@Niyi09, make up your mind, lol
I feel for them too , the project is big and they need all the support they can get from nigcomsat owners nasdr.
well lets wait and see, no be say dem sef no sabi wetin good but man mi when ur bizness begin craze u, u sef go begin craze.
I cant imagine how much heat toyin subairs bankers will be putting on hi ass, lol

him for no start at all if him neva ready

hi,senga you are in the uk,saying what u don't know.who told u that hitv don't have a playout centre.for ur infomation they have 2 state of the art playout centre.one for cable[200 channels capacity],the other for satellite [50 channels capacity].hitv also uplinks it's channels by it self.no other operators[fstv,titv,trendtv] has done that.hitv has invested millons of dollar to thier operation in nigeria.with time u will be inform on the new channel to be added.

lol@urfriend

c'mon man; this is a blatant exhibition of ignorance.
Of cause the have their in-house transmission desk with the so-call 2 million channels or so, wetin them for use before.
Playout centres are different, anyway never mind, i go confuse u some more if i try n explain.

Abeg na only intellectuals i want to talk to from now on,
lol

i have been experiencing scrambled channel on my Hitv decoder since 2days ago.i am on the satellite package and i want to know if this is a general problem.

pls i need assistance concerning my smart card, the card stop working since last week. I mail hitv with no response. I tried calling their office I was only hearing machine not human. I subscribe for one year since september last yaer. my card no is 017-1002-0836-2. help

Hi Urfriend,

Sure I am in the UK what difference does that make, I know the Nigerian scene very well and I travel in and out for many years and love Nigeria. I would also love to see HITV succeed but we live in a real world. I know that HITV have spent millions in playout centres but transponders send down the signals. Are you trying to tell me that HITV can have more that satellite 15 channels on MPEG2 and one transponder? I would love to know if the technology exists, by the way MPEG4 carries 25-26 channels on one transponder.

The industry in Europe and the States are going to MPEG4 for HDTV, mark my words that is the future. HITV invested in the cheaper MPEG2 technology and because of that will have to invest a lot more money if they ever want to go HDTV. Nigeria is selling almost 8,000 HDTV ready flat screens a month and the only way that people in Nigeria will see this high definition revolution; that is until a DTH platform introduces it, is with Blue-ray or HD DVD players. Nigeria deserves the latest television DTH technologies you certainly have it in the phone sector, I see phones in Nigeria at the same time they are for sale in Europe.

Nigerian investors are frightened to invest into these Nigerian DTH projects especially when the see the failures of the past FSTV and Trend. HITV have had a great opportunity getting investors, believe me without EPL they would have found it very difficult to get them. Lets hope they can build on it because if they go down then the possibility of Nigerian investors coming into this sector again are very very slim.

bomboyi:

please i need assistance concerning my smart card, the card stop working since last week. I mail hitv with no response. I tried calling their office I was only hearing machine not human. I subscribe for one year since september last yaer. my card no is 017-1002-0836-2. help

They will never reply your emails. It is a taboo for them. As per the phone calls, the operators have scrambled . Day in day out you will continue to get countless agony HITV is causing Nigerians. I hope they help fix it before the EPL ends or the CL final.

uptill now the almighty hitv have not deem it to reconnect me back,may i will take legal option.

hi,for those who till are not viewing pls contact the hitv office.or call 01-8998844,8990003-4.

hi senga,even dstv transmit on mpeg2.hitv will soon beadding morechannels on another freq. as soon as eutelsat finisheswithall the technical works.i know that very soon,hitv might be bought by bskyb[newscorp],vigin group or gateway communications.hitv isjust seting the foundation,pls let'sgive them time.

urfriend what do u mean by this "hitv might be bought by bskyb[newscorp],vigin group or gateway communications" shed more light pls

Hi Urfriend
Sure DSTV transmits on MPEG2 and for them to change to MPEG4 for HDTv will be expensive, so I think they will roll it out with HDTV PVR's before the world cup in SA.
I don't think that Murdoch, Virgin or even Gateway would buy HITV in the state that it is in just now and what about this "proudly Nigerian" slogan if they sell out, remember over 50% will have to remain in Nigerian hands to keep the DTH licence.

hi senga,anybody who wants to buy can take upto 70% shares,and till keep 30 for nigerians.they [hitv] have invested millions of dollars in facilities and equipment,and are still buying more.don't forget that this foreign companies like buying into already formed businesses and invest more into them.hitv is seting the foundation.

Hi urfriend,
I think if you check you will find that NBC stipulates that Nigerians must have the majority in a Nigerian DTH platform to have a DTH license, HITV is a Nigerian platform. Any overseas investor would not see any interest in HITV as it stands, they have the EPL and La Liga and not much else. Sport is not the only driver on a platform.
HITV would need to have at least 40,000 subscribers, month on month, just to amortize the money they spent on sport alone (almost $38 million), never mind the millions of US Dollars you say they spent on their playout centers.
GTB must be a very understanding bank!
There are only just over two more years of the EPL left, then they will have to fight Multichoice and maybe even GTV.
Telkom have said once they launch in SA they will be targeting Nigeria and Angola, so maybe they will be in the fight as well.
The future looks interesting for Nigeria, there is only room for two DTH platforms in any one country, lets hope that HITV can remain the second platform.

