meobizy:
Growing industries, talents and pop up channels.

The Nollywood industry has seen tremendous growth not from any government in power but from the South African company.
In their Corporate Social Responsibility they financially and intellectually aid in the creation of home made movies. They then purchase these movies for a premium, allowing them the rights to air the content on their Africa Magic and streaming services only.
Many Nigerian made-movies not intended for international audiences enjoy the now provided priviledge from the opportunity Multichoice South Africa presents.
The company continuously repeats this success in other African movie industries, building a catalog of sorts catering to niche markets: a Nigerian aimed entertainment package for Nigerians, Kenyan themed ones for Kenyans, Ghanaian ones for Ghanaians and South African-centric ones for their home market.


Who said African music artists were exempt from the fun? To get a high quality broadcast release of an artist’s music video one has to buy it straight from the source. Musicians now enjoy the option of selling a video, which they will otherwise give out free in return for promotion purposes, to the organization for broadcast on select channels.


The Big Brother Africa reality show and its many spin offs have seen the creation of homegrown talent.
Starting from the first edition in 2001 to the latest, which ended April 2018, a slew of youths hoping to realize their potential receive the chance to familiarize themselves to a continent wide audience. At the end of every edition a handful or more are selected who eventually secure jobs in the entertainment or any industry of their choosing.
The company airs adverts from time to time highlighting the lucky of these few.

For the movie and series lovers among us the company caters to our needs. Periodically pop up channels are broadcast depending on the season or theme. The now-running theme of DC movies has me able to catch up to Superman movies I enjoyed from juvenile years, all presented in High Definition – a far cry in quality from videotapes available at the time.
I can’t wait for Christmas, the company always has an end of year themed pop up channel – a convenient way to engage the little ones around the house.
The binge channel is a full weekend running event. Here series aficionados can watch whatever show the company chooses to air, running full season packages in a matter of days. All I do is press record and view what was captured later, NEPA is not friendly to long sit-down-and-watch activities so I scrape through whatever was collected from the experience at my convenience.

Catch Up
This function, I always claim, is enough to turn any average TV viewer into a couch potato.
Here, DStv [Multichoice] offers the opportunity for viewers to re-watch most shows missed during the week.
This is a first in Africa. Anyone who doubts can freely research and correct my assumption.
DStv caches select shows on the viewer’s decoder hard drive, enabling them choose favourites within the period of two to three weeks and enjoy in High Definition. I find this more rewarding than downloading the same shows online, which may come at a lower quality.


That’s it for now. If I come up with more reasons this thread is always open to continue. For now I can’t think of any more.

Setnigeria:


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edoairways:
meobizy I noticed that Africa magic air more of Nigerian movies or is exclusive to Nigerian market?

meobizy:
The pandemic brought forth a decline in cinema goers worldwide. The most ardent of them were forced to stay home when due to surging infection rates, movie theaters were forced to close for months on end. This turned a blessing to service providers as their contracts with film studios now mean a straight-to-broadcast release of recent blockbusters. It was a joyous moment to see on Multichoice's Box Office selection, a movie which was released worldwide only a day ago. Studios have realized that slow income is better than no income and have since adjusted expectations to meet reality. My dream of watching current cinema line ups comfortably at home has become the norm. It was only a matter of Multichoice eventually joining the bandwagon. I still prefer cinemas for the big picture and sound but will settle for a lesser offering if comfort is included.

edoairways:

Box office Vs cinemas, which shows current movies?

meobizy:

For now it’s still cinemas. The whole new-movies-on-demand thing started recently so I’m expecting cinema releases to appear on Box Office anytime from the end of February and onwards.