Africa Check, a pioneering fact-checking organization on the African continent, officially launches its first podcast, "Le faux dans l'info" (Fake News), today. Operating on a pan-African scale, the Africa Check website has been promoting accuracy and honesty in public debate and the media in Africa since 2012. The organization has...
Television, radio, and internet usage audience in Cameroon in the second half of 2020
TELEVISION: more daily viewers but slightly less regular Between September 27 and December 7, 2020, 90.3% of residents in the cities of Douala, Yaoundé, Bamenda, and Bafoussam watched television every day. During the same period last year, the figure was 84.8%. Their viewing time averaged 4 hours and 2 minutes,...
"ON MY WAY" by car to success
Since last Saturday, Orange TV has been broadcasting "Sur ma route" (On My Way), a new program co-produced by Prodzitiv TV and Orange TV based on an original idea by Dédy Bilamba and Eric M'Boua. This 26-minute entertainment program takes viewers on a journey through the streets of Abidjan with...
BNEWS1, Cameroon's new news channel
Bnews1 is a new African news channel launched on January 15 in Cameroon. Created and directed by journalist Ernest OBAMA, former CEO and star presenter of Vision 4, Bnews1, whose B refers to the Bantu people, aims to be unifying and emphasizes its professionalism. The channel's ranks include many former...
We Are Social and Hootsuite reveal social media trends in Africa
We Are Social and Hootsuite have published their annual report on internet and social media usage around the world in 2020. Unsurprisingly, in the context of a global health crisis where governments have had to implement a number of measures, digital technology and internet connections have become an even more...
Ivorian digital press: Sandrine Roland appointed chair of the board of directors of the PNCI
Following a vote on January 27, Sandrine Roland, associate director of AOS Africa, was elected chair of the board of directors of the Côte d'Ivoire Digital Press Platform (PNCI). "In harmony with the executive board, we will lead projects and implement a strategy to achieve the objectives of this platform,...
A new visual identity for Nollywood TV and Nollywood Epic channels
THEMA, a specialist in multicultural content distribution and a subsidiary of CANAL+ International, has unveiled the new visual identity of the Nollywood TV and Nollywood Epic channels on social media. It should be noted that since 2013, the CANAL+ Group has been publishing and distributing the Nollywood TV channel (the...
FESPACO will not take place as planned from February 27, 2021.
The 2021 edition of the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (Fespaco), Africa's leading film festival, which was scheduled to take place from February 27 to March 6, was postponed indefinitely on Friday due to the coronavirus, according to Burkinabe authorities. The Council of Ministers "adopted the decision to...
FIM FM now broadcasts on frequency 95.3
On January 25, 2021, the Fréquence Médias Group officially launched FIM FM's activities in Guinea. FIM FM now broadcasts on 95.3 FM. The Guinean media group had previously announced the creation of FIM FM and FIM 24, a television channel whose official launch will be announced shortly. FIM FM and...
IPTV in Cameroon: -16.9% in the second half of the year
2020 was a particularly difficult year for TV channels CRTV and CANAL2. While the first half of the year was already down 9.7% due to the health crisis, the second half did not allow the two channels studied to recover, ending down 16.9% compared to the second half of 2020....