For the unrelated commercial television channel in Ghana, see TV Africa.
Television channel
TVAfrica
Country
Mauritius South Africa
Broadcast area
Africa
Headquarters
Johannesburg, South Africa
Programming
Language(s)
English French
Ownership
Owner
TVAfrica Operations S.A. Pty Ltd (Africa Media Group)[1]
History
Launched
July 1998[2]
Closed
1 October 2003 (liquidation)[3] 2005 (closure of the company)
Former names
dTb (Direct-to-Broadcast; programming unit, pre-1998) STV (East Africa; 1998-2002)
TVAfrica was a pan-African television network founded in 1998 by former advertising executive Dave Kelly alongside sports broadcaster Berry Lambert.[4] The network relayed up to 80% of its content to private television stations in sub-Saharan Africa and also licensed the broadcast of sporting events (excluding South Africa due to licensing regulations)[5] to interested broadcasters. At its apex, the channel broadcast to as many as 26 countries (up to 40 in licensed sporting events),[6] the majority of them English-speaking and French-speaking states. There were separate versions, in English and French.[2]
Funding problems led to the liquidation of the channel in 2003.
^"TVAfrica goes off air". BBC News. 3 October 2003. Archived from the original on 3 November 2023. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
^ ab"Transnational Television in Sub-Saharan Africa". University of Nigeria Interdisciplinary Journal of Communication Studies. 2005. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
^"African Media Group decides to liquidate TV Africa". BizCommunity. 3 October 2003. Archived from the original on 3 November 2023. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
^"Model mistakes". Mail & Guardian. 24 February 2004. Archived from the original on 3 November 2023. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
^"TVAfrica kicks off in high-tech studios". Variety. 9 June 2002. Archived from the original on 5 November 2023. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
^"AMG shutters cash-strapped TV Africa". Variety. 19 October 2003. Archived from the original on 5 November 2023. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
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