African Movie Channel Finds New Carriage with StarTimes

LAGOS: African Movie Channel (AMC) has brought its AMC Series channel to the StarTimes DTT and StarSat DTH African platforms.

AMC Series is a premium African entertainment channel showcasing soaps, comedy and drama from Nigeria, alongside series from all over Africa. The carriage agreement allows StarTimes’ 5 million subscribers across 14 countries in sub-Saharan Africa to enjoy the 24-hour linear channel for the first time. This second channel from AMC complements the African Movie Channel, which has been on the StarTimes DTT and StarSat DTH platforms since 2012.

Yvonne Dublin-Green, AMC’s channel manager in London, commented: “AMC Series is a pioneering new channel that will satisfy the growing appetite for African TV serial content. Nollywood movies are already a proven hit worldwide and a new channel providing exclusively African TV series content was a natural progression for us.”

Chinwe Chukwudire, AMC’s brand manager for Africa, added: “AMC has long established itself as a key player in the broadcast of Nollywood and African movies. The launch of AMC Series on StarTimes comes with a promise to our new audience that they will never be starved of visually beautiful and real African drama.”

Michael Dearham, VP of StarTimes Group, said, “The decision to consolidate our partnership with AMC was an easy and almost inevitable one for us; AMC continues to impress us with its natural knack and seemingly unrivaled ability to consistently bring the best Nollywood and other African programming to our very discerning subscribers.”