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| StarSat and AFOREVO join forces to elevate local content |
StarSat and AFOREVOjoin forces to elevate
local content
Leading PayTV operator
StarSatand
AFOREVO, home of the best online African entertainment video content, have joined
forces to extend the reach across the African continent. The launch of the
channel was announced at Discop Africa,taking place at Sandton Convention
Centre from 02 – 04 November 2016.
Commenting
on the launch, Michael Dearham, StarTimes Vice-President and Managing Director
of Media Division, said “Consistent with StarTimes mission and values, our
search for quality TV channels and award-winning television programming is at
the heart of our commitment to service excellence. We are pleased to announce
our partnership with Aforevo, whose exciting channel will most certainly add
great entertainment value and diversity to an already stunning line-up of
channels on our digital platform
AFROREVO
has two components; AFOREVO Movies,showcasing
a wide range of local movies on offer and AFOREVO
Music TV which takes a look atbehind the scenes of popular musicians and
interviews that allow fans to get to know their favourite musicians better. Itshowcases
a wide variety of locally produced music content.
Murphy Anawana, AFOREVO Foundersaid “We’re regarded as a
leading YouTube network provider of African content. African people want to
consume content that depicts their everyday lives and content that they can
relate to, in their desired languages. We want to reach all parts of the
African continent – creating, distributing and celebrating the wonderful
African content, starting from movies to tutorials and every other content
in-between. As such, this partnership with StarSat will provide our viewers
with more options to consume our content. Connectivity is still a challenge on
the continent and StarSat has helped us overcome this challenge.”
“As Nollywood seems to have captured the
imagination of Africans in particular, AFOREVO is supremely glad to be a part
of the solution that brings the whole Nollywood revolution and entertainment
experience to the doorstep of non English-speaking sub-Saharan Africans.
With StarTimes and AFOREVO having seen the potential of this niche that AFOREVO TV occupies, and StarTimes having wholeheartedly
opted to carry AFOREVO TV, exciting times await the target audience of
French-speaking Africans, said Afam Anawana, CEO of AFOREVO TV.”
AFOREVO
channel will be carried on StarSat, channel 606. Fans
from the rest of Africa can enjoy entertainment video content such as
movies, comedy shows, gospel music, high-life music, talk-shows etc. all at the
touch of a button.
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About StarSat
StarSat
is an affordable, satellite Pay-Tv network, proudly bringing digital TV into
more homes across South Africa. StarSat
offers its subscribers three world class value-for-money packages, from just
R99 to R199 per month, making digital TV available to everyone. With more than
100 channels on offer, subscribers have an excellent choice of movies, series,
drama, news, knowledge, family, sport, kids, music and cultural programming.
For
Indian viewers, StarSat offers StarSat Indian as an add-on package at only R99.
Viewers can enjoy nine dedicated channels in Tamil, Hindi and English,
featuring only the best from Bollywood, Indian glamour, entertainment, news and
topical issues.
Chinese
viewers have access to 17 dedicated Chinese channels - drama, news, movies and
Kung Fu available as a standalone Chinese package for R199 per month.
StarSat
is the brand that replaced TopTV and was officially launched on 31 October
2013, by On Digital Media (Pty) Ltd.
StarTimes has a 20% stake in ODM.
StarTimes is the worldwide technology company, established in 1988 in
China, and has licences and registered companies in 10 other African nations.
For more information, visit: www.starsat.co.za
About
AFOREVO
Murphy Ben International owners of
Aforevo TV having carved a niche for itself in African entertainment by
attaining the position of Number 1 YouTube network for African contents with
over 300 channels on You Tube the over 2,500,000,000 views and over
25,000,000,000 minutes watched speaks volumes for it success with African
content.
AFOREVO TV is a full thematic, French
dubbed Nollywoodchannel packaged to provide viewing experience for all French
speaking Africans who can resonate with
African entertainment through the
Nollywood genre of content and other African movies. It also offers French
dubbed TV series and other entertaining African content packaged for Africans
and the diaspora.
The Murphy Ben Group is well positioned
for disruption through key offering of African content to be unveiled with such
unique offerings such as Nollywood thematic
linear Channels in different native African language, Dubbing Services,
a music channel Aforevo Music and thousands of hours of Nollywood movies
originally in English but dubbed into French and other niche African languages
such as Swahili, Lingala, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Twi available for acquisitions. For more info visit
