Afrotainment

Afrotainment
Owned by Soundview Africa
Picture format 480i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Slogan Your Premier in Afro-centric Home Entertainment
Country United States
Language English
Headquarters New York, NY, United States (also has office in Orlando, Fl)
Website www.afrotainment.us
www.afros.tv
Availability
Satellite
Dish Network Channel 9859
(Afrotainment SD)
Channel 9868
(Africa Box Office SD)
Channel 9870
(Afrotainment Music SD)
Channel 9871
(Oui TV SD)
DirecTV Channel TBA
Cable
Cablevision Channel 1101
(Afrotainment Plus SD)
Verizon FIOS Channel 265
(AFRO)
Channel 266
(ABO)
Videotron (Canada) Channel 269
(Haiti HD)
Frontier Communications
Channel 265
(AFRO)
Channel 266
(ABO)
Bell Fibe TV (Canada) Channel 662
(Afrotainment SD)
Channel 663
(Africa Box Office SD)
Channel 664
(Afrotainment Music SD)
Channel 665
(TV9ja SD)
Streaming media
Sling TV Lifestyle Package
(AFRO)
Roku YEBO
Mizik
OYEEE
AFRICA24 Music
NAIJA Music
CAMER Music
Apple TV YEBO
Amazon Fire TV YEBO

The AFROTAINMENT Family of channels is a New York based network of 9 linear television channels and digital properties (AFRO, Afrotainment, Afrotainment Music, Afro Sports, ABO, OUI TV, TV9JA, HAITI HD, YEBO) dedicated to broadcast the best Afro-Centric content in North America. Our channels are available on Sling TV, DISH Network, Altice USA, Verizon FIOS, Frontier Communications, Bell Fibe, Videotron, Roku, Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV.


History

Afrotainment was created in 2005 by Yves Bollanga, a former IBM Software Engineer and Shafquat Chaudhary [1] Afrotainment, besides being a company involved in TV transmission is also a TV production company that creates Afrocentric content: Films, Scripted and Unscripted content, talk-show, Late night comedy and much more.

Programming

Afrotainment airs films and TV Series from the African and Black diaspora from all over the world. Afrotainment is also producing several hours of content from its Orlando TV Studios: Point of View, a daytime woman talk show; Afrotainers an Entertainment News show, Afrohits Top 10, a chart of the Top10 best Afro-centric Music videos, The Lowdown a Late night Comedy show, Journey an interview like talk show. As per African soccer, Afrotainment broadcast CAF Champions League, CAF Confederation Cup, CAF African Nation Championship, and CAF Youth Championship.

Channels

Soundview Africa currently owns and operates the following 8 TV channels:

Events

Every September the cream of the African music industry gathers at an Afro-glam red carpet event at the Afrotainment Studio in New York to recognise African talent as award winners are announced and celebrated. The Afrotainment Museke Online Africa Music Awards is multicasted Live on the Afrotainment family of channels nationwide in the US and also viewable online.

References

[13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]

  1. ↑ Meet Yves Bollanga, The Man Televising African Home Entertainment in the USA
  2. ↑ Afrotainment launches 4 channels on Bell Canada
  3. ↑ Afrotainment launches Haiti HD on Bell Canada
  4. ↑ Afrotainment launched YEBO, an OTT music video on demand app on
  5. ↑ The Afrotainment Family of Channels launches 2 HD channels on Verizon.
  6. ↑ Verizon launches Afrotainment channels
  7. ↑ Afrotainment expands in Canada with the launch of haiti HD on Videotron
  8. ↑ AFRO brings polycultural Black television to Sling TV
  9. ↑ AFRO, a Polycultural Black Television Network, debuts on Sling TV
  10. ↑ AFRO, a Polycultural Black Television Network, debuts on Sling TV
  11. ↑ Sling TV adds new channel in lifestyle extra
  12. ↑ Sling TV welcomes all black television network
  13. ↑ Cowboy Afro join Sling TV
  14. ↑ Afrotainment expands to africa with the launch of oui tv on startimes
  15. ↑ Afrotainment provides bridge between africa europe new
  16. ↑ Africa 24 partners with afrotainment family of channels
  17. ↑ Afrotainment to launch oui tv on startimes platform in Africa
  18. ↑ Cablevision buttresses international channel lineup
  19. ↑ Afro debuts on Sling TV
  20. ↑ Forbes magazine presents Yves Bollanga the man televising african home entertainment in the usa
  21. ↑ Le cinema camerounais s'exporte aux etats-unis grace a OUI TV
  22. ↑ Yves Bollanga is bringing afro-caribbean content to mainstream US television
  23. ↑ Yves Bollanga. Founder and GM of Afrotainment
  24. ↑ dish-network-adds-french-african-channel Dish Network adds french african channel
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