On December 12, TV5MONDE will broadcast La Piste de la Francophonie pour la planète, a special live program starting at 7:00 p.m. across 17 cities around the world and five continents. This third edition follows on from the Tour du monde de la Francophonie (World Tour of the French-speaking World),...
CANAL+ modifies its service plan and places Ivorian channels at the top of the channel list
CANAL+ regularly modifies its service plan (channel numbering) to take into account changes related to the creation or disappearance of channels or to comply with local regulations. Since November 14, CANAL+ has changed the numbering of its channels in sub-Saharan Africa to comply with, among other things, the decision taken...
New World TV acquires broadcasting rights for CAF competitions for the period 2023-2025
The Togolese company New World TV, which had already made a big splash during the 2022 World Cup, has done it again by winning the free-to-air and pay-TV broadcasting rights for all African Football Confederation (CAF) competitions for a period of three years. New World TV therefore holds the broadcasting...
Interview with Raky Touré, journalist for BRUT Afrique
Can you tell us about your background?I studied political science in the United States, then moved into communications and media. I have worked in several areas of media and audiovisual production.I am passionate about everything related to media, communications, and Africa. I have worked in various areas of the sector,...
The Basketball Africa League is gaining momentum across the continent
The Basketball Africa League is gaining momentum across the continent. Funded by the NBA, the major basketball competition returns for a fourth season packed with new features. It should be noted that in 2020, the NBA announced the launch of the Basketball Africa League, a few months after the creation...
African countries are considering possible regulation of social media
How can content published across social media networks be regulated? This is a thorny issue that media regulators in Africa have attempted to address. Social media certainly increases access to information, but its use by users also leaves room for many abuses, including misinformation. To combat this scourge and provide...
RTS secures broadcasting rights for African qualifiers for the 2026 FIFA World Cup™
RTS has signed an agreement with Marketing & Media Solutions to obtain the broadcasting rights for the African qualifying matches for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. As we announced a few weeks ago, Marketing & Media Solutions (MMS) and PC Plus Group Holding SA (PC Plus Group) have partnered to...
AFO MEDIA, the new group launched by Alain FOKA
Journalist, producer, and presenter at RFI since 1994, Alain Foka announced his departure from RFI a few weeks ago. The renowned Cameroonian media personality will now focus on developing his newly created AFO Medias group, with the ambition of turning it into a major media group whose intention is to...
NCI signs with New World TV for free-to-air broadcast of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations
After broadcasting the best matches of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, NCI (Nouvelle Chaîne Ivoirienne) is doing it again by signing a sublicense agreement with New World TV allowing it to broadcast the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations matches on free-to-air television in Côte d'Ivoire. This announcement follows New World...
Benin: SRTB, a new entity encompassing ORTB and CMAJB
The Société de Radio et de Télévision du Bénin S.A. (SRTB) is a new entity created by the authorities, resulting from the merger of the Office de radiodiffusion et télévision du Bénin (ORTB), which manages the country's public media, and the Centre multimédia des Adolescents et des Jeunes du Bénin...