Category: World Service
Date: 24.07.2006
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Subscribers to CANALSAT HORIZONS in 23 African countries can now access the
BBC's radio services in English and Arabic.
CANALSAT HORIZONS is broadcast by Multi TV Afrique, a subsidiary of MEDIA
OVERSEAS, CANAL+ GROUP.
Multi TV Afrique has reached agreement with the BBC
World Service whose radio programmes are now heard on channel 108
(English) and on channel 109 (Arabic) within the CANALSAT HORIZONS package.
The 105,000 current subscribers now enjoy a range of
BBC programmes including news, documentaries and analysis, 24-hours a day,
seven days a week, in English and Arabic.
The package is available on a subscription basis in: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville, DR Congo, Central African Republic, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea Conakry, Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.
Simon Kendall, BBC World Service, said: "We are delighted with this agreement
which provides another platform for our English and Arabic radio services across
West and Central Africa."
Jean Christophe Ramos, General Manager of Multi TV Afrique, said: "We're
thrilled to be adding the BBC's English and Arabic radio news services to the
first DTH French platform in Sub-Saharan Africa in its package CANALSAT
HORIZONS."
Notes to Editors
Multi TV Afrique is a subsidiary of MEDIA OVERSEAS which is 100% part of CANAL+
GROUP and manages its audiovisual activities in Africa.
Multi TV AFRIQUE handles
the production and marketing of CANAL+ HORIZONS, the premium channel devoted to
Africa.
