 | KENYA  Image by 123RF Angaza Boma is rolling out solar television systems in rural Kenya... |
 | UGANDA
[Walter Wafula] Pay TV customers in Uganda have received rewards from their services providers ahead of the December festive season. |
| UGANDA
[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
[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
[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. |
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[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. |
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[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  [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.
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| 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  [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.
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| UGANDA
[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  L to R: Stephen Isaboke (general manager of MultiChoice Kenya), Samuel Poghisio (Minister for Information and Communications, Kenya) and Felix Kyengo (manager of GOtv) The new pay TV provider, GOtv, which recently launched in Uganda, officially launched the digital terrestrial television service in Kenya last week and went live on 14 September 2011. The new pay service is aimed at giving Kenyan TV lovers access to news, children's programming, documentaries, series and movies. |
| UGANDA
[Walter Wafula] Uganda's minister of information has urged domestic pay television companies to increase local programming to be more relevant to viewers. |
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[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
[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
[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 [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 [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 [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 [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. |
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