22 February 2018
Findings of the latest Africascope 2017* survey show the impressive performance of Africanews with annual audience in French-speaking Africa constantly growing at +19% compared to 2016.
The survey conducted in eight countries**, also reveals that Africanews’ awareness is now 45% up 6 points from 2016. This growth is captured by a weekly audience of 3.2 million viewers.
To measure TV audiences and awareness ratings, Africanews relied on Kantar TNS’ expertise through its Africascope survey conducted in 8 French-speaking Africa countries and 9 capital cities representing more than 18 million individuals, aged 15 and above.
According to the survey, Africanews’ audience is young and more affluent than the average of the target population. The majority of its audience are men, who account for 64% of Africanews’ viewers in these eight countries.
Africascope also highlights the strong TV audience in all countries surveyed, with an average 90% of people aged 15 and over watching television daily, which amounts to 16.4 million viewers.
Outstanding rates for Africanews in Congo Brazzaville and Gabon
Barely two years after its launch, Africanews is widely acclaimed in Congo Brazzaville where awareness of the channel reaches 78%.
Since its launch, Gabon has been very receptive of the new Pan-African and multilingual news outlet and the awareness rate remains exceptional at 68%.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon, Africanews also enjoys strong awareness levels of 50% and 46 % respectively.
Elsewhere in French-speaking Africa, the awareness of Africanews continues to see a steady growth. 40% of respondents have heard of the channel in Ivory Coast, 35% in Senegal, Burkina Faso, 33 % and 29% in Mali.
Michael Peters, CEO of Euronews and President of Africanews
“Since its launch, Africanews, as the first pan-African and multilingual media outlet, has been offering to its viewers, innovative and qualitative content produced by Africans and broadcast from our headquarters in Pointe-Noire, Congo.
This dedicated offer to a rising continent has resonated with local people who year after year renew their confidence for access to a relevant, credible and independent information.”
*Africascope 2017 (January-December) in 8 countries.
**Countries surveyed: Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou), Cameroon (Douala and Yaoundé), Congo (Brazzaville), Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa), Gabon (Libreville), Ivory Coast (Abidjan), Mali (Bamako) and Senegal (Dakar).
22 February 2018
Catholic radios in Burkina Faso are using the SatADSL broadcasting solution, one of the many satellite IP connectivity services that SatADSL can offer radio and television broadcasters in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.
SatADSL offers radio and television broadcasters efficient, state-of-the-art communication solutions. Often covering very large areas, they need to install multiple local repeaters to receive and regenerate the signal and broadcast their programs everywhere. The SatADSL IP multicast technology provides the perfect solution that meets their requirements. The SatADSL satellite solution is at present the fastest to implement, easiest to use, technically most reliable, and cheapest solution on the market.
The SatADSL solution is straightforward and can be implemented in only a few weeks. A standard satellite terminal with a parabolic dish antenna of 1 meter diameter will be installed and connected to an MP3 stream decoder with the analog output reserved for the FM transmitter. The stream is routed to Brussels over an optical fiber or satellite link where SatADSL broadcasts it via satellite.
The SatADSL multicast technology allows for simultaneous distributions to repeaters, regardless of the number of sites to cover. This makes the SatADSL solution much cheaper than fiber or any other technology. To guarantee perfect quality, a dedicated satellite channel is used for each FM transmitter. On top of that, SatADSL can provide radio and television broadcasters with specialized tools to monitor the entire network performance.
In Burkina Faso, the Catholic radio network RCBurkina was recently launched. The 14 diocesan radios of the network broadcast daily, focusing on human development and social cohesion. The RCBurkina network operates from a central radio station in the capital Ouagadougou, equipped with a studio and a satellite terminal. This station uses the SatADSL multicast solution to broadcast all programs to every radio of the network ‒ with a part of these daily programs being live broadcasts. For more information ‒ and to listen to the RCBurkina network: http://rcburkina.org.
Want to learn more about this customized, reliable and affordable SatADSL broadcasting solution? Contact us at +32 2 351 33 74 or by email at info@satadsl.net.
20 February 2018
Shen Haixiong has been appointed as the new head of China Central Television (CCTV), the 12th director of the state television broadcaster.
The 50-year-old worked for 26 years at Xinhua News Agency and later served as a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee and Head of the Guangdong Publicity Department from 2015.
Shen succeeds Nie Chenxi, who has been CCTV head since 2015.
19 February 2018
Jamie is currently Deputy Director of the World Service Group and Editorial Director of BBC Global News Ltd (GNL). He has been Acting Director of the World Service Group since the beginning of this year.
As Director, Jamie will lead the BBC’s global news services – BBC World Service, BBC World News and BBC.com – as well as BBC Monitoring. The BBC’s global news services have a weekly audience of 346m and the BBC World Service is currently undergoing its biggest expansion since the 1940s.
