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PaulJohn1:
Who owns CONSAT? A Nigerian?

CONSAT joins Nigerian pay-TV sector, adds FilmBox to channel roster
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Rebecca Hawkes
| 20 June 2014
Nigeria's latest pay-TV platform Continental Satellite Limited (CONSAT) has this week marked its official launch in Lagos and added seven channels from SPI International to its satellite bouquet.

SPI International channels FilmBox, FilmBox Arthouse, FightBox, DocuBox, FashionBox, Fast&FunBox and 360 TuneBox are now available to CONSAT TV subscribers in Nigeria, as well as in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.

The MPEG4-based digital TV platform currently carries around 50 channels, and hopes to double this figure by 2015.

CONSAT, which is owned by former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is seeking to offer satellite TV for middle and low income earners, by allowing subscribers to only pay for the channels they want to watch.

"As a consequence of (the) digital migration and the lead up to 2015, it is clear that the number of households that require a decoder will grow considerably. Currently, there are about two million active subscribers in Nigeria, yet we have in excess of 20 million homes," said Mayokun Okunola, CEO, CONSAT.

"We truly appreciate CONSAT's mission to respond to the growing needs of Nigerians to offer a common platform for digital TV transmission and we are very proud to deliver our unique and top quality line-up of TV channels to CONSAT subscribers," said Berk Uziyel, executive director, Filmbox International.

Addy Awofisayo, director of content, CONSAT, added: "Our content providers are very passionate; we plan on developing our own content. It is our mandate to air contents from Nigeria and take it across the world; we will continue to invest in content."

The CONSAT decoder is available for NGN14,999 (US$92) with a two-month free subscription and free installation. Its channels are broadcast across the region from Eutelsat's 16° East orbital slot.

Source: http://www.rapidtvnews.com/2014062034157/consat-joins-nigerian-pay-tv-sector-adds-filmbox-to-channel-roster.html

Shine1177:
Those that love the people's General has started advising him. What a candid advice.

Fresh Air everywhere.

nigerianvenom:
Not just 6yrs,he's bin there for 10yrs.u are an improper foool.
Keep pushing ur buhari and we will keep rejecting him.
U can never market a bad product to learned people,except to zoombies like u.

nigerianvenom:
Anyone that support GEJ is a paid agent while those of u that blindly and foooolishly support buhari claims u are bin patriotic.
Blind bats

mikeansy:
[s]This is not about my candidates or the other persons candidates. This is about defence of our democracy and our aspiration for the kind if nation we want to be.

A vote for Buhari right now is an invitation to current soldiers to plot a coup and usurp democracy! After all they can come 20years later and pretend to be democrats!

We could be setting very dangerous precedents with our votes![/s]

mikeansy:
Yes just like you have one vote but still comment on a public forum I have the right to do same.

It is also my patriotic duty to expose Buhari for the fraud and criminal he is.

There is a reason he has failed 3 times and will fail again.

The man is a fraud, if you don't like me saying it you can go hang yourself!

yinksboi:
#NoToHijab. There must be Uniformity and not divergent interests.

salykely:
And what is the meaning of to manifest as used in the constitution. The constitution also made mention of public and private. Pls does hijab disturb Christians

neuljosh:
BUHARI is a loser so no need waiting time arguing about him winning against GEJ. Even if u choices Allah as VP he's yet going to fail. Who needs a fanatic as a Nigerian President. I would rather have a Dictator than a religious fanatic like BUhari

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He really wants flights from West Africa to the US to stop. Thank God Obama doesn't share his sentiments...

olapluto:
Poll closed just as GEJ surpassed GMB by 1%.
Reno Omokri. - 2 minutes ago
to be fair, GMB won the poll.... I am only manipulating the result to please Jonathan.. I don't want to lose my job. As you can see, the pool increase every 10seconds to favour of jonathan. multiple voting is also allowed. I have voted for jonathan like 10,000 times. but the true poll shows that Buhari will win

I can't stop laughing at the fraud.

vanbonattel:
I say again, Buhari is a huge joke, Jonathan will have the easiest win ever, who will vote for an 89 years great grand father. Is he the best you can dig up,?

Oh now, Buhari is a joke. It's no longer about muslim/muslim ticket?

vanbonattel:
of course its a Muslim party, they can win with two muslims, all muslim cabinet and defence chiefs, with sharia for the whole country as jara

MissMeiya:
You have veered tragically from your original post. When you reread your own post and remind yourself of what you were talking about, we can continue.

What to expect from a religious bigot.

Just keep reading my posts, I know it will help free your brain from the shackles of your religion.

MissMeiya:
You wrote all that, for what? You don't know how to have a point? Sorry, you suck at debate. Start over, and address relevant points, from my post. Otherwise, you didn't need to quote me.

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