Tag: Digital Migration
StarTimes LED Digital TVs Come with In-Built Decoders and Decent Pricing
StarTimes Media, a digital television company, has been on a mission to ensure that its consumers are aware of their not-so-new product, Digital TV,...
Digital Migration in Kenya, One Year Later
The digital migration debate was one of the most contentious issues in Kenya in 2015. So tough was the matter that the three main...
Standard Group Among 6 Companies Issued Free-To-Air Licenses
The Communication Authority of Kenya has issued six companies with commercial free-to-air licences. The six were among 8 companies awarded licenses pursuant to the...
Facts, Hits And Misses Of Kenya Digital Migration As Global Deadline Arrives
Today,17th June,2015 is the global deadline for digital migration .All analogue signals expected to be switched off world wide at 2359hrs. The deadline was...
Confirmed: Safaricom Android Decoder Is Called The Box, Will Do Video On Demand
Details emerging confirm that Safaricom's set top boxes are already in the country ready to launch and be shipped out. The TV product has...
Safaricom Likely To Partner With ADN Consortium For Android Powered Set Top Box
Safaricom might partner with the consortium of three major media houses in Kenya; Nation Media Group, Royal Media Services and Standard Group under consortium...
Startimes Launches High Definition Set Top Box for Kshs. 999
Digital Television Company StarTimes Media has launched two decoder models known as the Startimes light consisting of a Standard Definition and High Definition DVB...
Digital Migration Tantrums Over, The Hardliners Towed The Line
Digital Migration in Kenya hasn't been without it's fair share of abrasiveness. What with the three media houses using whatever means was available...
Here’s where to get a Bamba TV decoder in Mombasa
The digital migration process in Kenya has taken an interesting turn in the last few months thanks to a tug of war between the...
Safaricom Set To Launch Kshs 3,499 bob Set Top Box
Mobile service provider Safaricom is set to venture into the Pay TV space after applying for a digital broadcasting licence. Safaricom is said to...
Nation, KTN And Citizen To Come Back On Air, Digital Platform Only
Nation TV, Citizen TV, KTN and QTV will be back on air from Thursday at precisely 6.50 pm. This new bit looks like...
Did Kenya Government Finally Strike Agreement With Analogue 3?
Digital Migration in Kenya has by no means been smooth, what with the three largest media houses playing a "who's is mightier now" with...
Facts On Digital Migration You Should Pay Attention To
There has been a lot of misconceptions and half-truths about digital migration being shared online and offline. Communications Authority has shared this with us...
Continued Resistance By Three Media Houses Reversing Digital Migration Gains
Following the Supreme Court ruling on Friday 13th that directed that digital migration takes place as scheduled by the Communications Authority of Kenya, the...
Signet And Pang Free To Air Channels Missing On Bamba TV
Bamba TV launched with the promise of availing over 50 channels. These included all the free to air channels that are available to all...
Foreign Direct Investment To Play Key Role Towards Smooth Digital TV Transition
The past week has been awash with media reports putting the spotlight on the raging digital migration debate after the Communication Authority withdrew...
Communications Authority Revokes KTN, NTV, Citizen Spectrum And Bars Their Importation Of Set-top Boxes
Cat and mouse. The cat is stamping authority. The cat is Communications Authority of Kenya and this is after a series of events...
NTV, Citizen, KTN Ordered To Cease Airing Ads Claiming GOtv Is Doing Illegal Business
Three media houses (Nation, Standard and Citizen) in Kenya have been running ads on their platforms warning consumers against purchasing set-top boxes from...
Bamba TV Channels; What’s There, What’s Missing
Bamba TV launched late last year as another option for Free To Air Digital TV Set-Top Box, few days before the commence of digital...
What Happens If KTN Quits On Citizen, Nation At Africa Digital Network?
In a new and interesting turn of events, things could not be as rosy as the three major media houses might have painted. This...
Nation, Standard and Citizen To Sell Internet Enabled Digital TV Set-top boxes at Kshs 2000
After being awarded a license to carry their own digital signal, the consortium of three major media houses in Kenya; Nation Media Group, Royal...
Digital Television Switch Impasse Creating Uneven Broadcast Sector
The migration from analogue to digital broadcast in Kenya has witnessed unprecedented push and shove as stakeholders among them Communication Authority and ICT ministry...
Find Out Where To Get Bamba TV Set Top Box In Nairobi And Environs
Radio Africa Group recently launched and made commercially available their Free-To-Air Set Top Box, Bamba TV. This was just a few days before the...
Radio Africa Group Launches Free To Air Bamba TV Set Top Box In Kenya
Radio Africa Group on Monday launched a Free to Air Set Top Box in Nairobi, Kenya. This comes in just under ten days before...
Kenya on course for the Digital Switch
What will happen on June 17, 2015? This will be the last day for the switch off of the analogue television signals worldwide. In...
KTN, NTV And Citizen TV Channels Now Back On Air At Startimes
Startimes Media today made the switch back on for the three major TV stations that had been withdrawn earlier. The three stations discontinued airing...
COFEK Sues Pay TV Firms Over Missing Free Local Channels
The Consumers Federation of Kenya (COFEK) has sued two digital TV service providers seeking compensation on behalf of thousands of Kenyans cut off from...
Kenya Digital Migration in Limbo, Government Takes it Up With Supreme Court
It took over 3 years for the Pan African Network Group to build their digital signal broadcasting infrastructure. PANG's signal now covers 80% of...
How to Commandeer a Digital Migration: PANG’s license Nullified, Cofek, Kenya’s Media Owners Association Jump for Joy
Kenyan media owners were at sometime working up a foam, their reason? They had been strong armed in the digital migration process. This very...
28th March it is: Court of Appeal Extends Date for Kenya Digital Migration Case
The date of the switchover from analogue to digital TV signal will be determined on 28 March 2014, the Court of Appeal has ruled...
StarTimes Free To Air DVB-T2 Decoder Review
Over the last few months the conversation about Digital Migration in Kenya has been unavoidable. This is in tandem with the global analogue to...
You can now get your StarTimes Set Top Box delivered at your house
Why hadn't anyone thought about this? Door to door delivery for Set Top Boxes at a time like this when we Kenyans will tend...
Equity Bank to Finance Consumer Purchase of StarTimes Media Set Top Boxes
Equity Bank customers are set to benefit from a new partnership by the bank and StarTimes as Nairobi nears its digital switch-off deadline. Up...
It’s scramble for the unconverted as GOtv takes digital signal to Kenya’s North Coast
With just a few months to Analogue switch off in East Africa, scheduled for later this year, set-top box retailers are in the last...
Tanzania Gets Closer To Full Digital Migration
The entire Northern Zone of Tanzania will stop receiving analogue TV signal on 31 March. This is part of Tanzania's migration from analogue to...
