, Knight is the wattage that fires up the network’s bi-weekly staple, “Night Calls 411.” The brown bombshell brings it with her seductive take on contemporary sexuality, with a lethal combination of jaw dropping humor and sizzling sensuality. A sister series to Playboy TV’s “Night Calls Live,” Knight’s urban edge has garnered “Night Calls 411” top ratings for the network as the show enters its fifth season. Just ask fans like Treach, Snoop Dogg or Shaq, Knight keeps her viewers coming back for more!