KENYA Angaza Boma bringing solar TVs to rural KenyaImage by 123RF | |
UGANDA Pay TV subscribers get rewarded[Walter Wafula] Pay TV customers in Uganda have received rewards from their services providers ahead of the December festive season. | |
UGANDA MultiChoice Uganda's channels on the move[Walter Wafula] MultiChoice viewers of NTV Uganda can now access it on DStv Channel 283 instead of 141, following an automatic migration on the pay TV platform which occurred on Monday, 1 October 2012. | |
KENYA Digital pay TV company eyes Kenya's key towns[Carole Kimutai] Kenya's digital pay TV market is becoming more competitive with the aggressive entry of StarTimes Media Kenya, a company that recently launched its services in Kenya's capital Nairobi and second city Kisumu. StarTimes has now launched in Mombasa, the third city as part of its plans to reach seven major towns in Kenya by the end of 2012. | |
UGANDA [Executive Check] GOtv eyes expansion in Africa as it marks one year of business[Walter Wafula] GOtv, a low cost pay television service owned and operated by MultiChoice Africa celebrates its first year in business in four markets. Patricia Kiconco, the country manager GOtv Uganda speaks about the performance of the brand and its future plans for Africa. | |
UGANDA [Executive Check] Mobile pay-TV takes shape in Uganda[Walter Wafula] The mobile phone is changing lifestyles and the business landscape in Africa. Many companies are innovating around the technology to thrive and remain relevant to their customers. Simon Arineitwe, country sales manager at StarTimes Uganda, speaks about the benefits of mobile TV and the firm's plans for the country. | |
KENYA CNN faces wrath of Kenyans[Carole Kimutai] Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. On Saturday the scorned woman was Kenya and the culprit was the Cable News Network (CNN), the US cable news channel. On Saturday night, there was a grenade explosion at a busy bus station in Nairobi that killed six people and injured about 63 others - according to latest media reports. Following the attack in Nairobi, CNN immediately broadcast a report about the blast with a graphic headline titled "Violence in Kenya." | |
UGANDA Uganda's wildlife set for the screen[Walter Wafula] Uganda Wild At Heart , a television show which comes to screens in February 2011, is set to promote tourism and wildlife conservation in Uganda. | |
UGANDA Inspire Africa TV show premiers in Uganda[Walter Wafula] Season 1 of Project Inspire Africa, a reality TV show aimed at transforming Africa by discovering and empowering the continent's budding entrepreneurs premiered in Kampala on Wednesday, 4 January 2011. | |
KENYA Kenya: Bank sponsors business reality show[Carole Kimutai] CfC Stanbic Bank will sponsor a television reality show, CfC Stanbic Bank Magnate, which seeks to find and nurture Kenya's future entrepreneurs. The business reality show, which started yesterday, Thursday 27th October 2011, will air on national television broadcaster Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) and Kiss TV. | |
UGANDA Kenya's Zuku TV targets 100 000 Ugandan viewers[Carole Kimutai] Zuku TV, a consumer brand of the Wananchi Group has an ambitious plan to register 100 000 subscribers in Uganda in the next two years. | |
KENYA Kenya gets GOtv on DVB-T2 technologyL to R: Stephen Isaboke (general manager of MultiChoice Kenya), Samuel Poghisio (Minister for Information and Communications, Kenya) and Felix Kyengo (manager of GOtv) | |
UGANDA Uganda: Information minister roots for local television content[Walter Wafula] Uganda's minister of information has urged domestic pay television companies to increase local programming to be more relevant to viewers. | |
EAST AFRICA East Africa TV show to inspire African entrepreneurs[Walter Wafula] Project Inspire Africa, a reality television show and competition, has been unveiled in East Africa with the aim of engineering successful entrepreneurship in the region. The initiative by Inspire Africa aims at building entrepreneurship in East Africa through identifying the best business minds and rewarding them with startup capital. | |
UGANDA Television stations battle for superiority in Uganda[Walter Wafula] Uganda's television houses are battling for superiority in the eyes of advertisers following the release of a new media survey by research firm Steadman Synnovate in Uganda. | |
UGANDA Uganda halts analogue broadcasting licences[Walter Wafula] If you want a licence to offer broadcasting services in Uganda, you should be prepared to provide only digital services. Uganda has stopped licensing analogue broadcasters as it prepares to migrate to digital television broadcasting, according to the domestic regulator of the broadcasting industry. | |
UGANDA 'Who wants to be a millionaire?' launches in Uganda[Walter Wafula] Ugandans are set to win millions of cash after a local mobile operator introduced the 'Who wants to be a millionaire?' tv gameshow in Uganda. The popular UK show has been localised by fixed line operator Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL), and Protel Studios, a Kenya-based independent content producer. | |
EAST AFRICA Kenya's Citizen TV extends service to Uganda[Walter Wafula] Television viewers in Uganda have a new alternative source of entertainment and news, following the entry of Kenya's Citizen Television into the country. | |
KENYA Kenya begins march to digital broadcasting[Carole Kimutai] Kenya has begun migrating to digital broadcasting technology ahead of the June 2012 deadline. In December 2009, Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki launched the Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial (DVB-T) technology. | |
UGANDA Digital broadcasting to encourage niche television in Uganda[Walter Wafula] The migration of Uganda from analogue to digital broadcasting will give birth to specialised broadcasting by television companies in the country, according to an expert who is piloting digital terrestrial TV in Uganda. |