CANAL+ has renewed its long-standing partnership with the UEFA Champions League for three more seasons. This means that UEFA Champions League and UEFA Super Cup matches will continue to be broadcast in French on CANAL+ for subscribers in sub-Saharan Africa, exclusively until 2024. To mark the occasion, CANAL+SPORT channels will...
Ivory Coast: official launch of the second season of Creative Lab
The issue of the distribution of funding sources between public and private channels was at the center of discussions at the round table organized on June 24 by the HACA on the economic viability of DTT players, attended by all television channels and operators, representatives of the ministries of economy...
The CANAL+ GROUP well represented in the official selection at FESPACO
This week, Fespaco unveiled the official selection for its 27th edition, which will take place from October 16 to 23, 2021, in Ouagadougou. The CANAL+ Group appears 17 times in this official selection with co-productions, pre-purchases, or acquisitions of series or films. Fiction section BAAMUM NAFI by Mamadou Dia (Senegal),...
New concepts and reality TV at the heart of Life TV's fall schedule
For its second year, Life TV unveiled its new program schedule, which starts on September 13, at a press conference on Friday, September 10. The main programs from season 1 will return with a few changes: " Willy à midi" will now be preceded Monday through Friday from 11:45 a.m. by...
Program on rape: NCI apologizes, removes the offending program, and suspends its host
The broadcast of a segment on the program "La télé d'ici vacances" presented last Monday by Yves de Mbella, which was intended to denounce rape, during which a man presented as a former rapist recounted how he assaulted his victims, has sparked outrage in Côte d'Ivoire. Ms. Nassénéba Touré, Minister...
AMBRE: new co-production between RTI and Known Associates Entertainment
Known Associates Entertainment and Radiodiffusion Télévision Ivoirienne (RTI) have signed an agreement to develop and co-produce AMBRE: a six-episode, 52-minute science fiction series. Known Associates Entertainment, co-founded by Tshepiso Chikapa Phiri and Dan Jawitz, is the production company behind the hit show Ubettina Wethu, broadcast on SABC1 (an adaptation of...
5,944,000 subscribers to CANAL+ Africa in the first half of 2021
At the end of July, the Vivendi group presented its results for the first half of 2021. Overall, the group posted revenues of €8.2 billion, up 11.9% at constant exchange rates and scope compared to the first half of 2020. As for the CANAL+ group, Groupe Canal+'s revenues amounted to...
Ivorian programs: NCI accelerates and takes root
The summer provided NCI with an opportunity to place news, entertainment, and fiction even more at the heart of the channel's editorial project, drawing on its expertise in quality production, its in-house teams, and its partner producers. Historic meeting The historic meeting between President Ouattara and Laurent Gbagbo on July...
IPTV in Ivory Coast in April and May 2021
TV advertising data published by Omedia for April and May show strong growth in April (+27%) and a slight decline in May (-3%). In total, since the beginning of the year, the Ivorian TV advertising market has grown by 24.5% in gross value. Following the staggered launch of four new...
The production company Kalliopé is turning its attention to Africa
Producers Florian Le Prevost and Catherine Zinck Goupil have announced the creation of their audiovisual production company, Kalliopé, driven by their ambition to raise the profile of the African continent on the international stage. Rich in culture and diversity, with 54 countries, but also and above all with a very...