Luxembourg and Johannesburg, South Africa – Intelsat S.A. (NYSE: I) announced on June 11 that it has signed a 15-year service agreement with MultiChoice, an African pay-TV provider, on a new satellite to be added to the Intelsat network. The new satellite, Intelsat 36, is expected to launch in late 2016 and will be co-located with Intelsat 20 at 68.5ËšE, Intelsat’s premier direct-to-home (DTH) neighbourhood in Africa. MultiChoice has been the anchor customer at the … [Read more...] about MultiChoice to expand its DTH services via new Intelsat satellite
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SES adds satellite capacity following a new capacity agreement
Luxembourg – SES (NYSE Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) announced on May 26 that CETel has signed a new capacity agreement for service on SES’s NSS-7 satellite located at 20 degrees West. The 72 MHz capacity utilised by CETel under the new agreement will enable it to extend their global corporate and governmental VSAT networks across Africa, meeting the growing demand in the region. Headquartered in Germany, CETel offers tailored end-to-end communication … [Read more...] about SES adds satellite capacity following a new capacity agreement
MIPTV: Azteca and Cisneros Media partner AfricaXP to launch Romanza+Africa
Cannes, France – Azteca and Cisneros Media Distribution (CMD), two of the world’s most prominent producers of telenovela programming, in partnership with digital content distributor AfricaXP, have launched Romanza+Africa, a new channel targeting English-speaking audiences in the African continent. Romanza+Africa is home to some of the most successful telenovelas of recent years, offering original programming from both Cisneros Media Distribution’s and Azteca’s vast … [Read more...] about MIPTV: Azteca and Cisneros Media partner AfricaXP to launch Romanza+Africa
Euronews moves its morning edition ahead by two hours
Lyon, France – After announcing a new on-air look adhering more closely to international news codes and personalising the presentation at MIPCOM 2013, the European news channel is now launching the second stage of its transformation: the morning edition. Euronews is taking on the morning news market in Russia, the CIS countries (ten former Soviet Republics), Eastern Europe as well as the Mediterranean Basin (Turkey, Greece, Cyprus), the Middle East, the central zone down to the Horn of … [Read more...] about Euronews moves its morning edition ahead by two hours
Discop Africa 2014 ups exhibit space
Los Angeles – Following a strong increase in demand for exhibition space, Basic Lead has unveiled plans to expand the current capabilities at the forthcoming 9th edition of Discop Africa. At the same time, the premier multi-platform content event in Africa announced that it will be supporting Malaria No More, a nonprofit that’s determined to end malaria deaths in Africa. More than 300 … [Read more...] about Discop Africa 2014 ups exhibit space
Euronews to launch Africanews in 2015
Lyon, France – Michael Peters, CEO of Euronews S.A., and Jean Obambi, Managing Director of Télé Congo, signed on January 25 in Brazzaville, Congo, a cooperation agreement for the launch of a Pan-African news channel to be known as Africanews. Under the auspices of the President of the Republic of the Congo, Mr. Denis Sassou Nguesso, they formalised the partnership that will lead to the launch in the summer of 2015 of a bilingual news channel in French and English, to be … [Read more...] about Euronews to launch Africanews in 2015