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hi,nigezie is owned and managed by kwame,not hitv.so take note.

hi kosovo,yes more channels are coming.starting with cnbc africa,foxnews,dovevision,biscon,nigeria,kidsco,setanta sports,kennis music channel,etc, just keep scaning 12130 H 27500.

hi why are u guys always bring down every good thing trying to up?.soundcity is just a programme,nigezie is a full 24 hours channel.they are working on many projects which u will soon start enjoying.soundcity started b4 nigezie,but today nigezie is a 24 hours channel,while soundcity is till dreaming and making too many empty noises.

hi the subtitle for zee cinema in english and french for those with strong.those who are using the hitv decorder subtitle will soon be added to ur decorder.details will be ready soon,

hi bluehorizo,call 07025405091

well for me soundcity is just noise making.they are a tv programme.nigezie is a full 24hours channel and also a tv programme.expect more great programmes from nigezie.

hi all,hitv just added zee cinema on 12130 H 27500.they will be sharing the transponder with gtv till eutelsat launches it's new satellite called eutelsat w7 by mid july 2009.hitv shall add one new channel every week.

hi all,hitv just added zee cinema on 12130 H 27500.they will be sharing the transponder with gtv till eutelsat launches it's new satellite called eutelsat w7 by mid july 2009.hitv shall add one new channel every week.

hi soundcity is just a tv programme.let them start a full tv channel,if it's that easy to set up a full tv channel.it's a long term process.

hi all,uefa just posted this on it's site[www.uefa.com].


HiTV win Nigeria Pay TV rights,

HiTV, a leading Pay TV operator, has been named as the clear winner with their bid for the exclusive Pay TV rights for the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Super Cup and the UEFA Cup in Nigeria.

All broadcast platforms
The rights will be widely exploited across all broadcast platforms ensuring significant exposure. Live matches as well as comprehensive highlights programmes and delayed match coverage will be available on the Hi Soccer and Hi Sports channels. In addition, there will also be a magazine programme featuring a weekly roundup of action, news and events from the UEFA Champions League. Football fans in Nigeria will also be able to enjoy the action via live streaming on the Internet on www.hitv.com.ng and on mobile.

Free-to-air bidding
As part of its deal with HiTV, UEFA may also award rights to a free-to-air broadcaster in Nigeria for UEFA Champions League matches (including the UEFA Champions League final and the UEFA Super Cup) and UEFA Cup matches (including the UEFA Cup final). However, the competitive nature of the bidding is such that the award of these rights has yet to be concluded. UEFA has therefore invited a second round of bidding.

New broadcast partner
"We are pleased to announce a new broadcast partner in the form of HiTV," said UEFA on Monday. "The strength of their offer demonstrates the importance of the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Cup in Nigeria. At the same time, UEFA wishes to thank Supersport, for their contribution to broadcasting the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup in Nigeria in recent seasons. Their partnership with UEFA will continue until the end of the 2008/09 season.

Competitive sales process
"The sales process in sub-Saharan Africa (excluding the Republic of South Africa and Sudan) is proving to be extremely competitive, with UEFA receiving offers from several of the major regional and national broadcasters throughout the continent," said UEFA. TEAM Marketing AG is the exclusive marketing agent of UEFA for the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and UEFA Cup.

hi all,
those of u who say football amount to 20% of the dth business in nigeria,that percentage is dead wrong.football is big business here.to me the real amount is over 60%.dstv has sports,movies,series,entertainment etc, in nigeria for over 14years now and have just over 500,000 subscribers.hitv has football,music and news for 1year and they have over 170,000 subscribers.we are over 140million people in nigeria,it's a free market.people will alway choose what the like[either dstv,hitv,trendtvdaarsat etc].

