Guinea's High Authority for Communication (HAC) has ordered the immediate withdrawal of West Africa TV from all broadcasting packages, including those of Canal+ Guinea and Startimes Guinea. This decision follows the broadcast of the program Star en ligne on May 30, 2025, during which comments deemed "offensive to public decency and...
Appointments at TV5 Monde
As part of TV5Monde's strategic information development plan, the channel has made several appointments and promotions to strengthen its multilateral information offering, roll out magazines and special operations, and accelerate digital production. Florence Lozach has been appointed editorial director of TV5Monde. She will take up her post on June 16....
CANAL+/ MULTICHOICE takes another step toward completing the transaction
More than two years after CANAL+ first made an offer to acquire Multichoice, and four months before the transaction deadline on October 8, 2025, the two companies have informed their shareholders that the South African Competition Commission has "recommended that the South African Competition Tribunal approve the proposed transaction, subject...
TV5 Monde suspended again in Mali
The media regulatory authority, the High Authority for Communication of Mali (HAC), has sent a letter to local audiovisual service distributors requesting that they stop broadcasting TV5Monde until further notice. The High Authority for Communication in Mali (HAC) has criticized the media outlet for "failing to uphold its duty of...
Benin, 9th country for CANALBOX
On April 30, 2025, Vivendi Africa Group (GVA), now part of CANAL+ Group, officially launched its CANALBOX fiber optic internet service in Benin. The launch ceremony was attended by representatives from the Electronic Communications and Postal Regulatory Authority (ARCEP), the Ministry of Digital Affairs, and the Ministry of Economy and...
CANAL+ Group publishes its results for the first quarter of 2025.
Since its listing on the London Stock Exchange, the CANAL+ Group no longer publishes details of its results in Africa, as this information is now aggregated with Asia. As a result, revenue in Asia and Africa fell by 2.3% (€267 million) due to a high base in Q1 2024 as...
TF1+: a free premium streaming service coming soon to French-speaking Africa
As a guest of the Association of Economic and Financial Journalists (Ajef) and the SERIESMANIA Forum, Rodolphe Belmer, CEO of TF1, repeatedly mentioned the simultaneous launch of TF1+ in 27 French-speaking African countries (Maghreb and sub-Saharan French-speaking Africa) starting in June 2025. "In the audiovisual sector, size is key because...
CANALBOX, ranked first in quality of experience (QoE) for fixed Internet in TOGO, ORANGE, ranked first in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa.
ARCEP TOGO has just published the quality of experience (QoE) for fixed internet measured from April 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025, in Togo, in partnership with nPerf, the global leader in crowdsourcing. nPerf is a French company based in Lyon that measures, evaluates, and improves understanding of Internet connectivity...
Launch of Season 4 of DJ Battle Africa: Who will be the continent's new DJ?
(Press release)TV5MONDE announces the return of its flagship music show "DJ Battle Africa" for a fourth season, airing from April 26, 2025, every Saturday at 9:30 p.m. on TV5MONDE Afrique and available on the TV5MONDEplus streaming platform. DJ Battle Africa is a high-profile television competition that seeks to crown the...
The SRTB's new visual identity
There were certainly many people tuning in at 8 p.m. on Sunday, April 6, to discover the SRTB's new visual identity duringthe 8 p.m. news broadcast.Since April 6, the SRTB, headed by Angela Aquereburu-Rabatel, has replaced the ORTBand taken the opportunity to modernize its image.The visual identity features the colors...