@ SENGA,
i hate you, i detest you ah ah, whyyyyyyyyyyy

you just dey mumu Urfriend, this is not fair. Education and enlightenment is such a huge disease. haba, i dey go back to school.
lol!
Dude u've said enuff, he who understands will, and he that wont will not, simple.
the year is '08 and its the dawn of a new era, PROUDLY AFRICAN, Naija is so last year (we dont seem to get things executed to the letter).
@ SENGA, are you in London? are u into broadcasting/media/entertainment, if yes; hola at me so we fit talk.

@kashikapor

I like your thoughts, yes I am in London and in the business, I know the Nigerian DTH market very well, I hate to see it in a mess.

I see on the 17th Jan DAAR were awarded a DTH license and are starting a DTH platform in April/May, more fun and games. At least Dr Raymond Dokpesi is a media specialist and a load of experience, it will be interesting to see what their platform is offering. This guy could turn out to be a serious contender to Multichoice as he would have done a lot of research before going into this market. I saw him and his team at MIPCOM talking with quite a few good content providers.

I also understand that Trend want to get back into the market and have taken a transponder on Eutelsats W4 (same as HITV and Multichoice).

There will be only room for two players, who will they be your guess is as good as mine.

hi senga,just like u,i have great hope for broadcasting/dth business in nigeria.it's just that the people at nbc are just taking it too slow.i bet u that telkom or gtv will till have to buy into daar,trendtv or hitv.just like they did with multilinks etc.foreign companies don't start afresh.

hi senga for the records,hitv has now reached 50,000 subscribers.

ah well, i hope Dokpesis platform does well.
i hope they all do well.
if they do well then they'll be creating an enabling environment for us to come in as content providers.

@urfriend

Impressed, 50,000 subscribers, well, well, well that is good news. I would have thought that they would have flatlined by now with anyone interested in football already taken up their subscriptions. I suppose some more would have signed up for the African Nations Cup. Lets see how it progresses after that.

Just checking with a content providers to HITV, they reckon 20,000 subscribers is closer to the truth. If HITV decides to sell then due diligence will find the truth.

@senga
I couldnt agree with you more HDTV is the future and if they want to be part of it they need to step their game up the truth is most people would not touch HITV with a 10 ft pole if not for their premiership coverage

Which way forward HITV??

hi senga,who is the content provider?.am sure the person is giving u november's record.the sell of hitv doubled when they started the 19999 naira promo.and that was far back 2nd of december2008.

whats up fellas. Hitv or low tv or wateva its a pis of s, t the reson is that weneva it stats desrambling. u will feel sorry for the day u purchased it

Hi Ufriend

You could be right it may have been their December figures and it was only DTH.
Understand that Oga was in the smoke (London) this week, after your comments, was he trying to sell off HITV to one of the other DTH operators?
I don't think that HITV is in a good position to be sold, as A-40 said without EPL HITV has nothing to offer.

When GTV launch in Cotonou and they will soon, they are already in Ghana, GTV (that looks like a European quality DTH channels, no blackouts) will include the EPL. FA Cup in English. It could be a major threat the HITV, how many subscribers will buy the STB in Benin/Ghana and watch it "illegally" in Nigeria? GTV is on Eutelsat W4 and that covers all of Nigeria, so the same as Multichoice, HITV dish although using NDS conditional access.
Interesting to see what will happen!

hi senga,do u know what he was doing there?.see hitv has the right for li liga for africa ,which they re sold some to dstv,nba,atp tennis events,serie a,uefa cup,fa cup from 2008 aug. to 2012.summited bid for uefa champions league.just like dstv,hitv now has the structure on in place.they have a state of the art broadcast centre,2 studios.so tell me which operator will not want to buy a share at hitv.all they need to do,is add more to it.for the first time nigeria youth can now get all the latest tools to work with.no other operator as that here.dstv do it's broadcast from s/a,mytv from germany,fstv was in london,gtv in the uk.so pls let's give hitv time,they need the support from everyone.

hi senga,do u know what he was doing there?.see hitv has the right for li liga for africa ,which they re sold some to dstv,nba,atp tennis events,serie a,uefa cup,fa cup from 2008 aug. to 2012.summited bid for uefa champions league.just like dstv,hitv now has the structure on in place.they have a state of the art broadcast centre,2 studios.so tell me which operator will not want to buy a share at hitv.all they need to do,is add more to it.for the first time nigeria youth can now get all the latest tools to work with.no other operator as that here.dstv do it's broadcast from s/a,mytv from germany,fstv was in london,gtv in the uk.so pls let's give hitv time,they need the support from everyone.

Hi Urfriend
It is none of my business why Oga was in london.
I don't disagree with you they have lots of sports content and sure that is great but sport is a driver, not the only driver. 50% of DSTV's subscriber base is not sports. HITV has to come up to the plate for the rest of the population that are not sports fanatics with quality channels that are professionally broadcast. Don't keep blaming Eutelsat they do only what they are told.
Lets look at the real world, when one operator buys another in another country, the first thing it is going to do is rationalise the work which is the same in both countries, it will bring the work back to its own country and operate like Multichoice, then Nigeria is back to the old routine. Another point I believe is that an operator buying out another will want the majority share, its normal, then how would HITV retain the "Proudly Nigerian" slogan.
Operators normally look at the 7 year plan to break even and would look at potential takeovers with that in mind. 18 months from now the EPL will be bringing out the EPL tender again, I think a potential investor would want to see who wins the next EPL round before seriously talking about takeovers.
As you said give HITV time before speaking about takeovers and let them get a diverse platform across the full population.

90% of hitv subscriber base are for sport alone especially EPL.