Econet Wireless Ltd. will shut its African pay-TV unit due to Zimbabwe’s economic condition and shortage of foreign currency, group Chief Executive Officer Douglas Mboweni said. “We regret to announce the discontinuation of Kwesé TV Satellite Service with effect from Aug. 5,” Mboweni said in a statement Sunday. The service was offered by Econet Media [...]
African pay-TV operator Econet Media has put its struggling satellite broadcasting business under administration. Econet, which operates under the “Kwesé” brand name, will begin talks with creditors to rescue the business according to the CEO Joseph Hundah. The company has appointed accountants Ernst & Young to manage the process and Hundah declared that Kwesé’s free-to-air [...]
Kwesé has inked a pioneering advertising deal with online betting company 234bet for the English Premier League transmission on Kwesé free sports and its sub-license stations, Africa Independent Television, AIT and the Nigeria Television Authority, NTA. The sponsorship will allow millions of English football fans to relish English Premier League matches live on terrestrial networks. [...]
Kwesé Free Sports, the free-to-air channel is offering viewers across the continent a variety of sports programmes including football, sports entertainment, basketball, tennis, and boxing among others has rolled out new TV programmes in Ghana. Some exciting shows to look forward to on the KFS channel include ‘Arena’, ‘Head Start’, ‘Home Run’, ‘Final Whistle’, ‘Kwese [...]
Kwesé has changed its strategy and launched a video streaming product Kwesé Play that will allow users to access VoD platforms from their homes. Kwesé attributed its new strategy to business models that were geared towards premium content rights and content consumption on digital media platforms. In February this year, Kwesé bought a controlling stake [...]
Pay TV provider Kwese has delivered converter boxes that offer customers with traditional television sets to connect to the Internet. The devices will be connected to their televisions and Kwesé subscribers will be able to link to an Internet hub that allows them to stream videos and movies from platforms like Netflix, YouTube, TED, Redbull [...]
Kwesé has taken a bold approach to go beyond TV and focus its business towards a digital future. The broadcaster is adopting a multi-platform approach by enabling a huge approach to broadcasting via its mobile platforms. Moving forward, Kwesé will now strengthen its VOD and OTT services via Kwesé iflix and Kwesé Play product offering. [...]
Kwesé iflix announced a slate of original programming marking its first foray into original content in a region with a large youth population and fast-growing Internet and smartphone penetration. With Africa’s diversity but also the challenge of developing content, the original series comes from Kenya, Tanzania and Nigeria. Kwesé iflix’s CEO Mayur Patel said that [...]
Kwesé collaborates with Kalakoda Boxing Promotions to bring the Friday Fight Nights series dubbed, Chaos in Lagos, to Nigeria on October 26. The much-anticipated rematch between Chomunorwa ‘Sting’ Gondarenda and Tony ‘Sugar’ Salam for Gondarenda’s WBF Africa Cruiserweight title will take place at the Federal Palace Hotel in Victoria Island, Chaos in Lagos. With Kwesé’s [...]
Vodafone Ghana has inked a deal with multiplatform broadcaster Kwesé, to provide the video-on-demand and live TV content to Ghana through the broadcaster’s video streaming service Kwesé Play. This collaboration will allow Ghanaians to connect a Kwese Play digital TV device to Vodafone’s high-speed fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) or ADSL broadband service to access unlimited live TV [...]