PremiumFree, a free-to-air satellite television, has launched in South Africa. However, the newly launched platform has been around since 2018 in Ghana and Nigeria where it exports its 25 free channels to the country. The service uses Intelsat’s IS20 satellite and is now available via 40 million installed satellite dishes. Craig Kelly, CEO of AfricaXP, [...]
The Chilean Government, through the Subsecretaria de Telecomunicaciones (Subtel), entity in charge of controlling and supervising the telecommunications market in the country, announced its decision to reject the request made by FTA TV channels to put the analog blackout off in the country by 2026. This way, and as reported by the entity, the DTT [...]
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and eMedia Investments, the company behind free-to-air satellite service Openview, have announced a new distribution deal that will boost both companies in the free-to-air category of television broadcasting. The collaboration between South Africa’s fastest-growing satellite network and SA’s most established broadcaster signals a seismic shift in the country’s broadcasting [...]
NBCUniversal International Networks Latin America announced that, from now on, it will represent OneFootball for Latin American countries, including Brazil, in commercial terms. It is a platform that allows access to PPV and FTA football matches, as well as highlights of the matches and different competitions, including the Copa América, the Football World Cup, the [...]
The Sportfive agency has concluded a three-year deal to market free-to-air (FTA) rights to German top-flight soccer’s Bundesliga in selected sub-Saharan African territories. Bundesliga International and Sportfive will work together on finding deals for the African package, which contains one high-profile Bundesliga match per matchday as well as a weekly preview show and a highlight [...]
Millions of households across Africa, Europe, and Asia-Pacific will have the opportunity to enjoy a free-to-air TV channel via SES (www.SES.com) satellites that are intended to offer reliable, informative content about COVID-19. The channel ‘Fight COVID-19’ airs content that is dedicated at offering underserved and rural communities with critical information about how to curb the [...]
The Colombian FTA TV channel RCN announced last week that its international distribution arm agreed to sell its ‘El Capo’ series, starred by Colombian actor Marlon Moreno, to Estrella TV, a US Hispanic channel, where it will be released today. RCN originally released ‘El Capo’ in 2009, produced by Fox Telecolombia. Its plot focuses on [...]
TV Azteca announced that the Mexican news-focused FTA TV channel adn40 is now available for Amazon Prime Video subscribers in the country through Prime Video Channels, and access to its contents will be done for free during the first three months. The channel joins the Prime Video Store, recently launched in Mexico, which allows the [...]
The Colombian FTA TV channel RCN will premiere this Sunday ‘Confinados’, its new original series, fully produced with cell phones and remotely directed by video calls, during the quarantine period due to the advance of the Coronavirus pandemic. As officially reported by the Colombian channel, the series ‘explores the fun side of the moment that [...]
‘Los Internacionales’, a new Viacom International Studios (VIS), Olympusat, The Mediapro Studio and Flow co-production, will be released next Thursday, May 20th in Argentina through the FTA TV channel Telefe, and, on the next day, Thursday 21st, it will be fully available through the Flow platform, to be watched on demand. In addition, an official [...]