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Africanews appears on your television screens on April 20. In this article, discover something new about the channel on a daily basis till the launch of sub-Saharan Africa’s first multilingual and independent channel.
4 Days to TV Launch: Africanews’ Continental Reach and Drive
For africanews, TV screens will light up in 33 African countries and some 7.3 million households: South Africa, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo (host to our head office, in Pointe Noire), Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, DRC, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Sao Tome, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo.
Canal+Afrique, Startimes, Suburban and Zuku will distribute us via satellite connection (unencrypted until this fall); 12 Digital Terrestrial Televisions (DTT) as well as several national TV stations with regional ambitions will also relay our signal. In sum, starting 20 April, africanews will be (nigh) ubiquitous.
Euronews' Africannews will launch this month #media #Africa #TVnews https://t.co/aGssHq9pj5
— SmartMonkeyTV (@SmartMonkeyTV) April 8, 2016
For more, join us again tomorrow, two days before the D-day.
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