HI ALL,

HiTV Secures UEFA Champions League Rights
•Carling Cup, UEFA Cup too
By Tunde Sulaiman, 06.09.2008




HiTV, Nigeria’s wholly indigenous Pay TV company, has won the rights to broadcast one of the world’s most lucrative and premier football championships – the UEFA Champions League.
The company, which only commenced full commercial operations late last year, has also landed the rights to the UEFA Cup and English Carling Cup competitions, while it will also now show highlights of the second tier of English football – the Coca-Cola Championship.
Multichoice, the South African Pay TV operator which used to own the rights to UEFA Champions League, EUFA Cup and Carling Cup, lost out in the race for the Nigerian market following the success of HiTV’s bid.
The rights for the four packages, which HiTV has already paid for, are for three years.
HiTV already has three-year broadcast rights to 80 per cent of English Premier League games, the world’s most watched football league, which cover the 2007-2010 seasons.
Although the financial details of the latest deals are not yet known, but from the 2009/2010 season, the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup and Carling Cup, which had hitherto been the preserve of Multichoice, will now only be shown on HiTV.
The deals will last till the 2011/2012 season.
According to sources in the know of the deal, the Lagos-based outfit also outbid African Independent Television (AIT), which is believed to have wanted to use the content to launch its own Pay TV platform.
The latest move is coming on the heels of the stunning coup by HiTV in securing the rights to the very popular English Premier League and the Spanish La Liga from their rivals, Multichoice, operators of DSTV.
HiTv, piloted by Mr. Toyin Subair, winner of THISDAY’s Young Entrepreneur Award last year, immediately crashed the subscription rates of satellite viewing.
With UEFA again tinkering with its flagship tournament for club sides, next season’s Champions League competition will comprise 146 matches (as against 125 currently) whilst the UEFA Cup competition comprises 205 matches (both totalling 351 matches) per season spread across 20 weeks of top flight European football.
The popularity of the Champions League was brought to the fore late last month when Manchester United played Chelsea in the final in Moscow and virtually the whole of Nigeria came to a stand still.
HiTV’s rights to these two competitions also cover mobile phone and internet platforms.

hi femo09,well fromwhat i was told it will be thisweek they will start uplinking channels,starting with zee cinema.on what transponder they will add it to,that we will have to wait and see.

u are to pay nothing to get the dish and lnb.there are installers at hitv.

Hi all,hitv shall be adding one or two channels,from what i was told my a top staff at hitv,it will be next week.

Also u shall be seeing a new studio set for analysis from august.activation will be fast and easier,they just signed a deal with a company called magnaquest[www.magnaquest.net].

hi ayusman16 and sology,look it's between u and ur installer.we all know the cost of fuel is going high and the amount of subscribers on the cable platform is really less.they maintain 4 repeater sites in slere,festac,ikeja and v/i.the cost of fueling those site is high.that's why they are moving all cable sub. to satellite.getting the dish and lnb is free,but for installation u have to speak to to your installer.

hi ilugunboy,well with what i was told,yes.

hi to all those who are on the hitv cable platform,hitv has formally shutdown the service.subscribers on the cable platform are adviced to return the antenna only and get a dish and lnb for free.go to ur dealer or go to hitv office at ebute metta with ur subscription form.u shall be transfered to the satellite platform.

hi ilugunboy,well the reason why,is because SOON can be anytime.

hi soloqy,rahym is very very bizy.he is one of the IT guys at hitv.he is among those working to improve the activation system/process at hitv.

hi ilugunboy,i heard they will soon be re-locating to a new place.

hi bluehorizo,g africa,g series and kidsco belong to gtv/gbs[www.gtv.tv][freq 12130H27500],WHILE bet,ngwild,trace and inspiration tv below to dstv[12169H27500].THEY ARE NOT FREE.for bet it's not meant for us in nigeria yet.

hi ilugunboy,yes it has improved.send ur mails based on the issues at hand to the above mentioned mail addresses.

hi ilugunboy and all,please do send all complain on payments,subscriptions,activation etc,to info@hientertainment.tv.

for sports send it to sports@hientertainment.tv

hi senga,well the deal of dstv with discovery is breaking up,because hitv has signed on discovery civiliazation.well for the epl,after the 18months has u said,we will fine out who will get it.hitv already has the uefa champions league,uefa cup,uefa super cup,carling cup,coca cola championship all from next year august 2009.that's to tell up that they are planning for the future,that don't mean they[hitv] will not work to improving activation,contents and adding more channels.

