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Access to Satellite TV for 10,000 African Villages is a China–Africa cooperation project that aims to reduce the digital divide in African rural areas by giving villages access to digital television. As of April 2019, projects had been completed in sixteen sub-Saharan countries.
The first satellite TV systems were a now-obsolete type known as television receive-only. These systems received weaker analog signals transmitted in the C-band (4–8 GHz) from FSS type satellites, requiring the use of large 2–3-meter dishes. Consequently, these systems were nicknamed "big dish" systems, and were more expensive and less ...
Despite being the most economically advanced country on the continent, South Africa did not introduce TV until 1976, owing to opposition from the apartheid regime. Nigeria was one of the first countries in Africa to introduce television, in 1959, followed by Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) in 1961, while Zanzibar was the first in Africa to introduce colour television, in 1973.
The first locally produced TV programmes in South Africa were in English and Afrikaans. English-language programmes include the family drama series The Dingleys and The Villagers , [ 57 ] as well as comedy series Biltong and Potroast , featuring South African and British comedians, [ 58 ] and variety programme The Knicky Knacky Knoo Show . [ 59 ]
Thanks to the new contract with Eutelsat, DStv vastly improved its channel offer by starting Ku-band signals in West Africa, as well as the inclusion of new Lusophone channels in Angola and Mozambique (RTP Internacional – already in South Africa up until then, SIC Internacional and TV Globo Internacional), three channels from India (Sony ...
Other community-based stations are also on offer, such as Soweto TV and Cape Town TV (ctv). DStv is currently South Africa's only operating and Africa's largest satellite television provider. The company provides over 100 video and over 78 audio channels, and in 2008 introduced its first HD video channel.
My Channel Africa is an Angolan pay television channel, owned by Grupo Record. It is available via satellite, through the operator DStv (channel 515, in HD and SD definitions), and on cable television, through the operator TV Cabo (channel 13), for some provinces of Angola and Mozambique.