For its second season, A+ Ivoire is consolidating its programming schedule and adding a few new features to an already well-established lineup that remains largely unchanged. The most notable new feature this season is the live broadcast of the best matches from the Côte d'Ivoire Ligue 1 championship. Starting in...
StarTimes launches Dreamworks channel in sub-Saharan Africa
StarTimes has partnered with NBCUniversal to launch the Dreamworks youth channel on its packages in sub-Saharan Africa. According to the Africascope Kids study conducted by Kantar, in 2019, 91% of 4-14 year olds watched television on a daily basis. Youth television programs are attracting more and more viewers and therefore represent...
The Ivorian Council of Ministers adopts two decrees concerning digital terrestrial television
The first decree concerns the discontinuation of analog broadcasting. It had been announced on several occasions that this would be phased out on June 17, 2020, to make way for digital terrestrial television. As this deadline could not be met, a new schedule for the switch-off of analog broadcasting was...
La Liga Santander on STARTIMES AND CANAL+ until 2024
The summer saw a minor communications battle between Startimes and CANAL+ over Spanish soccer rights. On August 6, Startimes announced on its Facebook page that it had acquired the broadcasting rights for Spanish soccer league matches: LaLiga SANTANDER, until 2024. This information, which was reported in many African media outlets, could...
NCI dedicates a special week to Ivorian cinema
Ivorian films
The TV advertising market declined by 9% in the first half of 2020 in SENEGAL
Advertisers' investments in Senegal's main television channels reached 5.5 billion CFA francs (approximately €8.35 million) in the first half of 2020, according to the Omedia institute. This represents a 9.1% decrease compared to the same period in 2019. This decline was particularly sharp in June 2020, reaching -38% for that...
EURONEWS will repatriate the production of AFRICANews to its headquarters in Lyon.
Euronews has decided to continue Africanews' operations but will repatriate production to its headquarters in Lyon. "Despite numerous ups and downs and a difficult economic model, we have decided to continue Africanews' operations, with the aim of bringing it to economic equilibrium within five years, " CEO Michael Peters told...
STARTIMES expands its partnership with DISCOVERY
Pay-TV operator StarTimes is expanding its partnership with Discovery and adding the two channels Investigation Discovery and Discovery Science to its packages. StarTimes already broadcasts the channels Real Time, dedicated to African women, Discovery Family, and the English-language Investigation Discovery. Thanks to this new agreement, StarTimes is continuing its expansion...
Summer commercial offer on NCI
For the summer holidays, NCI is launching a special offer allowing advertisers to benefit from three adverts for the price of one. This commercial offer is valid from July 1 to August 31, 2020, and applies to the entire schedule. During the summer, NCI's schedule will remain unchanged, with the...
LIFE TV joins other Ivorian digital terrestrial television channels
JANUARY 14, 2019 for A+ IVOIRE , DECEMBER 16, 2019 for NCI, FEBRUARY 16, 2020 for LA 3, MAY 15, 2020 TELEVISION AL BAYANE JUNE 26, 2020 for LIFE TV. ???: 7 Info Nearly a year and a half passed between the launch of A+IVOIRE, the first to take the...