Director of BBC News and Current Affairs Francesca Unsworth says: “The BBC’s international news services are more important than ever, and Jamie brings huge editorial and leadership expertise to the Director role. He has a clear and strategic vision for the future of the World Service Group – both editorially and for our commercial services.
“The BBC World Service plays a unique role for the BBC, for Britain, and across the world, and I am confident it has an exciting future under Jamie’s direction.”
Jamie Angus says: “It’s a great honour to be appointed as World Service Director. There’s never been a greater need globally for the BBC’s independent, creative and engaging news services. With the expansion to 41 language services, we are already reaching new audiences everywhere; our English services on TV radio and online remain the gold standard for international news.
“With global concern growing about disinformation, ‘fake news’ and media literacy, the World Service Group has never been in a stronger position to show the way forward. We spot the stories, see the patterns and make sense of the world for our audiences. I’m very pleased to be able to lead that mission in the coming years.”
Jamie was previously the editor of Radio 4’s Today programme, covering high profile stories including the 2015 UK General Election, Scottish Independence referendum and the EU referendum. Under his leadership Today reached record audience figures of 7.4m and won an ARIA Radio Academy gold award for best National Speech Breakfast Programme.
Jamie joined the BBC in 1999 and was previously acting editor of Newsnight, editor of World At One and The World This Weekend, and editor of Daily News Programmes on World Service radio. He worked for the World Service Group in 2010-12 where he commissioned and launched new language TV bulletins in Urdu, Hindi and Swahili and the daily Focus on Africa TV bulletin, and worked on attachment as head of the World News newsroom.
His appointment follows a competitive recruitment process. Jamie replaces Francesca Unsworth, now Director of News and Current Affairs.
13 February 2018
SatADSL is pleased to welcome you at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from February 26 to March 1. During the world’s largest gathering for the mobile industry, our experts will present our innovative solutions for mobile network operators and showcase for the very first time our Cloud IP Satellite Services solution.
The new Cloud IP Satellites Services solution is developed by SatADSL and allows mobile network operators to offer satellite Internet connectivity without the need to deploy infrastructure locally or invest in equipment. This SatADSL solution is available on the entire African continent, and in different frequency bands (C, Ku, and Ka). The multi-technology solution offers a very wide coverage, while the SatADSL C-SDP (Cloud Service Delivery Platform) allows for packaged services that meet over 95% of B2B clients’ needs, a billing system, and an integrated customer management tool. In addition to being innovative, SatADSL is offering satellite solutions at very competitive prices, providing connectivity on the entire African continent, including in remote sites.
The SatADSL Cloud IP Satellites Services solution based on the SatADSL C-SDP comes with unique advantages for mobile network operators that no other satellite operator is able to offer at present.
Come and see how SatADSL is revolutionizing the satellite telecommunications sector! SatADSL welcomes you at stand 7G71 in Hall 7 of the Belgian Pavilion. We invite you to contact us at info@satadsl.net or +32 2 351 33 74 to arrange a meeting at our stand.
7 February 2018
At the 2018 HPA Tech Retreat, Signiant Inc, a market leader in intelligent file transfer, will demonstrate new, innovative capabilities that expand the value of its products within the media industry.
Signiant has led the way in cloud-native design, offering a category-defining SaaS platform that provides fast, secure global access to high-value media assets stored in on-premises storage or cloud-based storage. New innovations on show at the 2018 HPA Tech Retreat greatly build on this platform and help media & entertainment companies of all sizes speed up their operations by leveraging Signiant’s patented file acceleration technology, as well as by automating and simplifying file transfer workflows.
Held from February 19-23, 2018 at the JW Marriott Desert Resort & Spa, Palm Desert, CA, the HPA Tech Retreat is an informal gathering of the leading technical and business innovators from all aspects of the media technology sector, to discuss how constantly evolving technology is creating exciting opportunities in the capture, creation and distribution of content.
In the Innovation Zone, Signiant will demonstrate technology enhancements to its SaaS platform that allow professional media assets to be viewed in an adaptive bitrate format without generating a proxy in advance of the play request. The demonstration leverages transfer acceleration technology and cloud-native design to ensure a highly responsive end user experience without additional customer-deployed hardware or software.
“This technology has the potential to help users make better and faster decisions when transferring media,” said Ian Hamilton, CTO, Signiant. “As file sizes continue to grow, it is increasingly helpful to be able to easily confirm that a file contains the desired content prior to transfer, thereby ensuring that valuable time and network resources are not wasted.”
Ian Hamilton will be on-site at the 2018 HPA Tech Retreat to provide a preview of these innovations, as well as to discuss the breadth of technology and capabilities across Signiant’s entire product line.
For more details and to register to attend the HPA Tech Retreat, visit:
http://www.hollywoodprofessionalassociation.com/
(Source: Signiant press release)
