Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, has announced that it has been selected by CAF (The Confederation of African Football) for two seasons of satellite distribution for their main competitions. This includes the rescheduled TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations 2021 men’s football championship, being held in Cameroon, which kicked off last month. Pierre Ramon, […]
South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, is being urged by the government’s Economic Advisory Council to designate the provision of fibre broadband as a utility in order to ensure access by the nation’s poor and more rural parts of the country. The president is expected to make a ‘state of the nation’ speech on February 10th. […]
The live signals from the ongoing matches at the Africa Cup of Nations are being compressed and transmitted from each venue using SAPEC contribution solutions. 5 cities, 6 stadiums, and 52 matches to know which of the 24 national teams will be the champion of the most important soccer tournament in the African continent. The […]
Azercosmos is to use its powerful C-band beams that cover most of Africa to provide satellite services. The company is working with Malaysia’s Measat to use the Azerspace-1 craft which operates from 46 degrees East for the service. The pair say that under the agreement with Measat, Azercosmos will provide the continued seamless distribution of […]
Pan-African entertainment company MultiChoice has further expanded its hyperlocal offering with the launch of two new TV channels – Maningue Magic and Kwenda Magic – for audiences in Mozambique and Angola respectively.The group’s hyperlocal strategy is a multi-pronged, hybrid approach combining local content acquisition, local production, and the development of local content through international production […]
International pay-TV operator and UK-based broadcaster, African Movie Channel (AMC), is expanding its reach and bringing Nollywood films to South America. AMC in HD, together with its second premium channel, AMC Series, are now available on E-Networks, making both channels the first of their kind to be distributed in Guyana via E-Networks – a provider of […]
French satellite operator Eutelsat will continue to broadcast Cameroon’s public TV channel CRTV – one of the country’s most influential media outlets – and its other channels, until 2023, according to news that emerged from Africa Intelligence. Eutelsat is also working with NuRAN Wireless to connect up and backhaul from an eventual 242 planned cellular […]
SPI/FilmBox and AXIAN Group have announced a new distribution deal that makes four channels from SPI’s portfolio available in Madagascar, Comoros and Togo through Telma TV and Togocom TV. Viewers will be able to access FilmBox Africa, FilmBox Arthouse, DocuBox and FightBox in the Premium package.“We are pleased to provide additional windows of curated content […]
African pay-TV operation MultiChoice Group has reported its interim numbers seeing a 5 per cent improvement in subscribers YoY, but its growth in its home South African market was lower at 2 per cent. The broadcaster said that its subscriber count (subscrobers active within 90 days) was 21.1 million (split 12.2 million in the rest […]
Gilat Satellite Networks, a global player in satellite networking technology, solutions and services, has announced that Africa’s largest satellite cellular backhaul network is extending its coverage to a dozen countries in Africa. Africa Mobile Networks (AMN) has deployed Gilat hubs and placed additional orders of Gilat cellular backhaul terminals to serve multiple Tier-1 Telcos in […]