ITV and STV have announced that live coverage of Scotland’s World Cup Group C fixture against Morocco on June 19th drew a TV peak audience of 6 million viewers across ITV1, STV, ITVX and STV Player. The match secured a commanding 81 per cent share of TV viewing at its peak. The game peaked with […]
Channel 4 has acquired the exclusive rights to broadcast the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), agreeing a deal with The Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF). This agreement marks the first time the tournament will be available to watch for free in the UK. The AFCON kicks-off on December 21st in Morocco and will see […]
Es’hailSat, the Qatar Satellite Company, has signed a multi-year multi-transponder deal with the public broadcaster of Morocco, Société Nationale de Radiodiffusion et de Télévision (SNRT). The agreement entails Direct-to-Home (DTH) services, satellite transponder for Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) as well as video contribution services at the 25.5° East orbital position, facilitated by the Es’hail-1 satellite. […]
THEMA, a Canal+ company, in partnership with Tivify platform, has announced the launch of a suite of nine premium Moroccan TV channels bundled into a single package created and assembled by THEMA for the first time in Spain, Maghreb TV+.For an additional monthly cost of €3.99, Tivify users and the Moroccan community living in Spain […]
The France vs Morocco World Cup semi-final match pulled in a peak TV audience of 10 million on BBC One on December 14th. The match was also streamed 3.8 million times on BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport Online, making it one of the BBC’s five most-streamed games so far this tournament. France won the game […]
The Israel-based international news channel i24NEWS is launching operations in Morocco. i24NEWS CEO Frank Melloul announced the opening of two bureaus in Rabat and Casablanca, from which the channel will operate its studios. In addition to the Tel Aviv headquarters, i24NEWS also broadcasts from studios in France, the US and recently from the UAE. The […]
Rabat-based Maghreb Arabe Presse (MAP), the Moroccan state-owned news agency founded in 1959, recently completed a transition to IP, with the installation of Lawo broadcast technology in their radio production studios. The project was performed by Lawo’s Morocco partner LTS Network, based in Casablanca. The extensive technical update encompasses three radio studios and two TV […]
beIN Media Group, the global sports and entertainment broadcaster, and its flagship sports channel beIN Sports, revealed that it has achieved record-setting viewership figures of over 450 million cumulative views during the FIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2021 that was held from November 30th to December 18th 2021. In a move to make such a regionally […]
Electric racing series, Extreme E, has announced the latest addition to its broadcast portfolio with Morocco’s state broadcasting service SNRT. This year’s championship will be available live and in full on SNRT along with highlights, previews, reviews and Extreme E’s 20-part magazine programme, the Electric Odyssey – in both Arabic and French. In addition, Extreme […]
Spain is suffering DTT signal interference in the south of the country courtesy of Moroccan DTT networks. High temperatures along with powerful TV repeating stations located in the mountains are causing interferences that are preventing viewers from watching TV channels including Antena 3 TV, La Sexta, Neox and Nova in the province of Cádiz. The […]