FX now available on Kenya’s Zuku TV

The male oriented FX channel has been launched in Kenya on pay-TV platform Zuku TV, bringing to six the available offer from Fox International Channels (FIC) now in the East African country.
Kenyan viewers already have access to Fox Entertainment, Baby TV, National Geographic Channel, National Geographic Wild, and National Geographic Adventure.

Kenya’s broadcast market is currently in transition from analogue to digital transmission, which has allowed a number of new private entrants to the scene, including triple play cable operator Zuku TV, operated by the Wananchi Group.

Zuku TV is currently available via cable to higher income families in Nairobi, and plans to roll out its fibre network to urban areas nationwide – as well as launching a satellite TV service in April.

“Given the exciting changes, Kenya is an important country for us to be in, and we see this as our firm entry into the East African market,” said Thandi Davids, regional director, Africa, FIC.

FX has been broadcast in sub-Saharan Africa since May 2010 via Top TV, and the News Corporation subsidiary is now “looking at taking international pay television channels to the continent”. The channel, which carries US series Lie To Me, The Office, The Archer, and The Walking Dead, FIC says, has been well received already in South Africa.

Other entrants to the market challenging Multichoice DSTV’s dominant pan-African satellite TV network include HiTV,StarTimes, My TV and Smart TV – as well as Indian telecommunications and direct to home (DTH) satellite TV operator Airtel, which is reportedly also interested in launching a television platform in Africa.


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PROGRAMMING NOTE:The Booth at the End coming to FOX Entertainment Africa

An interesting, interactive TV puzzle is coming to FOX African viewers from 1 April every night when The Booth at the End will start on Fox Entertainment (HiTV Channel 14) that will have viewers become participants in a mystery that builds step by step as an elusive, mysterious man sets a plan in motion.

The Booth at the End will start on 1 April at 7:15pm Nigerian time with a new episode every night with The Man (Xander Berkeley) is a psychological and mysterious man that sits at the booth at the end of a diner.
People come to him with things they want: a parent with a sick child, a woman who wants to be prettier, a nun who wants to hear God again.The man can make these things happen. For a price. In exchange for what they want, these individuals must sacrifice their morals and do deeds normally inconceivable to them.
Set off a bomb. Rob a bank. Kill a child. They must return to the man and describe every step in detail.
As the characters' tasks begin to overlap, complications ensue. But the man never forces anyone to do anything. It's always up to them to start or stop with one lingering question: how far would you go to get what you want?

Visit http://thebooth.foxafrica.com/ where the special website for Africa is now active and where The Booth at the End will start on 1 April when the show ''the game'' starts.It will clearly involve Facebook and Twitter as social media as well besides just television.

''The Booth at the End is a highly anticipated new multi-platform series and we are very pleased to secure the rights for our audiences around the world,'' says Thandi Davids, director: sales and broadcast of FOX International Channels (FIC) for Africa. She says The Booth at the End has ''an intriguing and globally relevant premise.''



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