In 2009, Safaricom launched the Skiza Tunes service where the subscriber can entertain their callers with a song before they (the subscriber) can pick up his or her phone. By 2017, subscribers had downloaded at least 132,000 tunes, and the numbers keep rising steadily. You can use a Skiza Tune ...
Sing Plus, or Sing+, is a new karaoke singing and recording application specially designed for African music lovers with a songbook of 3,000 and growing instrumental tracks of trending Swahili and English songs in Africa. The brand-new app, developed by Eagle Mobi, an African mobile app developer, aims to connect ...
Naspers-owned video on demand service ShowMax has partnered with online video curator QYOU to launch Showmax-branded short-form online video series in a move to reach more millennial on the in East Africa. ShowMax will launch Q Hits next week March 1 with a collection of 13 half-hour episodes of popular ...
Numerous centuries ago before smart televisions (TVs) were developed, we would all pull together at the only home in the village with a TV, a red great wall TV, it was the excellent form of entertainment and the number one optical information pivot. We would close the door to avoid ...
Wananchi Group's ZUKU is set to distribute TRACE Mziki and TRACE Gospel for the east African audience after the two firms signed a content distribution deal. Olivier Laouchez, Co-founder & CEO, TRACE said “African music landscape is so rich and diverse that it deserves localized or thematic music channels to ...
A show highlighting all the drama that comes with preparing for a wedding is set to be launched next month, November, on Miasha Magic East (DStv Channel 158 and GOtv Channel 4). The new show titled Our Perfect Wedding (OPW) will follow fourteen Kenyan couples through their wedding planning process, ...
MultiChoice Kenya has announced a 60% price drop on its leading high definition PVR decoder - the DStv Explora – from Sh30,650 to Sh12,500 as competition from mobile Video-On-Demand services such as Kwese TV, iPidi, NuVu, Netflix and others set in. The new price is inclusive of the ...
Econet Media and the National Football League (NFL) have signed a deal that will see Econet Media’s Kwesé Sports become the exclusive linear TV broadcaster of NFL content to various markets in sub-Saharan Africa according to a report from Econet Media. Brokered by ESPN Media Distribution, the 5-year ...
Founded by Jesse Ahin Ghansah and Prince Boakye Boampong, a co-founder of Savannah Fund-backed BigX has launched OMG Digital, a BuzzFeed for Africa targeting the continent's 250 million millennials with entertainment and lifestyle content.First focused on Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya, OMGVoice has hit 3 million unique monthly readers just five months ...
After going full throttle at each other during the digital migration debate and implementation, broadcasters and the government will soon find themselves on opposite sides of the ring again due to the new broadcasting regulations by the latter still in the drafting stage. The Communications Authority of Kenya is required ...
MultiChoice's DStv Compact and Compact Plus bouquets susbcribers will have access to their FIRST high definition (HD) channel just a few weeks after the firm launched an affordable DStv HD decoder. With the new HD Decoder, subscribers also have access to the popular Hollywood movie channel, Studio Universal recently launched ...
Kenya's top entertainment news site Ghafla has announced it will delete all the *nude photos it has in its database and won't publish any such photo again in a u-turn move that has shocked many. Known for its serial gossip on Nairobi's entertainment scene and controversial photos of Kenya's 'celebrities' ...
