You launched the CFA festival in Paris and several other cities in France. How did the idea of creating an African comedy festival in Paris come about, and what were your ambitions? Since founding Gondwana-City Productions in Abidjan, my goal has remained the same: to professionalize the African comedy sector...
PôleAfrique.Info becomes 7info.ci
The political news site PôleAfrique.info, part of the Ivorian media landscape, is merging with 7info, one of the new digital terrestrial television channels in Côte d'Ivoire, to become 7info.ci as of Tuesday, May 21. This announcement heralds the arrival of the new television channel, 7info, which will launch in the...
Discop Abidjan, May 29–31, 2019
The next Discop Abidjan will take place from May 29 to 31 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Abidjan. DISCOP Abidjan 2019 is the must-attend event for audiovisual professionals in French-speaking Africa, whether they are broadcasters, mobile operators, distributors, producers, or providers of technical services or software packages. As every...
Ivory Coast: official launch of the MTV Shuga series project
It's official: MTV Shuga Babi will be the first version of the MTV Shuga series adapted for French-speaking African audiences. Ivory Coast will host this first adaptation of the popular TV series, which chronicles the lives of young people living in Africa. The first season of MTV Shuga Babi will...
TV5Monde Afrique: The new web series "Un mot adopté" with Yvidero
TV5MONDE, the French-language channel, has been broadcasting a new comedy series exclusively online since May 13: "Un mot adopté" (An Adopted Word). "Un mot adopté" is a short and punchy web series consisting of 16 three-minute episodes, designed and produced by Totem Expérience. It plays on the sometimes unusual use...
CAN 2019: RTS obtains broadcasting rights for the competition
As announced a few weeks ago, the UAR has obtained exclusive broadcasting rights for the upcoming 2019-2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) matches in sub-Saharan Africa. Following this announcement, the marketing of TV rights to various channels was set to begin. Following a call for tenders launched by the African...
TNT in Ivory Coast: equipment exempt from customs duties and VAT
Last week, the Ivorian government announced the exemption of customs duties and Value Added Tax (VAT) on equipment needed to receive digital terrestrial television (DTT) signals in Abidjan. Set for June 17, 2020, by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the process of migrating to DTT and permanently switching off the...
Senegalese channel iTV begins broadcasting
After launching the emedia.sn news platform and Senegalese radio station I Radio in October 2018, the Emedia Invest group officially entered the Senegalese media landscape on May 6 with the launch of iTV. Following a test phase that began last February, iTV officially began broadcasting its programs, which are available...
CFI: two new series in development in Kinshasa and Ouagadougou
Following the success of the television series Invisibles and Sahko et Mangane on Canal+, which CFI supported through training workshops, the adventure continues with two new projects. Read also: Interview with Alex Ogou, director of the series Invisibles In Kinshasa, in partnership with production companies Clarimage and On est ensemble...
THEMA launches its SVOD platform "+ d'Afrique"
On April 25, French company THEMA, which specializes in distributing multicultural content, announced the launch of + d'Afrique, a new video-on-demand service associated with the Bouquet Africain Platinum package offered by operator Free. The new SVOD platform +D'AFRIQUE offers its subscribers African content with a total of more than 450...