The Perfect Candidate (Al Murshaha Al Methaliya), Saudi iconic film, will be streaming exclusively on OSN. In a first for a Saudi release, the inspiring and empowering movie was not available in cinemas, and is broadcasting for the first time on OSN. Commenting the release, Rolla Karam, interim chief content officer at OSN said: “OSN’s [...]
Pan African entertainment TV show, WatsUp TV is collaborating with Guinea Evasion TV and Burkina Faso’s 3TV, to expand its content onto the Canal+ platform thus extending their viewership to over 40 countries and 7 million homes on the satellite platform. The shows which will be produced and broadcasted in French for the Francophone audience [...]
Synamedia, the video software provider has announced that Yes, the pay-TV subsidiary of Israeli telco, Bezeq, is deploying Synamedia’s end-to-end video network portfolio to achieve broadcast-equivalent latency for its cloud-based, internet-only TV services. Yes believes it will be the first operator in the world to deliver broadcast-equivalent latency. Yes chose Synamedia as it is the [...]
Pay television operator StarTimes has secured the broadcast rights for the 2020/21 UEFA Nations League that will begin on 3rd September. StarTimes has seized transmission rights across all media platforms including its self-produced sports channels as well as on StarTimes ON streaming platform in all countries across sub-Saharan Africa, apart from South Africa. The Regional Marketing Director of [...]
Sub-Saharan African pay-television broadcaster, SuperSport has renewed its exclusive rights to the top two tiers of Spanish football, LaLiga. The South Africa-based pay-TV network’s deal includes all languages except Arabic and French. The agreement will see La Liga’s dedicated 24/7 English-language channel, LaLigaTV, made available to subscribers on pay-TV’s DStv, which covers the sub-Saharan region. The agreement [...]
Vivendi-owned French operator Canal+ will roll out Ethiopia’s first premium DTH platform at the start of 2021. The platform is the outcome of an agreement inked between the operator and satellite operator Eutelsat. The deal is a multi-year, multi-transponder contract for Ku capacity on Eutelsat 7C. The satellite entered into service in January 2020 and [...]
MultiChoice collaborates with The Walt Disney Company Africa to offer more sports to subscribers across Africa. Two 24-hour ESPN channels will be accessible to DStv customers from 29 July. The channels will provide every major US sport and American leagues National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL), National Hockey League (NHL) and Major League Baseball [...]
Etisalat has introduced a brand-new OTT service called SwitchTV in the UAE. The app, which can be downloaded from the Apple App Store, Google Play or the new Huawei App Gallery, is accessible to all UAE residents, regardless of their mobile carrier or home internet service. Etisalat subscribers accessing SwitchTV will benefit from data-free streaming [...]
OSN is bringing Disney’s Frozen 2 to stream exclusively on OSN Movies First and OSN streaming app as from tomorrow. Frozen 2 is ranked as the number one animated movie and will be dubbed in Arabic and will feature Opera Singer Nesma Mahgoub voices Elsa, with Shorouk El Sherif, Alaa Khaled, Hisham El Guindy, Kamal [...]
The highly anticipated film ‘Black is King ‘ produced by Beyoncé and scheduled to be released on July 31 will be available across Africa via Canal+ Africa and Multichoice. Based on the music of the Lion King, the film promotes black culture and looks back on great moments in the history of black peoples. MNet [...]
