Jeremy Maggs
TV personality and journalist
A highly-requested chairman, master of ceremonies or facilitator at conferences, Jeremy co-anchors - with Iman Rappetti - News Night on eNCA. He also hosts "Power Update" daily on PowerFM.
Jeremy has been a journalist for almost 30 years and has worked across all media platforms – newspapers, radio, television and magazines. He started his career as a cadet reporter on The Herald newspaper in Port Elizabeth and later moved to the Sunday Tribune in Durban. He then spent 10 years at Radio 702, eventually rising to Head of News and was instrumental in developing the Eyewitness News brand.
He then ventured into television and was lead anchor on am-today on SABC2 – the respected morning news and current affairs programme. Later he hosted the hit television quiz show Who Wants to be a Millionaire that ran for over 100 episodes. During that time, he joined SABC radio and started the long-running Sunday morning show, “media@safm” which focused on the advertising and communications industries.
He also presented PM Live and then AM Live – arguably the country’s most influential current affairs radio show, which included the After 8 Debate. He left the SABC in April 2008 to join the eNCA where is now co-presenter of the flagship evening current affairs programme News Night.
Jeremy was also the advertising and media writer for the Financial Mail and was responsible for the authoritative yearly industry review called Ad Focus.
He now publishes his own hardcover review of the industry called "The Annual". He continues to watch the industry with a programme on eNCA called Maggs on Media. He is also heard on Power FM 98.7 with his own Sunday morning magazine programme. He is also the editor of the marketing website The Red Zone, its spinoff magazine and Directorship magazine.