Cricket West Indies (CWI) sealed its third new multi-year broadcast rights deal with SuperSport seizing the rights to West Indies cricket until the end of 2024 in sub-Saharan Africa. The four-year agreement will enable SuperSport to air exclusive live coverage of all West Indies international home matches and regional tournaments played in the Caribbean on [...]
SVOD platform StarzPlay has announced an array of wildlife documentaries. Thought-provoking yet entertaining, these documentaries capture the essence of the wild-life and our planet. Wildest Middle East features the forests, deserts, mountains, rivers, seas, flora and fauna in Middle Eastern countries such as Turkey, Egypt, Arabia and Jordan. Another documentary, Crikey it’s the Irwins, revolves around the [...]
Millions of Manchester United fans in Africa will gain access to MUTV under an agreement with StarTimes, the continent’s leading digital TV operator. StarTimes will distribute MUTV to subscribers in over 30 countries across sub-Saharan African, representing the biggest agreement of its kind by Manchester United in the region. Viewers in countries including Nigeria, South [...]
Produced in collaboration with the Eastern Cape Development Corporation, the Amathole District Municipality and Picture Tree, ‘Dam‘ is now available on Showmax based on the Kenyan police procedural ‘Crime and Justice‘. Reviewer Sergio Pereira has acclaimed Dam’s outstanding production quality, saying it rivals any international production. He further said, “More importantly, the cast delivers an equally exceptional performance [...]
stc’s media arm, Intigral, will provide its Jawwy TV subscribers access to discovery+ content in a branded area and will also offer the full discovery+ service for 12 months when signing up for an a la carte add-on subscription. Discovery+’s offering will include 4,000 hours of on-demand content featuring original and global shows such as [...]
SES, the global content connectivity solutions company, announced that the Ethiosat platform is now airing all channels of the Association of Ethiopian Broadcasters (AEB) and the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) exclusively, comprising of Ethiopia’s most popular channels such as EBS, ETV News and FANA TV. The variety of lifestyle, news, sport and educational channels – [...]
The streaming platform was previously accessible in only 5 African countries and is now set to launch into 40 additional countries including Kenya, Angola, Benin, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and more. Spotify will be expanding into 85 new markets across Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa. The announcement was made on its online event titled “Stream [...]
Shahid VIP collaborates with Asharq News to provide its content to the streaming platform in the Arab world. Selective programming from Asharq News will be accessible to stream on Shahid VIP. The Asharq News experience is available through a dedicated television channel, as well as multiple digital platforms, providing continuous insights into the people, events, [...]
The international TV channel broadcaster Mimyuni Media Entertainment has concluded a new agreement with Habeshaview in Ethiopia Habeshaview has been working with Mimyuni’s products very successfully so far. A year ago, they launched the children’s music channel Lolly Kids TV for their younger audience. That made them part of the global social project Lolly Kids, [...]
Beeline Telecoms Limited becomes the fourth mobile operator in Zambia. Beeline Telecoms Limited, a wholly Zambian owned company will, following issuance of the license and associated conditions, will be required to begin operations within six months failure to which, unless determined otherwise by the Authority, the license will be revoked. The decision by the Authority [...]