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LAGOS: The African Internet TV platform iROKOtv.com is adding to its extensive Nollywood catalogue with the addition of Hollywood, Bollywood, telenovela and Korean programming. The service, which is available throughout English-speaking Africa, already has more than 10,000 hours of Nollywood content. Launched in December 2011, iROKOtv.com offers unlimited, commercial-free viewing …

LOS ANGELES: DISCOP Africa is to honor Ivory Coast at the upcoming Johannesburg-set event, taking place November 5 to 7. Basic Lead, organizers of DISCOP Africa, selected Ivory Coast as Guest Country as it is set to play a key role in the development of TV content production and distribution …

BUENOS AIRES: A local adaptation of Telefe’s novela Forever Julia has been launched in the Middle East, under the name Seerat Hob (Story of Love). The Arabic version, which debuted June 29, is broadcast daily in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates exclusively by OSN HD Yahala. Future …

LONDON: TRACE Toca is a brand-new music channel from TRACE that launched on MultiChoice’s digital satellite TV service DStv in Angola and Mozambique. The channel is offered in Portuguese ("Toca" means "play music" in Portuguese). It is dedicated to afro-lusophone music and culture, featuring the latest hits in kizomba, kuduro, …

Sam Barnett, the CEO of the Dubai-based MBC Group, tells TV MEA about the strategy that has enabled the company to reach 120 million people across the region every day with its Arabic-language and imported content.

JOHANNESBURG: TRACE Sport Stars, a channel dedicated to celebrity athletes, is set to be made available across Africa through additional MultiChoice TV packages. The network will broadcast through MultiChoice's DStv Extra, Compact and Family packages. Previously, TRACE Sport Stars could only be found on the DStv Premium package. The channel will …

LONDON: Pay-TV revenues in Sub-Saharan Africa are forecast to reach $6.22 billion in 2020, up from $3.54 billion in 2014 and $1.92 billion in 2010, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. The fourth edition of the Digital TV Sub-Saharan Africa report asserts that South Africa and Nigeria …

JOHANNESBURG: FOX International Channels (FIC) continues to increase the distribution of its channel brands in Africa, recently placing eight networks on the new Nigerian pay-TV platform African Cable TV (ACTV). The partnership between the two companies increases FIC’s reach in Africa to more than 17.3 million subscribers with up to …

LONDON: The educational channel English Club TV has launched in Morocco to Maroc Telecom subscribers and in the United Arab Emirates on the DU network. In Morocco, the channel is available through the basic package in SD format. The deal was reached between ECTV Network Limited and Maroc Telecom. Andrew …

MUNICH: The drama series Lilyhammer, from the Red Arrow International catalogue, has been acquired by SVOD platform icflix for 23 countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Lilyhammer centers on a New York mobster who enters the Witness Protection program, which sends him to live in a small Norwegian …