In 2000, the number of people who said they’d watched Etv in the past month was 9.7m. In 2008 it had grown to 20m. On any given week, roughly 2m of these viewers watch WWE Smackdown. (AMPS2008B and TAMS)

This week’s theme: TV in SA

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