During a media showcase, MultiChoice Nigeria has announced brand new content offerings for the year. Among the new programming are two new Africa Magic Shows, ‘Enakhe’ and Riona ‘Fighting Fate’, as well as a new reality show, ‘Shoot Your Shot’. The company also spoke about the investments that went into the production of the fifth season [...]
Ayoba and MusicTime announced their new partnership to bring free music listening, with the launch of a new feature in the ayoba app. MusicTime in ayoba is live in South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Rwanda, Uganda, Congo Brazzaville, Guinee, Guinee Bissau, Sudan and Afghanistan. Each country offers ayoba users’ free access to 10 playlists with [...]
Inkblot Productions has announced a new partnership deal with Netflix. The new original drama series ‘Far From Home’ is a six-part series created by Chinaza Onuzo and Dami Elebe which will be produced by Inkblot Productions. The story of Ishaya who is a charismatic teenager and talented artist from a poor family whose receives a [...]
SuperSport has secured the live broadcasting of Ethiopian Premier League for the next five seasons. Among the bidders are Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC), DStv and Canal+. SuperSport agreed to pay $2.7 million per year on a 5-year contract totalling $13.5 million while Canal+ on the other hand, bid $7 million for 5 years. No information [...]
StarzPlay will premiere the new season of award-winning TV series, Fargo exclusively to MENA subscribers. The first two episodes are produced by Noah Hawley and starring Chris Rock will be available today, September 28 and new episode will be added on a weekly basis at the same time as the US. The new season is [...]
Crystal TV, Ghana’s first private television network has signed a new long-term distribution agreement with Al-Jazeera Media Network by broadcasting Al-Jazeera English News Channel. Crystal TV is focusing on marketing new packages by providing its viewers with a platform for news and current affairs. Crystal TV‘s President/CEO, Dr. Chief Paul Crystal-Djirackor, said: “We are excited [...]
Huawei Angola plan to invest $60 million to build a headquarter for training and promotion of digital education for public schools’ student in partnership with mobile operator, Unitel. Eunice de Carvalho, General Director of Unitel and Liuhongzhen Michael, Deputy CEO of Huawei announced a two-year memorandum by supplying equipment and technological solutions by Huawei while [...]
FilmOne Entertainment, a Nigerian film distributor, has signed exclusive distribution deal with Disney Africa to distribute the movies in Nigeria, Ghana and Liberia. The deal will include Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures and Blue Sky Pictures. Christine Service, Senior Vice President and General Manager [...]
The movie channel is a creation Celestial Tiger Entertainment (CTE) an operator of Asia largest entertainment channel. KIX will showcase never-seen before movies from action genres, including kung-fu classics, action comedies, adventure and action thrillers. “We are very excited to be launching KIX on DStv in Africa with MultiChoice.” said Ofanny Choi, President of Celestial [...]
Sky News Arabia rolled out mobile-friendly vertical viewing and streaming via its website, Android and iOS applications part of its digital transformation targeting at enhancing user experience. Research has shown that more than half of all video is now consumed on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Suresh Kumar, Director of Technology at Sky [...]
