In addition to the report on the state of fiction production in French-speaking Africa, Adweknow has compiled all the information its subscribers need to gain a clear overview of the 17 new series currently being broadcast or in preparation for broadcast in 2021 (name, genre, number and length of episodes,...
SVOD: Number of subscribers in Africa to quadruple by 2025
Digital TV Research predicts that the number of SVOD subscribers in Africa will quadruple by 2025. The market, estimated at 2.75 million subscribers in 2019, will thus grow to 12.96 million subscribers in 2025. It is in English-speaking Africa, led by Nigeria and South Africa, that this growth will be...
CANAL+ holds a 6.5% stake in MultiChoice.
The CANAL+ Group announced that on September 29, 2020, it crossed the 5% ownership threshold of MultiChoice Group Ltd and now holds 6.5% of the South African company's capital. It should be noted that Multichoice, the leader in pay TV in sub-Saharan Africa, announced its listing on the Johannesburg Stock...
Arte Reportages: "A village dedicated to caring for the mentally ill" in Ivory Coast
In Côte d'Ivoire, in the small village of Trinlé-Diapleu, with a population of around 1,000, the Victor Houali center treats mentally ill patients from all over the country. There are no walls or fences here to separate the villagers from the patients. The patients are free to come and go...
YVIDERO on NCI for a second season of "Mme Tonkpi & Compagnie"
NCI, La Nouvelle Chaîne Ivoirienne, continues its fall programming season with the return of "Mme Tonkpi & Compagnie" for a second season. After the success of the first season, consisting of 50 three-minute episodes broadcast Monday through Friday at 7:30 p.m. on TELE D'ICI and digitally (averaging 200,000 views per...
French-language fiction production in Africa: current situation and prospects
The rise of French-speaking African audiovisual media is real. Diversity of content, diversity of production, quality, authenticity... Africa is a continent steeped in history. Stories that are told, but also stories that are brought to life on screen to satisfy an audience with ever-increasing expectations. Even though financing and training...
How to schedule different television series formats?
The length of series episodes varies greatly but meets programming requirements linked to the changing needs of television channels over time. 90-MINUTE FORMAT: this format is intended for prime time programming. It consists of either single-episode dramas (TV movies) or mini-series (2 to 4 episodes of 90 minutes). There are...
Interview with Damiano Malchiodi, Managing Director of A+ IVOIRE
A+ Ivoire was launched in January 2019, so this is its second season. What's new in the 2020/2021 schedule? For this fall 2020 season, A+Ivoire is even closer to its Ivorian audience. It's the big return of brand new daily seasons with even more truths in the show ON SE...
Interview with Cheick Yvhane, Director of Programs at NCI
At the end of 2016, we asked you about your channel project, and you described your channel as follows: "The main idea is to contribute to educating the population, strengthening democracy, and promoting Ivorian cultural diversity and multisectoral wealth." " Ten months after the channel's launch, what is your initial assessment...
Coverage of the election of the President of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire: HACA defines the regulatory framework
The Ivorian High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (HACA) has just announced several decisions allowing public service audiovisual media and private sector media to cover the election of the President of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, which will be held on October 31, 2020. 1/ WITH REGARD TO PUBLIC SERVICE AUDIOVISUAL...