hi senga,dstv did offer 22million.has for getting chioce contents,with time and at the rate hitv is growing in subscriber rate,especially in one country[nigeria] in just 1year,were it is taking dstv just 14years to get about 500,000 in nigeria.there will be no content provider that will be want to air it's channel or content on hitv.soon we will have discovery,nat. geo.,history,cnn,etc on both dstv,hitv gtv and any other.

last year,dstv was about living uganda[with just 6,000 sub.] because there was not profit from that country,then came gtv to uganda,today gtv has well over 28,000 sub. in that country alone.the dth business is growing fast in africa and very soon,many of the chioce content will be on other platforms[because profit and viewership wise it will pay them].

hi tosinadeda,are u listening to urself.even a blindman will know that if a decorder shows 'no channel' it means that the channels on the decorder were deleted of some pressed factory deflut on the menu list,that way all former setting not put in by the factory will be removed or deleted.so i advice u to re-scan and stop blaming hitv for everything that happens in ur house.by the way am not mad and very stupid,so pls mind ur words.do have ur self a nice weekend.

hi senga,i said hitv has been given a new transponder by eutelsat,and were told if they they or anyone needed more they will have to wait till next year june/july.

for the epl,dstv bidded 22million dollars while hitv bidded 28million.how is that way over the top.remember it is a bidding process,and it's a competition.gone are the days were dstv goes and get rights and contents at give a way prices.daar won the rights to all nigeria national teams matches,they offered nfa N250million x 4years[N1billion],their next bidding partner offered 180million naira.

let's wait and see till when daarsat starts.the order day,dopeksi was saying he want to go into partnership with hitv.they want to get contents for nigerian region to stop the anti-competition moves of dstv.

senga,the epl signal is gotten by hitv via satellite dish,the spread over 5-6 decoders,given to hitv by the epl guys[that way the can show many matches at the same time.hitv has a transmission/broadcast centre in lagos,there they send there signals feed to overon in spain,then overon uplinks for hitv to eutelsat in france.

note hitv has gotten many new channels,all that is left is for the technical work to be finished by eutelsat on the new transponder.

hi senga,hitv has gotten a second transponder from eutelsat.they are working on some technical issues b4 uplinking/loading channels.note that hitv will not sign and pay for channels when there are no space to put them.for the epl hitv receives it's feed from the premierleague guys direct and not from it's current transponder.

senga,how far with ur dth runs?,when will ur guys start and who are they?.

hi soloqy,i understand how u feel.see hitv are currently working with eutelsat on the new transponder they just got.ifeel soon the signed channels[kidsco,zee cinema,foxnews,discovery civiliazation,setanta africa,bet and some others not yet confirmed.]will soon be uplinked by hitv.

eutelsat will also by the second quarter of 2009 launch a new satellite with 70ku transponder[called eutelsat w7,to be located with eutelsat w4,36 degrees east].so for now all hitv will get this year is 1 transponder,but once the new satellite is launched next year hitv dstv and gtv will have more then enough.so pls let's give them time.

sology u should note that just like gtv,hitv is also in discussions with many content,right and channel holders.till an agreement is reach,nothing can be announed or added.

hi tosinadeda,if ur decorder is saying no channel,what has hitv got to do with that?.is it hitv that made someone in ur house to delete all the channels.i advice u to re-scan ur system and all the channels will come back.

hi sology,well hitv must not show everything,they have the uefa champions league,carling cup,coca cola championship,league 1 and 2,serie a,copa liber.,la liga,epl,etc.has a new and young company,they are getting long term investments.euro 2008 is just 3weeks,after that the money dstv paid to uefa would expire.there are till many sporting events[f1,moto gp,tennis grand slams,atp/wta events,iaaf,etc],thet they hitv,are waiting to bid for when it's time to bid for them.that don't mean they will not bring more programmes,contents,and channels.note that with over 164,230 subscribers as at may 13th 2008,each and every one of them have one or two demands that hitv has to work on,so please give them time.