Posts Tagged with "dstv"

Africa Magic Yoruba launches; a 24-hour Yoruba channel on DSTV

Monday, March 1, 2010

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Africa Magic Yoruba and Africa Magic Hausa launched today Monday 1st March 2010. However, this blog post would focus on the journey of how the Yoruba channel came to be. There is no doubt that the country Nigeria is a very important market for Multichoice. Being Africa’s largest population and home to Nollywood, it not only [...]

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DStv moving to new satellite Eutelsat W7

Saturday, January 9, 2010

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Eutelsat W4, the satellite that beams DStv signals to residents of West Africa, is fast nearing the end of its life span. It was launched on 24th May 2000 from Space Launch Complex 36B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in the USA. According to Wikipedia: Following its launch and on-orbit testing, it was placed [...]

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Africa’s Got Talent. $1 million Grand Price.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

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America’s Got Talent is a talent-hunt show in the United States of America, seeking to find the very best of raw showbiz talent in that country. It is open to people of all ages, and does not restrict what type of performance the contestants put up. As a result, it has featured singers, dancers, magicians, [...]

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Want 6 Radio Channels on MultiTV? RESCAN your decoder

Monday, August 17, 2009

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Some of the TV channels on MultiTV have been out-of-sync in the past few days. Tuning to CNN International for example, plays the audio of another TV channel. This can be corrected by rescanning the MultiTV digital satellite decoder. Another reason to rescan is that Multi TV has added 6 radio channels to the service. [...]

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CNBC Africa now on DSTV West Africa

Saturday, February 14, 2009

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I was quite excited to see CNBC Africa beamed to West Africa on DSTV, yesterday. I had hitherto been looking forward to this since I am fully aware that CNBC Africa is the only serious business TV channel on the continent. CNBC Africa is a television service for Sub-Saharan Africa which was launched by CNBC and [...]

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…and GBS/GTV Closed Shop!

Sunday, February 1, 2009

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Shocking news. GTV, has ceased operations citing the effect of the global financial crisis. GTV was a multi-channel digital satellite TV service with active subscribers in 22 African countries but their sudden closure has left millions of soccer fans high-and-dry. London-based GTV, launched in June 2008, used Eutelsat’s W3 satellite from 7 degrees East, and [...]

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Does Ghana exist?

Monday, December 8, 2008

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The Ghana 2008 Presidential/Parliamentary elections has been over since about 12 hours ago and I find it interesting that many of the leading Western media outlets have not made a mention of Ghana 2008 Elections. Perhaps, Ghana does not exist on their radar screen. Ghana, like the rest of black Africa will only pop-up on [...]

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GTV on DStv

Monday, October 20, 2008

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GTV (Ghana TV) would soon be among the list of channels DStv subscribers in Ghana can enjoy. GTV is the television service of GBC (Ghana Broadcasting Corporation) which is the official mouthpiece of the Government of Ghana, and is the state TV/Radio broadcast institution. GTV is currently listed amongst the list of channels viewable to DStv [...]

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Big Brother Africa 3 [2008]

Sunday, August 24, 2008

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The 3rd edition of the popular reality TV series Big Brother Africa (BBA) is scheduled to begin later today at 17:00 hours. 12 house mates chosen from 12 African countries will enter the Big Brother house for 91 days. The show which is exclusive to DSTV is available 24 hours everyday on channel 198. Share your thoughts [...]

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DSTV Africa: No more SABC Africa, where is CNBC Africa?

Friday, August 1, 2008

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MultiChoice has finally removed SABC Africa from its bouquets: SABC Africa Terminates on Dstv – 31st July 2008 MultiChoice and the SABC regret to announce that from 1 August 2008, the SABC Africa channel will no longer be carried on the DStv service. Operation of the SABC Africa channel is no longer viable and MultiChoice and the SABC [...]

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Moments with Mo

Friday, June 27, 2008

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I have been seeing ads about “Moments with Mo” on DSTV channels for several weeks now but never bothered to check it out. I watched a full episode of the talk show on MNET West for the first time, today. It was terribly hilarious. Why? Today’s episode was all about laughter and the need to [...]

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Africa Magic Plus – Multichoice’s newest channel

Friday, May 16, 2008

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I have often wondered why Multichoice did not name their Africa Magic channel, “Nigeria Magic” The reason is very obvious to any observer: most of the content aired on Africa Magic is either from Nigeria or by Nigerians. Not that I have anything against Nigeria and its people but I know the content could be much [...]

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Nollywood movie: Anini (2005)

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

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I had the opportunity to watch a Nollywood (Nigerian movie industry) action thriller movie directed by Fred Amata on Africa Magic yesterday, titled: Anini. The movie was released in 2005 and features Nollywood stars like Bimbo Akintola, Fred Amata, Jeta Amata, Segun Arinze, Chidi Mokeme, Ashley Nwosu among many others with Jonathan Gbemuotor as Director [...]

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Zimbabwe 2008 Elections Results: How to monitor on TV

Friday, March 28, 2008

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So you want to follow the elections in Zimbabwe on TV? Well, CNN and BBC are both banned from reporting from inside Zimbabwe but a few other international broadcasters are allowed. I am aware of both AlJazeera English and SABC Africa. Al Jazeera English is available via satellite, mobile devices and affiliate TV stations around the [...]

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