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Mid East & Africa
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Solar energy group teams up with ZukuTV to target off-grid Kenyan homes
Solar energy specialist Azuri Technologies has teamed up with Wananchi Group-owned pay TV operator Zuku…
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Yahlive launches Balkan bouquet for MENA
UAE-based satellite broadcasting company Yahlive has struck a deal with Adriatic Tours S.L., owners of…
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The rise of SVOD: Africa’s homegrown Netflixes
Africa has seen the launch of a significant number of SVOD services over the last…
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Jordan’s Roya TV taps VSN for VOD and live-streaming
Jordanian public channel Roya TV has launched a video-on-demand and streaming service using technology from…
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Fox orders first drama original for Europe and Africa channels
Fox has ordered The Nine, a ‘Le Carré meets Bourne’ spy thriller, and the first ever…
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Starz adds Spotify to TV Everywhere app
Starz has done a deal with Spotify that will allow users of its updated premium…
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Digitürk secures top-tier football rights
BeIN Media Group-owned Turkish pay TV platform Digitürk has secured the rights to Turkish Süper…
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StarTimes acquires Ghanaian football rights
Chinese-owned pan-African pay TV outfit StarTimes has acquired the rights to top-tier Ghanaian football for…
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Hooq launches in Singapore
Video streaming service Hooq has launched in Singapore. Hooq has struck a deal with one…
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Afrostream secures French first-run rights to Black-ish
SVOD service Afrostream has secured exclusive first-run rights in France for ABC Studios’ show Black-ish….
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Alden could walk free in Kenya murder case
Richard Alden, the former CEO of East African pay TV provider Wananchi Group and Spanish cable operator…
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Canal+ inks international Disney deal
Canal+ has inked a deal with Disney and will get first and second window rights…
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Icflix adds picture-in-picture for iPad users
Middle East SVOD provider Icflix has added support for picture-in-picture functionality on iPads to its…
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African growth helps offset domestic decline at Canal+
Strong revenue growth in Africa helped to partially offset a continued precipitous decline in pay…
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Shifting sands: pay TV in the Middle East
While MBC continues to dominate free TV in the Middle East, moves by beIN Media…
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Africa launch for CBeebies
The BBC’s preschool channel CBeebies is launching in East Africa on the Zuku pay TV…
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Iflix appoints Disney International tech chief as CTO
Asian OTT service, Iflix, has appointed a top Disney International executive, Emmanuel Frenehard, as its…
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OSN launches dedicated Bond channel
Middle East pay TV operator OSN is launching a pop-up James Bond channel that will…
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Yahlive adds 16 new channels for Maghreb region
Middle East satellite platform Yahlive has added 16 new exclusive channels to its bouquet for…
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Starz Play plans African, Asian OTT expansion
Over-the-top service Starz Play is planning to move outside of the Middle East and North…
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Afrostream launching SVOD service across Francophone Africa
Afrostream, the subscription video-on-demand service that set itself the goal of being the ‘Netflix of…
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Over-capacity and changing market hits Intelsat
Pricing pressure fed by capacity over-supply and an ongoing decline in point-to-point and US government…
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Eutelsat agrees capacity deal with Yahsat after Amos-6 explosion
Eutelsat has leased satellite capacity from Yahsat for its Broadband for Africa venture, after Spacecom’s…
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Fox strikes OSN output deal
Fox has renewed its output deal with OSN. The deal gives the Middle Eastern pay…
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AMC Networks to launch telenovela channel in Africa
AMC Networks International is to launch telenovela channel Eva+ in Africa, a sister channel to…
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Arab user-generated content streamer ALTV launches mobile app
Emerging markets streaming service ALTV has launched a mobile app for Android and iOS devices….
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Ericsson strikes raft of content deals for Nuvu SVOD platform
Ericsson has acquired over 2,500 hours of content through a raft of deals for the…
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SES extends installer training programme to Senegal
Satellite operator SES has teamed up with a local partner in Senegal, Ecole Supérieure Multinationale…
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BeIN Media passes Instagram milestone
BeIN Media has passed the social media milestone of having three million Instagram followers. The…
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Eutelsat partners up for new satellite over Europe, North Africa
Eutelsat has named the partners that will help it to build its new Eutelsat 5…