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Kenya
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Showmax adds live sport to streaming offering
South African pay TV operator MultiChoice’s streaming service Showmax has begun to offer live sports…
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MultiChoice names Kenya managing director
South Africa-based pay TV operator MultiChoice has named Nancy Matimu as its managing director for…
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MultiChoice Kenya joins association to fight piracy
African pay TV operator MultiChoice’s Kenyan unit has joined local industry association the Technology Service…
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Richard Alden freed after Kenyan prosecutors drop charges
Former Wananchi CEO Richard Alden has been freed after Kenyan authorities dropped a murder charge…
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Pay TV numbers rise in Kenya as DTT FTA boxes decline
Digital-terrestrial pay TV subscriptions are rising significantly in Kenya, while the number of free-to-air channels…
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Court date set for Richard Alden murder case
Kenya’s High Court is to hear the high-profile murder case against former Wananchi CEO Richard…
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Intelsat targets East Africa with new Kenya office
Intelsat has opened a new sales office in Nairobi, Kenya, in a bid to up…
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ShowMax teams up with The QYou for curated series
Naspers-owned South African subscription video-on-demand provider ShowMax has teamed up with short-form best-of-the-internet channel The…
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Turner and AzamTV take Boing into East Africa
Turner has expanded children’s channel Boing into new markets in East Africa after agreeing a…
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Solar energy group teams up with ZukuTV to target off-grid Kenyan homes
Solar energy specialist Azuri Technologies has teamed up with Wananchi Group-owned pay TV operator Zuku…
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Africa launch for CBeebies
The BBC’s preschool channel CBeebies is launching in East Africa on the Zuku pay TV…
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ShowMax launches new SVOD service for Kenya
Naspers-owned South Africa-based ShowMax has launched a mobile-focused subscription video-on-demand service in Kenya. The video-on-demand…
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Econet launches free-to-air sports channel in Kenya
Kenya-based Econet Media has launched a free-to-air sports channels that will offer coverage of English…
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Former Ono, Wananchi CEO Richard Alden arrested for murder
Richard Alden, the former CEO of Spanish cable operator Ono and more recently CEO of…
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BBC trials new responsive news site
The BBC has launched a new responsive news website designed to present content on mobile…
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Kenyan film board threatens to block ‘immoral’ Netflix
The Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) has threatened to block Netflix in the country, claiming the SVoD…
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Orange sells stake in Kenyan operator to Helios
Orange has struck deal to sell a 70% stake in Telkom Kenya to Helios Investment Partners….
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Safaricom gets green light for broadcast channels
Kenya’s Communications Authority has approved local telecom provider Safaricom’s application for licences to broadcast four…
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FilmBox expands in African with OVYtv
SPI International/Filmbox has agreed with African operator OVY Network to extend their channel distribution agreement,…
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Safaricom moves into TV space with mobile broadband STB
Kenyan mobile operator Safaricom is moving into the TV market with the launch of a…
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Kenyans left in dark as commercial broadcasters go off air
Kenya’s commercial broadcasters shut down their digital signals at the weekend in protest at the…
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Kenyan pay TV operators condemn broadcasters’ ‘misinformation’
Kenyan pay TV operators GOtv Kenya and StarTimes Kenya have said they will take legal…
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Kenyan broadcasters team up to order digital set-tops
A consortium of Kenyan media companies has reportedly placed orders for 150,000 digital-terrestrial set-top boxes….
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Fox hires Wananchi’s Bekker to run African operation
Fox International Channels (FIC) has named former Wananchi Programming managing director Hannelie Bekker as managing…
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Tanzania’s Azam Media taps Kudelski unit for CI+ CAMs
African DTH provider Azam Media has teamed up with Kudelski-owned conditional access module supplier SmarDTV…
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Wananchi’s Zuku to upgrade cable broadband
Wananchi Programming-owned Kenya-based pay TV provider Zuku is upgrading its broadband network in the country’s…
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New TV audience measurement service goes live in Africa
Mobile survey firm GeoPoll has launched its new Audience Measurement Service in Africa, offering what…
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Zuku TV breaks into original drama
Wananchi-owned East African pay TV operator Zuku TV has commissioned an original, locally produced political…
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Shorts TV gains carriage in Romania and East Africa
Short film channel Shorts TV has launched on Romtelecom in Romania and on the Zuku…
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Kenyan regulator agrees new switchover date
The Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) has decided on a compromise date of September 15…
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