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...
Analog switch-off: further delay in South Africa
Failure, bankruptcy, fiasco, disaster, catastrophe... the strongest words are being used todescribe the situation of DTT in South Africa. Senegal, which is also experiencing setbacksand difficulties with digital terrestrial television, is not alone in thissituation.Scheduled for March 31, 2025, the switch-off of analog television has been suspended by the North...
Trump shuts down VOICE OF AMERICA
The discontinuation of Voice of America (VOA) in the Hausa language has been widely discussed because it had aparticularly strong impact on listeners in West Africa and Nigeria, where this languageis spoken by a large part of the population.Created in 1979, VOA's Hausa service, known as Muryar Amurka, reachedup to...
Strategic partnership between MTN and CANAL+ in Benin
MTN and Canal+ announce a strategic partnership that will allow MTN subscribers to access their favorite programs anytime, directly on their smartphones. With more than 8 million subscribers, MTN Benin is seeking, through this partnership, to expand access to its offerings by providing CANAL+ content. For CANAL+ Benin, this partnership...
Confusion surrounding digital terrestrial television in Senegal
The battle rages on over TDS's recent decision to limit channel distribution to those that were sufficiently up to date with their broadcasting fees. The signals of RDV, WALF TV, ITV, TOUBA TV, AFRICA 7, Bantamba TV, and other media outlets have been interrupted. This is perceived as disguised censorship...