Electric Entertainment, the Los Angeles based production, distribution and post-production company, has announced that fans of Leverage in the UK, Africa and Hong Kong can now enjoy the reimagining of the series, Leverage: Redemption. IMDb TV, Amazon’s free streaming service, has secured full exclusivity across SVoD and AVoD for the series in the UK, NBCUniversal […]
Azam TV, owned by the Tanzania-based Bakhresa Group, is to expand to Zimbabwe. The service is already present in Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Kenya and Rwanda. Its bouquets cover sport, entertainment, news, music and religious channels. The new service will broadcast DTH and has been licensed by the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ). Transmissions are expected […]
The BBC World Service has published its performance review covering the period of 2016 – 2020. The review, set out in the 2016 Agreement with the Secretary of State for Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), examines how the BBC World Service has performed in three key areas: growing global reach, achieving quality […]
MwareTV, a cloud-based multi-tenant platform, has revealed the availability to telco operators and internet service providers (ISPs) in Africa of a new, end-to-end TV solution. Designed for cost-effective and rapid four-week deployment, the new solution includes approximately 100 channels of affordable African content. The TV solution is also fully customisable to represent each operators own […]
The total number of 5G subscribers in Africa and the Middle East (AME) will reach 10.4 million by 2021, with the majority of 5G networks being in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, Israel, and South Africa, forecasts GlobalData. According to the data and analytics company, 7.58 million 5G subscribers will be added in 2021, […]
The recent launch of a free offer in Kenya in this exemplifies the recent change in Netflix’s strategy to address the African market’s peculiarities. Over the last few years, OTT and SVoD platforms have been growing steadily on the African continent but not as fast as expected, notes a report from Dataxis analyst Louise Jianoux. […]
WildEarth is launching a new daily experience on its channel. This real-time penguin experience will premiere on October 2nd at 8.30 am Central African/Central European Time and 7.30 am British Time followed by a repeat at 3.30 pm US Eastern Time for our American viewers. Stony Point Nature Reserve is home to one of the […]
WildEarth has launched a new daily freediving experience from The Great African Sea Forest. The kelp forest around Cape Town at the southern tip of Africa is one of the most bio-diverse and bio-abundant areas in the world and has recently been named one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Many of the sea […]
A Nigerian Tax Appeal Tribunal (TAT) has ruled that MultiChoice Nigeria, a subsidiary of the South African pay-TV broadcaster, must pay an immediate 50 per cent of the 1.8 trillion Naira (€3.7bn) claimed tax backlog. 1,822,923,909,313 Naira is the specific amount claimed, which is greater than MultiChoice’s overall Group market capitalisation. The news hurt MultiChoice’s […]
StarTimes, the China-backed pay-TV system, has completed the second phase of its Uganda satellite TV project and says it has now reaches an extra 400 villages in the country. StarTimes will broadcast educational programming as well as conventional channels. Song Wei, project director at StarTimes, said connecting villages will start this month and end before […]