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Africa
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Eutelsat orders satellite for growing Middle East and north Africa demand
Eutelsat has placed an order for a new satellite to offer enhanced broadcasting capacity for…
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RRSat increases African DTH presence with Spacecom deal
Content management and global distribution company RR Sat has launched two new Ku-Band MCPC platforms…
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Africa’s iRokotv passes half million registered users in six months
African digital video service iRokotv, dubbed the “Netflix of Africa”, has reached 500,000 registered users…
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JimJam launches on MyTV
Chello Zone kids channel JimJam has launched on African pay TV platform MyTV. MyTV is…
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Canal Plus to launch mobile payments in Africa
Canal Plus Afrique, the African arm of the French pay TV operator, is launching a…
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Intelsat launches New Dawn MCPC media platform in Africa
Intelsat and GlobeCast have launched the Intelsat New Dawn Ku-band Multi-Channel Per Carrier (MCPC) media…
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Al Jazeera extends African coverage with Eutelsat
Al Jazeera has signed a capacity deal with Eutelsat to extend its coverage over Africa….
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Online channel Afro TV to launch in UK
African online television channel Afro TV is launching in the UK later this year. The…
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Canal Plus picks up Champions League rights for Africa
UEFA has awarded the 2012-15 UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League French language media…
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Trace Africa gets carriage with SFR
Trace Africa, the music channel dedicated to African music, has launched in France on SFR’s…
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MTG extends presence in Africa
Modern Times Group (MTG) has launched its Viasat History and Viasat Nature pay TV channels…
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Euronews expands in East Africa with Zuku debut
African pay TV platform Zuku has added the English version of news channel Euronews to…
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Discovery launches more channels on DStv
Discovery Networks CEEMEA is to launch two new channels on the South Africa-based pay TV…
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Studio Universal launches in 47 African countries
Universal Networks has signed a carriage deal with African pay TV operator MultiChoice that will…
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GlobeCast expands African reach with SES
Broadcast services provider GlobeCast has contracted a transponder on SES’s SES-4 satellite as well as…
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Africa7 launches FTA
Africa7, a new free-to-air channel, is launching in Senegal in September and will also roll…
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Pace supplying DVB-T2 boxes for MultiChoice GOtv
UK set-top provider Pace is supplying boxes to MultiChoice Africa to support the launch of…
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Star Africa expands in Rwanda
African pay TV operator Star Africa Media is launching three new channels in Rwanda. The…
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Zuku to add Star channels
African pay TV platform Zuku has struck a deal with Indian broadcaster Star that will…