TV5MONDE, the French-language channel, will broadcast exclusively from March 1st for one month a new short program dedicated to portraits of influential women in Africa: "Women of Africa in Action." International Women's Day will thus be celebrated every day in March on TV5MONDE, in addition to March 8th. Designed by...
TRACE: new content sales contracts in Africa
At the end of the 69th Berlinale on February 17, TRACE announced the signing of new sales contracts in Africa, confirming its ambition to support African filmmaking through the group's content distribution division, Trace Content Distribution. These new sales confirm buyers' interest in Afro-urban entertainment. TRACE has signed a pre-purchase...
CANAL+ supports Beninese cinema
A few weeks after a training session dedicated to ORTM journalists organized in Mali, CANAL+ launched a new initiative in Benin, in the city of Cotonou. See also: Canal+ and Galaxie Africa train Malian television journalists Out of around 100 applications received, ten young local talents were selected by the...
The E Media press group launches its television channel i-TV
After launching the emedia.sn news platform and Senegalese radio station I Radio in October 2018, the Emedia Invest group has announced the launch of its television channel, i-TV. Led by Mamoudou Ibra Kane, Alassane Samba Diop, Boubacar Diallo, and Mamadou Ndiaye (former members of Groupe Futurs Médias), Emedia Invest has,...
VoxAfrica launches season 3 of The Voice Afrique Francophone
VoxAfrica announces the launch of the third season of the biggest television show in French-speaking Africa. The countdown has begun, and the show's many fans will once again experience excitement and suspense starting in October 2019. VoxAfrica, the pan-African television channel par excellence, remains committed to its vision of providing...
Canal+ Afrique: ES1 e-sports channel now available
The French television channel dedicated to e-sports, ES1, will now be available in Africa on Canal+ packages via the Evasion package on channel 113. It will be available in countries such as Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania, Niger, Central African Republic,...
A+ Ivory: initial elements of branding and visual identity
For those who will not have access to the new channel and will therefore be unable to watch it, here is an exclusive look at the branding and visual identity that will characterize the channel's personality. While the branding for A+ was created in France, that for A+ Ivoire was...
2018 retrospective: new ambitions for audiovisual production
Although financing and training are major challenges for the development of audiovisual production in French-speaking Africa, African production has a bright future ahead of it. The advent of digital terrestrial television, economic liberalization and growth, the rise of the middle class, and the development of digital technology are multiplying opportunities...
Retrospective: the key events of the 2018 media year
2018 was a year of strengthening and consolidation for audiovisual and media players Uncertainty surrounding elections, which generally slows down the advertising market, affected Mali at the beginning of the year, then Cameroon and the DRC. Senegal is in the same situation at the end of this year, as elections...
Press release: "Ambitions," the new TV5Monde short program
TV5MONDE, the French-language channel, will broadcast exclusively from Monday, January 7, and throughout 2019, a new short program devoted to portraits of influential men and women in Africa. Designed by the French company Onyx Consulting as a collection, the "AMBITIONS" portrait gallery offers a series of 60 exclusive 4-minute segments...