{"id":9547,"date":"2016-12-20T12:24:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T17:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/viasat-world-to-roll-out-female-entertainment-channel-across-africa\/"},"modified":"2016-12-20T13:45:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T18:45:47","slug":"viasat-world-to-roll-out-female-entertainment-channel-across-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/viasat-world-to-roll-out-female-entertainment-channel-across-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Viasat World to Roll Out Female Entertainment Channel Across Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Viasat World is launching Viasat Life, its first-ever female-skewing entertainment channel, on three platforms across Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Viasat Life will be available on StarTimes, Wananchi Group\u2019s triple-play platform Zuku and Intelvision beginning January 2, 2017. Viasat Life targets young families with kids, as well as adults in the 25 to 49 demo. The channel will debut with key titles such as <em>Wake Up Call with Dwayne Johnson<\/em>, <em>Cooking for Real<\/em>, <em>Mary Mary<\/em> and <em>Bridezilla<\/em>. Other shows include <em>House of Curves<\/em>, <em>I Do Over<\/em>, <em>Bye Felicia!<\/em>\u00a0and <em>The Three Day Nanny<\/em>.\u00a0The new lifestyle channel features exclusive premieres of self-improvement-themed programming and factual-entertainment programming from across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>The channel joins Viasat World\u2019s portfolio of flagship networks that already broadcast on StarTimes, including Viasat Explore, Viasat History and Viasat Nature.<\/p>\n<p>Karin Heijink, the VP of products and channels at Viasat World, commented, \u201cWe are extremely excited about launching Viasat Life on StarTimes; it represents a thrilling new chapter in our development as a\u00a0global broadcaster. With its aspirational style of programming, featuring\u00a0big names from the worlds of food, fashion, movies and music, we believe Viasat Life will resonate with audiences across Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael Dearham, StarTimes\u2019 VP and managing director of media division, said, \u201cWe are very pleased to welcome Viasat Life in our platform, reflecting the ambition of StarTimes to always offer more diversified high-quality content.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Viasat World is launching Viasat Life, its first-ever female-skewing entertainment channel, on three platforms across Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":477,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1813,1811,1810,1030,1812],"class_list":["post-9547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-intelvision","tag-startimes","tag-viasat-life","tag-viasat-world","tag-zuku","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Viasat World to Roll Out Female Entertainment Channel Across Africa - TVREAL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/viasat-world-to-roll-out-female-entertainment-channel-across-africa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Viasat World to Roll Out Female Entertainment Channel Across Africa - TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LONDON: Viasat World is launching Viasat Life, its first-ever female-skewing entertainment channel, on three platforms across Africa.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/viasat-world-to-roll-out-female-entertainment-channel-across-africa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-12-20T17:24:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-12-20T18:45:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/logo.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sara Alessi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sara Alessi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/viasat-world-to-roll-out-female-entertainment-channel-across-africa\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/viasat-world-to-roll-out-female-entertainment-channel-across-africa\/\",\"name\":\"Viasat World to Roll Out Female Entertainment Channel Across Africa - TVREAL\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-12-20T17:24:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-12-20T18:45:47+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/3a30a856ec6d9cc2372bf054d26a0418\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/viasat-world-to-roll-out-female-entertainment-channel-across-africa\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/viasat-world-to-roll-out-female-entertainment-channel-across-africa\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/viasat-world-to-roll-out-female-entertainment-channel-across-africa\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Viasat World to Roll Out Female Entertainment Channel Across Africa\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\",\"name\":\"TVREAL\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/3a30a856ec6d9cc2372bf054d26a0418\",\"name\":\"Sara Alessi\",\"description\":\"Sara Alessi is the associate editor of World Screen. 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