Press release Radio France Internationale (RFI) is offering new programs to its listeners and internet users. As the official broadcaster of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, RFI is preparing to bring the summer competitions to life on its airwaves, and a new weekly magazine dedicated to the Olympics as seen...
The ADWEKNOW Guide to Production in DIGITAL VERSION
The Audiovisual and Film Production Guide published by ADWEKNOW at the end of 2023 is an invaluable source of information, inspiration, and knowledge. It provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of the production sector in French-speaking Africa in all its dimensions (training, production, financing). The Audiovisual and Film...
NCI takes the lead in ratings in Ivory Coast thanks to CAN 2024
Médiamétrie has just published the results of its first quarter 2024 survey, conducted with its field partner Omedia from January 14 to 29, 2024, February 11 to 26, 2024, and March 10 to 25, 2024. As usual, Médiamétrie's press release focuses on cumulative audience figures, the main indicator of a...
CANAL+ launches a new fiction channel in Pulaar
On April 29, the CANAL+ group launched its new fiction channel "Pulaagu" to highlight the customs and traditions of the Peulh culture. "We have launched several channels in Africa, and today we are launching Pulaagu, which will be of interest to a number of countries, including Senegal, the Republic of...
The Voice Afrique Francophone returns to the screen
Season 6 of The Voice Afrique Francophone began airing on April 20. And this year, the show will be entirely dedicated to Côte d'Ivoire. As a reminder, The Voice Afrique Francophone is a program designed and produced by the pan-African television channel VoxAfrica, which aims to provide a powerful platform...
Senegal: Link Telecom launches new pan-African TV channel
"Eco Media" is the name of the new television channel launched by the Link Telecom group. According to several media outlets, an agreement has been signed between the group led by Excaf CEO Sidy Omar Massar Diagne and the Senegalese National Audiovisual Regulation Council. The result of several years of...
New channel numbering: national channels move to the top in Mali, Togo, and Benin
As announced by David Mignot, CEO of CANAL+AFRIQUE, in an interview he gave us in early January, logical numbering is beginning to be implemented in all countries covered by CANAL+. The High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (HACA), which regulates audiovisual communication in Côte d'Ivoire, initiated the move on January 31...
The most watched television channels in BURKINA FASO and MALI
CANAL+ Advertising, the leading advertising agency in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa, recently published in its sales pitch the audience shares of channels based on the latest data from KANTAR's Africascope 2023 study. In addition to the results for SENEGAL, CAMEROON, and IVORY COAST published by Adweknow last week, here are the...
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...
IPTV in Cameroon: -11.4% in 2023 vs. 2022
Advertising investments in television measured by the Omedia institute in Cameroon declined by 11.4% in 2023 compared to 2022. This decline is due to a sharp drop in investments in November and December, while from April to October, IPTV investments grew steadily and significantly. This decline is due to a...