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- 10 Dec 2013
StarTimes Bags Most Outstanding Digital Pay TV Channel
StarTimes, fastest growing pay TV in Nigeria, has been adjudged as the most outstanding digital pay TV Channel in Nigeria for the year 2013. This award was given by the Nigeria Broadcaster Merit…
- 7 Mar 2014
StarTimes Bags Digital Pay TV Channel of the Year Award
StarTimes, fastest growing Pay TV in Nigeria, has been awarded a certificate of Merit as the Digital pay TV Channel of the year 2014 by the Center for Leadership and Excellence in recognition of its…
- 10 Nov 2013
StarTimes Bags Best Pay Digital TV Channel Award
StarTimes, the fastest growing pay TV in Nigeria, has been adjudged as the best pay digital channel provider in Nigeria for the year 2013. This award was given by the P-126 Media Limited for the…
- 21 Jul 2020
StarTimes Strengthens Digital-TV Migration Drive with Pay-As-You-Go Bundle
StarTimes Nigeria, affordable pay-television platform says it has brought access to those that were excluded from enjoying the beauty of pay-TV through its pay-as-you-go bundle. This is even as the…
- 18 Jan 2021
StarTimes to Outpace Competition by 2026 in Digital TV Penetration – Report
The African pay-TV market is set to reach 51 million subscribers by 2026, according to a report by London-based Digital TV Research Ltd. Almost 17 million pay-TV subscribers would be added between…
- 11 Aug 2016
Africa's Pay-TV Subscribers to Hit 30m in 2021
Africa's pay-TV subscribers will reach 30 million in 2021, up from 16 million in 2015. This is according to the latest data published by global telecom-focused business firm Dataxis, which notes…
- 21 Sept 2015
MTN Acquires Pay-TV License, Set to Battle DStv
MTN Nigeria is venturing into Digital Pay TV services as the company has successfully acquired digital pay TV broadcasting rights from the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) for a sum reported to…
- 26 Nov 2016
StarTimes Unveils Integrated Digital TV Set
StarTimes Nigeria, a foremost pay-tv and technology company has unveiled its newest innovation and smart option for Nigerians - the integrated HD digital TV set. The new television product…
- 27 Apr 2016
StarTimes Emerges Best Pay TV Operator at BoICT 2016
Africa’s frontline digital television platform, StarTimes continues its winning streak by clinching the Best Pay TV Operator in Nigeria award at the coveted Beacon of Information and Communication…
- 17 Nov 2015
NBC Selects Paywizard for Nigeria Digital TV Switchover
Paywizard, the specialist in subscriber management for pay-TV, said that it has been selected by Inview, the broadcast and OTT software and services specialist, and the National Broadcasting…
- 5 Nov 2023
Konga TV Launches Today, to Rival Pay Tv Platforms
Konga TV, Africa’s pioneer 24-hour Buyers and Sellers TV platform, is set for public launch today, Monday, November 6. The launch also coincides with Konga Yakata, Nigeria’s biggest Black Friday…
- 15 Jan 2024
Africa Pay TV Market: Additional 12m Subscribers Projected by 2029
The newly published Africa Pay TV Forecast signifies a notable expansion in the continent's pay television subscriber base. An anticipated surge of 12 million subscribers by 2029 is set to increase…
- 5 Nov 2016
Nigeria Emerges Second Most Developed pay-TV Market in Africa
Nigeria has been rated second most developed pay-TV market in Africa. This is the main takeaway from Frost & Sullivan's "Pay-TV, Video-on-Demand, and IPTV Growth Opportunities in Africa"…
- 30 Mar 2022
Senate Asks Pay-TV Providers to Slash Tariff
The Senate has asked all cable television service providers to immediately review their bouquet prices downwards, in tandem with the prevailing reality of the economic situation in Nigeria. Ahmad…
- 15 Mar 2017
Africa's Pay-TV Market to Hit $6Bn
Africa's pay-TV revenue for the year 2016 stood at $4.4 billion and is forecast to reach $6 billion by 2021. This is according to market research firm Dataxis, which notes that for the year ending…
