Every year, funding for audiovisual and film productions is the central theme of these professional meetings, which bring together buyers, sellers, and producers. These debates often fall short, as most participants can only note the chronic underfunding of audiovisual productions in Africa. Once again this year, this topic was at...
CAN 2019: UAR organizes marketing seminar with television channels
With just a few weeks to go before the kickoff of the Africa Cup of Nations, the African Broadcasting Union brought together African television channels for a marketing seminar on the exploitation and commercialization of TV rights for the competition. The participants gathered in Dakar from May 21 to 23...
Africa24: Cameroon government acquires Afrimedia SAS
End of turmoil for Africa 24. Since January 2019, Afrimédia SA, the French subsidiary of the pan-African audiovisual group Africa 24, headed by Constant Nemalé, has been undergoing judicial liquidation proceedings. At the end of this turbulent period of restructuring, the group announced that it had sold its French subsidiary,...
Discop Abidjan, May 29–31, 2019
The next Discop Abidjan will take place from May 29 to 31 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Abidjan. DISCOP Abidjan 2019 is the must-attend event for audiovisual professionals in French-speaking Africa, whether they are broadcasters, mobile operators, distributors, producers, or providers of technical services or software packages. As every...
Ivory Coast: official launch of the MTV Shuga series project
It's official: MTV Shuga Babi will be the first version of the MTV Shuga series adapted for French-speaking African audiences. Ivory Coast will host this first adaptation of the popular TV series, which chronicles the lives of young people living in Africa. The first season of MTV Shuga Babi will...
TV5Monde Afrique: The new web series "Un mot adopté" with Yvidero
TV5MONDE, the French-language channel, has been broadcasting a new comedy series exclusively online since May 13: "Un mot adopté" (An Adopted Word). "Un mot adopté" is a short and punchy web series consisting of 16 three-minute episodes, designed and produced by Totem Expérience. It plays on the sometimes unusual use...
CAN 2019: RTS obtains broadcasting rights for the competition
As announced a few weeks ago, the UAR has obtained exclusive broadcasting rights for the upcoming 2019-2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) matches in sub-Saharan Africa. Following this announcement, the marketing of TV rights to various channels was set to begin. Following a call for tenders launched by the African...
TNT in Ivory Coast: equipment exempt from customs duties and VAT
Last week, the Ivorian government announced the exemption of customs duties and Value Added Tax (VAT) on equipment needed to receive digital terrestrial television (DTT) signals in Abidjan. Set for June 17, 2020, by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the process of migrating to DTT and permanently switching off the...
Senegalese channel iTV begins broadcasting
After launching the emedia.sn news platform and Senegalese radio station I Radio in October 2018, the Emedia Invest group officially entered the Senegalese media landscape on May 6 with the launch of iTV. Following a test phase that began last February, iTV officially began broadcasting its programs, which are available...
CFI: two new series in development in Kinshasa and Ouagadougou
Following the success of the television series Invisibles and Sahko et Mangane on Canal+, which CFI supported through training workshops, the adventure continues with two new projects. Read also: Interview with Alex Ogou, director of the series Invisibles In Kinshasa, in partnership with production companies Clarimage and On est ensemble...