I had the opportunity to visit Zaria, a town in Northern Nigeria, on my recent trip to that country. I was pleasantly surprised to have observed so many satellite dishes as I was being driven into the city. You can thus imagine my excitement when I got to my relative’s apartment and saw that he [...]

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. [...]

TV just got even more exciting in Ghana as e.tv the first privately owned but free-to-air television station in South Africa has launched a subsidiary in Accra, Ghana. This launch is a big deal because e.tv South Africa that launched in 1998 is presently the largest English-medium channel in SA. e.tv Ghana is a free-to-air [...]

Introductory note: To put this post into a proper perspective, you should read Multi TV Ghana, a new free digital satellite TV service first. Multi TV is at Testing Transmission phase and therefore, some of the glitches I have observed should be understandable to some extent. I got this installation since Thursday evening, my writing [...]

Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, the host of Joy FM‘s Super Morning Show has been teasing his listeners’ for some days now about a new service from Joy FM’s parent company Multimedia Group Limited. The service is essentially a free multi-channel digital satellite system available in every corner of Ghana. From the group’s website: MultiTV is a nationwide [...]

Amongst all the musicians that tickled my eardrums in my childhood days, the eccentric Michael Jackson stood out. It didn’t take much effort to notice this outstanding gentleman who could sing, dance, cry, choreograph and more. Michael Jackson was easily my favourite artist and if I’d be true to myself, still is. Though his dance [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A terrestrial digital mobile TV service has been launched in Accra Ghana, named BlackStar TV. According to the operators, this is the first implementation of the T-DMB technology on the African continent. According to Wikipedia, Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) is a digital radio transmission system for sending multimedia (radio, TV, and datacasting) to mobile devices [...]

A new TV station known as Net2 Television is currently testing transmission in the Greater Accra region of Ghana. The TV station usually shows movies every evening. I am not yet sure of their daily transmission hours. Daily Guide has reported that some members of staff from Metro TV are already leaving for the new [...]