After hosting the third season of the talent show The Voice Afrique in 2021, Côte d'Ivoire is now hosting the first season of The Voice Kids. The pan-African television channel Voxafrica has officially launched the French-speaking version of The Voice Afrique talent show dedicated to children. The channel's teams, led...
"Africa in Figures," the new magazine from TV5MONDE Afrique
TV5MONDE, the French-language channel, is broadcasting a new 15-episode economic magazine program called "L'Afrique en Chiffres" (Africa in Figures) exclusively on the web. The web magazine "L'Afrique en Chiffres" is a video module that addresses complex economic and social issues by presenting and analyzing key data from institutions as diverse...
Understanding the new digital terrestrial television frequency war in AFRICA
The issue of how to use the frequencies freed up by the implementation of DTT in Africa will soon take center stage in Africa, and it is beginning with an unexpected first episode. During the preparatory discussions for the 2023 World Radiocommunication Conference organized by the International Telecommunication Union and...
Series of announcements during the CAF President's press conference
Patrice Motsepe, President of CAF, made several announcements during his latest press conference: In addition to postponing the Africa Cup of Nations to January 2024 and creating the Super Champions League, it was decided that the Champions League final will now be played over two legs. The 2022 African Super...
CANAL+ acquires ZACU entertainment
The CANAL+ group has announced the acquisition of Zacu Entertainment, Rwanda's leading producer and distributor of audiovisual content, further strengthening its development on the continent. With this acquisition, CANAL+ now has "more than 500 hours of new films and series produced each year and a catalog of 700 hours, all...
Africa Cup of Nations, an unexpected postponement for Ivory Coast
The Africa Cup of Nations (CAN), which was scheduled to take place in Ivory Coast in the summer of 2023, has been postponed to January/February 2024, Patrice Motsepe, president of the Confederation of African Football, announced on Sunday. A logical and expected decision. The president of the Confederation of African...
The Africa Women's Cup of Nations on France Médias Monde channels
The France Médias Monde group's channels are dedicating special programming to the major women's sporting events that will be making headlines around the world this summer. As for the Women's Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco, RFI, France 24, and Monte Carlo Doualiya will bring the event to life for...
CANAL+ NOW HOLDS 18.44% OF MULTICHOICE SHARES
CANAL+ has further increased its stake in Multichoice, as indicated by the financial results for the year ending March 31, 2022, published in early June by the South African group. With 18.44% of Multichoice's capital, CANAL+, which had already increased its stake in September 2021, has consolidated its position as...
Towards the launch of new free channels on Ivorian digital terrestrial television?
The CEO of the Ivorian Broadcasting Corporation (IDT), Adama Benoît Yéo, spoke on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, at the "Tout savoir sur" (Everything you need to know about) forum organized by the Government Information and Communication Center (CICG) on digital terrestrial television (DTT). He addressed several topics, including the progress...