3rd March 2014
BBC Worldwide announces new regional head for Africa
The broadcaster’s commercial arm has created a new role as part of a wider reorganisation along geographical lines, to broaden reach in key markets such as Africa
16th January 2014
Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Tanzania: switchon, switchoff
A roundup of developments in the occasionally unpredictable world of digital transition in Africa
6th January 2014
Malawi is the only country to meet regional digital deadline
Africa’s SADC set the last day of 2013 as the date to start switching on digital TV and retiring analogue infrastructure
30th October 2013
Kenya pushes back analogue switch-off date again
28th October 2013
CBA board member to give keynote at AfricaCast conference
SABC’s Lulama Mokhobo will discuss the opportunities of ‘triple play’ at a broadcast technology show in South Africa
9th September 2013
Kenyan newspaper launches mobile news app
The Standard joins Kenya’s news app scene for android smartphones
3rd September 2013
BBC confirms Africa venture and China deal
The broadcaster sets itself up to tell the African economic story, and builds on its natural history programming alliance with Chinese state TV
22nd August 2013
State of the nations: digital transition in Africa
An interactive map and round-up for Commonwealth African countries and transition to digital TV
7th August 2013
Kenya to begin analogue TV signal switch-off in December
Nairobi to lead the nation’s digital TV switchover process, which is due for completion in March next year
8th January 2013