Category Archives: Free to Air

SABC rolls out 24-hour sports channel

Public broadcaster SABC has officially introduced its 24-hour sports channel with exciting and compelling sports content via free-to-air broadcasts and online streaming. The channel had its soft launch on 15 April 2021 and is now available on SABC digital TV broadcasting, Openview channel 124, and the TelkomONE streaming service. The Sport General Manager of SABC, [...]

TelkomONE introduces free catch-up service in SA

Telkoms video-streaming platform has introduced a free catch-up functionality across its SABC and other free-to-air channels on the platform a first-of-its-kind value-added offering by a video-on-demand service locally. Catch-up is a system-driven recording of various popular programs across your favourite channels, that is then made available as a single asset, on-demand.  This means you [...]

TV Ciudad plans to triple in-house content hours in 2022

According to the information reported this last Friday, June 4th, on the Uruguayan newspaper El Observadors web version, the Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo (IMM), owner of the Uruguayan FTA TV channel TV Ciudad, intends for the channel to increase to more than double its production over next year. The entity expects that the TV channels [...]

Globo expands its TV rights acquisition to broadcast the FIFA World Cup’s South American Qualifiers starting this Thursday

Brazilian Grupo Globo announced days ago its decision to expand its TV rights to broadcast the South American Qualifying matches towards the next FIFA World Cup, which will be held in Qatar, in 2022. Until 2020, the company was only the holder of the rights for those matches that both Brazilian and Argentine National Teams [...]

Wom officially enters the pay TV market in Chile with Wom TV

Chilean mobile operator Wom (Novator Partners) has finally launched its new pay TV offer, which it called Wom TV, and had been into trial versions for about a year. According to the information reported from the company’s official website, Wom TV allows access to FTA TV and pay TV channels in the country, as well [...]

SBT strengthens its sports catalog in Brazil and confirms it will broadcast Copa América 2021’s matches on FTA TV

According to information officially reported by the Brazilian TV broadcaster SBT (Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão), the company, which already broadcasts Copa Libertadores matches on FTA TV in the country since last year, confirmed that it will also air the Copa America in for the Brazilian territory exclusively, as of June 13th. The announcement was made [...]

Nation Media Group and TV Media Sport announce new partnership in Kenya

TV Media Sport (TVMS), the long-time free-to-air media rights partner of World Athletics in Sub-Saharan Africa and Nation Media Group (NMG), one of the most prominent independent media houses in East and Central Africa, today announced partnership that makes NTV, one of the leading television stations in Kenya, the official and exclusive free-to-air broadcast partner [...]

CN Arabic to switch to Eutelsat 7 West A in MENA

In order to continue watch CN Arabic without interruption, Arabic-speaking viewers must recalibrate the frequency of their satellite TV receivers. Cartoon Network Arabic is now getting its transponder North African satellite to the satellite Eutelsat 7 West A7.3 °w. The shift, which began on March 27, will end on April 27. During this time, CN [...]