- 11 Nov 2015
Nigeria Ranks Second in Africa's Pay-TV Market
Nigeria has been ranked second to South Africa in Africa's pay-TV market with 14.5% of the continent's total market share. This is according to a recent study done by telecom, TV and media business…
- 10 Oct 2017
Africa's pay-TV Subscriptions Hit 23.7m
The total number of pay-TV subscribers in Africa has reached approximately 23.7 million. This is according to a report by market analyst firm Dataxis, which notes this represents quarter-on-quarter…
- 10 Aug 2016
StarTimes Redefines Pay TV with 2-in-1 Combo Decoder
StarTimes, foremost digital television company, has unveiled the first of its kind 2-in-1 combo decoder in Nigeria, in an unprecedented move to change the Pay TV landscape in Africa and offer surplus…
- 4 May 2018
The Future is Messy, End of Pay-Tv as We Knew It
David Abraham, founder of Wonderhood Studios on the value chain of pay-TV has offered insights into the trends observed and how audiences across Africa are changing. Abraham who spoke at the…
- 5 Dec 2017
Telecommunications Services and Pay TV Services is Set to Grow by 2% in 2018, According to IDC
According to International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Telecom Services Database, Worldwide spending on Telecom Services and Pay TV Services is expected to reach nearly $1.7 billion in 2017, an…
- 26 Nov 2014
ACTV, Home Grown Pay Tv Goes Live December 1
African Cable Television, (ACTV) pronounced ACTIVE, ‎a Nigerian -owned multi-media company that offers direct-to-home (DTH) pay-TV services, will be launched on December 1,according to the…
- 8 Aug 2014
SES, CWG Launch Maiden Digital TV Platform for West Africa
SES, a global satellite company, in cooperation with Computer Warehouse Group Plc (CWG), a leading pan-African ICT company, launched a new digital television platform, on SES’s ASTRA 2F satellite, at…
- 5 Dec 2017
StarTimes Starts broadcast in Maiduguri
StarTimes Pay TV, a leading digital Pay TV Company in Nigeria has extended its operations to Maiduguri, Capital of Borno State, In fulfillment of its promise to deliver quality and affordable…
- 19 Nov 2024
Global Telco, Pay-TV Spend Up 2.4 Percent in 2024- IDC
Global spending on telecommunications and pay-TV services will reach $1,544 billion in 2024, representing an increase of 2.4 per cent year-on-year, according to the Worldwide Semiannual Telecom…
- 23 Apr 2021
House of Reps Advances on Bill to Allow NBC Fix Prices of Pay Tv
House of Representatives is amending National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Act to enable pay-as-you-go services for digital satellite television, according to Idem Unyime, deputy chairman, committee…
- 20 Sept 2015
NBC to Improve Access to Digital TV
Emeka Mba, director general, National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), has said that about 22million households in the country does not have access to digital television as the country look…
- 21 Nov 2013
StarTimes Unwraps Extra Goodie Promo for Xmas
NTA Star TV Network-StarTimes, triple award winner for best Pay-TV channel for 2013 and leading digital terrestrial technology Pay TV service provider in Nigeria, is offering exciting new contents…
- 29 Jan 2015
StarTimes Says Digital Migration Will Replicate GSM Success Stories
StarTimes, a licensed Digital Terrestrial Television and multiple Award winners for best Digital Pay TV Provider in Nigeria, has likened the digital broadcasting switchover as would replicate…
- 13 May 2026
FG to Launch Nationwide Free Digital TV Platform June 17
Federal government, yesterday, said that it will now launch the so-called FreeTV, with over 100 channels for news, sports, education, entertainment and children’s programming in multiple Nigerian…
- 16 May 2021
StarTimes Pledges Technical Support for DSO
StarTimes Nigeria has said it will assist Lagos with technical support as well as improved content offerings on its lowest bouquet as the state transitions from analogue to digital TV. The pay-TV…