After the success of the first season, Ôbatanga, the series created by Alex Ogou, returns to screens with a highly anticipated second season on CANAL+ PREMIERE. Winner of the award for best foreign fiction at the prestigious Luchon TV Festival in 2023, the series found its audience as soon as...
Vivendi reorganizes its activities: CANAL+ reconfigured into three divisions
In a press release published on September 20, Vivendi, which announced in December 2023 its intention to reorganize its activities, details the new configuration of the CANAL+ Group. GVA, better known in Africa under the Canalbox brand, Dailymotion, L’Olympia and the Théâtre de L’Œuvre in France, and the CanalOlympia movie...
NCI, official broadcaster of the UEFA Champions League
NCI, the New Ivorian Channel, announced in a press release that it has acquired the free-to-air television broadcasting rights for the UEFA Champions League from New World TV for three (3) years in Côte d'Ivoire. For free-to-air television, the rights include the broadcast in high definition (HD) of one UEFA...
CANAL+ Pop suspended for 45 days in the DRC
The Congolese High Council for Audiovisual and Communication (CSAC) has just suspended Canal + Pop for 45 days throughout the Democratic Republic of Congo as a precautionary measure. In French-speaking Africa, censorship does not only affect news channels; it also affects entertainment channels. CANAL+POP is currently the victim of this:...
Life TV, official broadcaster of emotions
To mark the start of the new season, Life TV has just released a new trailer celebrating Emotion. Breaking with traditional trailers that reuse images from the channel's main programs, this new trailer is more like an advertising spot, which the VOODOO group has mastered. The new Life TV trailer...
TV5 Monde suspended for three months in Mali
The list of French channels suspended or banned in French-speaking African countries is growing. These sanctions are coming thick and fast, particularly in the Sahel countries. Today, TV5 Monde has been suspended for three months by the Malian authorities. The Malian High Authority for Communication (HAC) has criticized TV5 for...
THEMA renews its partnership with OKAST
THEMA, a subsidiary of Canal+ International, publisher of several African channels and specialist in the distribution of African content, has just renewed its partnership with OKAST for the broadcasting of its OTT platform launched in 2022. MY AFRICAN BOUQUET offers six channels, including those produced by the Théma group such...
Africascope Sept 2023/June 2024 – Key findings in TV and radio
The results of the September 2023–June 2024 wave of the AFRICASCOPE study are now available to subscribers. Traditional indicators of cumulative audience and viewing time by country show fairly high stability in both radio and television, although there have been significant declines in viewing time in some countries. RADIO: Radio...
NCI MOST ADMIRED MEDIA BRAND ACCORDING TO BRAND AFRICA
The New Ivorian Channel has just been recognized as the most admired Ivorian media brand in Côte d'Ivoire. This award, presented by Brand Africa, is based on a specific study conducted in Côte d'Ivoire by Geopoll in partnership with KANTAR, which was recently presented by Kwame SEMOU, founder of Opinion...
France 24 improves accessibility for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers
(Press release) Starting Monday, September 2, France 24 in French will offer live subtitles for its 7 a.m. (Monday through Friday) and 10 a.m. (Saturday and Sunday) news programs, bringing the number of subtitled programs to four per day and making international news more accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers....