Kwese TV and the Broadcasting Organization of Nigeria (BON) announced a deal on Monday that will see local stations broadcast the 2018 World Cup in Nigeria: https://www.channelstv.com/2018/05/21/kwese-sports-bon-reach-agreement-to-broadcast-world-cup-live/#.WwP2wUSIn9k.whatsapp Through Kwese’s FIFA WorldCup official rights, 32 matches will be made available free-to-air for terrestrial channels via this deal. The matches include Nigeria games, matches involving the four […]
Fernando Torres and Atletico Madrid arrived in Nigeria for an international friendly with the Super Eagles on Monday. The Europa League champions will take on a selected side at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium, Uyo, on Tuesday. NOT their first time in Africa, Atletico’s trip is part of the global expansion efforts of LaLiga, like I […]
With two months left to the start of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, StarTimes, one of the three rights owners of the tournament in Nigeria, unveiled its promotional video on Monday, April 9. The two and half minute TVC shows a timeline of Nigeria’s World Cup participation over the last 24 years through the eyes […]
If you have ever watched or read King Solomon’s Mines, you begin to see why it’s important to watch Black Panther as a detox for all the poison that British and American films and books have sown in our minds. For a long time, the image of Africa and Africans that have been painted in […]
Kwese TV was not joking when it declared its bid to shake up the African sport television market at inception. The broadcaster has made its intentions known through the acquisition of several top rights like the FIFA World Cup, the free-to-air rights for the English Premier League (that ensures one game is shown every weekend), […]
Stephen Keshi’s life was an eventful one of many firsts. He was the first Nigerian player to head out to Europe in search of greener pastures. His exit from the local league opened the doors for many other players to move to Europe. He won the Africa Cup of Nations as captain of the Nigeria […]
In what is a first of its type in the use of digital technology in Nigerian sports, football portal Naijafootballers broadcast its first The Ballers Awards entirely via Instagram Live on Wednesday, January 18, 2018. The show that was hosted by star OAP Murphy Ijemba began at 7 PM. The awards show was pre-produced and […]
After losing out on the English Premier League rights that have been retained by SuperSport until 2022, Kwese Sports has now gotten itself a good catch, the French Ligue 1. It was announced this week that the new broadcaster claimed the rights to screen the French top division for English and Portuguese language, Sub-Saharan Africa, […]
It is less than six months to the start of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia and Sub-Saharan Africa’s television rights have been split among four major broadcasters. While pay TV rights have been shared among StarTimes, Kwese TV and SuperSport, free-to-air (FTA) rights have been split between SABC (for South Africa only) and Kwese […]
The global drive towards over-the-top (OTT) in broadcasting has pushed many broadcasters to create their own mobile phone apps in other to extend their offering to subscribers. According to the most popular definition, an OTT is “any application or service that provides a product over the internet and bypasses traditional distribution.” Companies like Netflix, HULU, […]
