Metro Digital Limited, which has been offering pay TV services in NIGERIA for several years, is now launching satellite pay TV. The satellite television company SLTV, operated by Metro Digital TV, was launched on March 8, 2024. Nigerian authorities were present at the launch of the company, whose project they...
The 2024 Olympic Games on RTI
In light of the extraordinary enthusiasm generated by recent sporting events successfully broadcast on Ivorian channels in recent years (the 2022 World Cup on NCI and the 2023 African Cup of Nations on NCI, CANAL+, and RTI), RTI has just announced that it has acquired the exclusive broadcasting rights (television,...
Benin: Analog television to be phased out by August 2024
After officially launching Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) on February 17, 2023, Benin announced that it would permanently switch off its analog terrestrial television signal by August 15, 2024. As a reminder, DTT was launched nationwide, with 16 channels including five public channels, eight private channels, and three foreign channels. One...
Orange Côte d'Ivoire unveils "Les perles de Babi" (Babi's Pearls)
In recent years, Ivorian cinema has experienced a real rise in the audiovisual landscape, boosted in particular by historical and major players. Attentive to its market as a committed multi-service operator, Orange Côte d'Ivoire has been supporting the development of the Ivorian film industry for several years. After co-producing original...
2nd edition of the AFRO VFX training program
With around 3,500 films produced each year, West Africa is the most prolific region on the continent. However, professional training remains a strategic issue for the development and structuring of the audiovisual industry. To address this challenge, Éric M’Boua and Dedy Bilamba, co-founders of EM&MB, launched a comprehensive special effects...
The new series “EWUSU” on CANAL+ Première
CANAL+ Première will broadcast the new series "EWUSU" starting March 11, created and directed by Françoise Ellong-Gomez, known for her feature film W.A.K.A shot in Cameroon and for all the initiatives she leads to contribute to the development and structuring of the local film ecosystem. This new series, "EWUSU," is...
Call for films for FESPACO 2025
As part of the 29th edition of FESPACO 2025, which will take place from February 22 to March 1, 2025, the organization is launching its call for films aimed at film and audiovisual professionals and specifies that registrations for the official selection of films are open from February 29 to...
14 documentary projects presented at the "Impala 2024" co-production meetings
The "Impala 2024" co-production meetings took place from Thursday, February 29 to Saturday, March 2, 2024, at the Capitol Hotel in Abidjan Cocody. Organized by Africadoc Côte d’Ivoire, the Association des Réalisateurs Documentaristes du Cameroun (ARDC), Les Ateliers Varan, and Docmonde, under the patronage of Françoise Remarck, Ivorian Minister of...
Brazzaville Film Week will finally take place in July.
FILM WEEK, which was scheduled to take place from April 27 to May 4, 2024, as we announced a few weeks ago, has been postponed to July: the fourth edition of the festival will take place from July 13 to 20, 2024, in Brazzaville, Congo.
The CANAL+ Group raises its bid for MULTICHOICE
The Canal+ group, the largest shareholder in South Africa's MultiChoice, has raised its bid to acquire the operator's entire capital. On February 1, the CANAL+ group submitted a "non-binding indicative" offer to the MultiChoice Board of Directors at a price of 105 rand. This offer represented a 40% premium over...